Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, emphasized that the CMS action "doesn't change hospitals' legal obligations, but it does add to the fear, confusion, and dangerous delays patients and providers have...
But people are still being sterilized against their will today—namely, disabled people under guardianship, and people in prisons or jails. “The story that we're told about forced sterilization is that it's something that was confined to this...
“To be clear: This action doesn’t change hospitals’ legal obligations, but it does add to the fear, confusion and dangerous delays patients and providers have faced since the fall of Roe v. Wade,” said Fatima Goss Graves, president...
That statement, which was joined by leaders of the National Women’s Law Center and Democracy Forward, said pulling the guidance does not change providers’ legal obligation and will sow confusion that endangers pregnant patients. “Stripping...
Health advocates like Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, say those fears have now materialized. She warned in a statement that the CMS’s move to rescind the guidance “will...
The ACLU, Democracy Forward and the National Women’s Law Center, organizations that have advocated for pregnant people’s right to an abortion, were also critical of the new decision, characterizing it as “caving to its anti-abortion...
