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As The COVID-19 Persists, We Must Remember All That Accessible Reproductive Healthcare Does For Women And The LGBTQIA+ Community

Posted by Kim on 10/23/2020

Since 1995, over one thousand state laws aimed at limiting access to reproductive health services have been adopted in the United States. Over the course of the last few years alone, Donald Trump and his administration have engaged in an unparalleled e Read more...

Drastic Changes to Title IX Protections – Students Beware

Posted by Kim on 10/14/2020

Earlier this year, the Department of Education released Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ Title IX revised rule on sexual harassment which greatly limits the responsibilities of schools to respond to reports of sexual harassment and assault. NOW and ove Read more...

Six Months Into the COVID-19 Pandemic, Women of Color Face Serious Challenges

Posted by Prince on 09/18/2020

Note: Immediate nutritional, health care, housing and financial assistance is required. Congress must pass additional COVID-19 relief legislation. Without this help tens of millions of women and children could become homeless, without income and food, Read more...

Mrs. America – Series Recap

Posted by Kim on 08/12/2020

As I read the recent op-ed from Gloria Steinem and Eleanor Smeal in the Los Angeles Times this weekend, I couldn’t help but be struck by how much Mrs. America really did get wrong. With Phyl Read more...

Mail-in Abortion Care During the Pandemic: A Reproductive Rights Victory

Posted by Kim on 07/15/2020

A federal court ruled on Monday, July 13, that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must suspend a rule requiring that patients seeking medication abortion—a combination of two drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol—must pick it up from their abortion c Read more...