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Anita Hill at the New Rules Summit: Leaders have to step up

Since #MeToo went viral a year and a half ago, victories have spanned the cultural and the concrete, and “that’s exciting,” said Fatima Goss Graves, the president of the National Women’s Law Center and a...

With ‘Roe’ on the line, some Democrats seek federal codification of abortion rights

Leila Abolfazli, director of federal reproductive rights at the National Women’s Law Center, told Rewire.News that when discussing the codification of Roe, “language is important because, especially in the moment we’re in right now, I think it’s really...

USWNT fights for equal pay as it fights to defend World Cup title

Notes Neena K. Chaudhry, senior counsel of the Washington-based National Women’s Law Center: “You can’t just say, ‘The market doesn’t want to pay women as much without asking, ‘How much are the women being supported?...

Advocates vow to fight Trump rollback of transgender protections

“The Trump-Pence Administration is sanctioning blatant discrimination in health care by attempting to reverse the landmark health care rights law,” said Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center. “We are...

Trump is gutting health care protections for transgender people and those who have had abortions

Gretchen Borchelt, vice president for reproductive rights and health at the National Women’s Law Center, told BuzzFeed News that the Obama-era regulation was “the first time we had this broad of a civil rights law...

Who does Alabama’s abortion ban affect most? Experts explain the law’s disproportionate impact

Heather Shumaker, senior counsel at the National Women's Law Center, agrees that economic status and geographic location both play a huge role when it comes to access to safe abortions. She says that near-total abortion...