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Supreme Court Idaho Opinion Leaves Abortion as Health Care Unresolved

“It seems this is leaving the situation unresolved,” says Gretchen Borchelt, vice president for reproductive rights and health at the National Women’s Law Center in Washington, DC. “Doctors and patients were hoping this case would...

Column: This huge insurer got caught breaking a law protecting contraceptive access, but its fine is a joke

A couple more bits of bad news: Not only is UnitedHealth a “repeat offender” in breaching contraception access laws (in the words of Gretchen Borchelt of the National Women’s Law Center), but it’s also not...

Abortion Nod in EEOC Pregnancy Rule Draws Conflicting Decisions

“The swath of challenges to the rulemaking by the EEOC only serves to put more workers in a position where they are unsure of what their rights are and to increase confusion” for workers and...

San Diego woman says CVS pharmacist refused to fill misoprostol prescription

A sternly worded letter from the National Women’s Law Center demands that CVS Health take immediate steps to ensure access to reproductive drugs after a CVS pharmacist allegedly told a local woman “I’m not comfortable dispensing it...

All the Single Ladies … Shouldn’t Struggle to Pay Rent

Single women—particularly single women of color—are far more likely than single men to be severely cost-burdened by housing by Talia Grossman Chantelle Mitchell knows the fear of living paycheck to paycheck and constantly worrying about...

Why don’t parental leave laws protect pregnant elected officials?

It’s a situation that Laura Narefsky, an attorney with the National Women’s Law Center, said “feels too familiar to many women working in this country.” In 2020, the challenges of being a working mom in...