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Missouri clergy drop lawsuit challenging abortion ban after Amendment 3 win

Lawyers from Americans United for Separation for Church and State and the National Women’s Law Center represented the group. The coalition had planned to appeal a ruling from a St. Louis judge that ruled the ban...

Matt Gaetz’s Accusers ‘Relieved’ by Nomination Withdrawal

Emily Martin, the chief program officer at the National Women's Law Center, said Gaetz was "right to withdraw his name for consideration" but that the House Ethics Committee should still release the report into the...

Trump’s Education Secretary Pick Named in Sexual Abuse Lawsuit

“All students deserve to go to school and have the right to learn and grow without fear of harassment or discrimination,” Gaylynn Burroughs, the vice president of education and workplace justice at the National Women’s...

Inside the effort to ban trans women from sports: Who’s involved and what they’re doing at SJSU and beyond

“They’re just wrong,” National Women’s Law Center Senior Director Shiwali Patel said in a phone interview. “Courts have recognized over and over again, citing to the Supreme Court, that Title IX is broad in its...

With a Republican trifecta in Washington, a new era of college oversight is on its way

Shiwali Patel, who worked as an attorney in the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights during the Obama administration and resigned during Trump's first term, said she worries about the plans Republicans have for her former...

Dr. Oz, Who Thinks All Abortion Is ‘Murder,’ Could Now Have Power Over Abortion Access

Katie O’Connor, the senior director of federal abortion policy at the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), told Jezebel the organization is “incredibly troubled” by Oz’s nomination. “This country is in the midst of a serious and...