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Medicare Barely Covers Contraception, Making Birth Control Unaffordable for Many Disabled Women: New Study

Nearly a century ago, a notorious 1927 Supreme Court case called Buck v. Bell legally sanctioned the forced sterilization of people deemed “feebleminded,” a category that explicitly included people with disabilities. The case originated with...

US Olympic & Paralympic Committee Issues Ban on Transgender Women Athletes

"By giving into the political demands, the USOPC is sacrificing the needs and safety of its own athletes," National Women's Law Center president and CEO Fatima Goss Graves said in a statement condemning the policy...

How John Legend Gives His All

The couple has been active in the fight for reproductive freedom and immigration rights. In 2018, they donated $200,000 to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund and $288,000 to the ACLU to support immigrant families...

Citing Providence lawsuit, AG Bonta pursues statewide survey of hospital emergency compliance

“We support Attorney General Bonta taking action to ensure hospitals across California comply with the Emergency Services Law,” K.M. Bell, senior litigation counsel at the National Women’s Law Center and attorney for Nusslock, said in...

How WNBPA’s All-Star shirts came to be amid CBA negotiations

The players are what is building this brand and this league," Collier said. "There is no league without the players, and past, present, the ones coming up, they're the ones that have put in the...

Without public notice, U.S. Olympic officials exclude transgender women from competing

Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the nonprofit National Women’s Law Center, condemned the policy change in a statement. “The world is watching with alarm at the loss of freedom and opportunity in our...