issue: Health

‘Viagra for Women’ Gets Push for F.D.A. Approval

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Andrew Pollack writes for The New York Times: “About 10 percent of American women suffer from a lack of desire that causes distress, according to a survey conducted by an academic researcher but financed by Boehringer Ingelheim, the original developer of flibanserin. The drug, taken daily, would be for premenopausal women whose loss of desire was not from known causes like disease or the side effect of a drug.

Dr. Goldstein said it was gender bias to categorize male sexual dysfunctionas a simple physical problem and women’s as complex, psychological and unamenable to drugs.”

NOW Foundation Joins Amicus Briefs in Supreme Court Cases

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1. Marriage Equality: Obergefell v. Hodges, Tanco v. Haslam, DeBoer v. Snyder, Bourke v. Beshear
2. Pregnancy Discrimination: Young v. United Parcel Service
3. Women’s Access to Health Insurance Coverage: King v. Burwell
4. Domestic Violence and Housing: Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc.
5. Marriage Equality Cases That Have Been Decided: Kitchen v. Herbert, and Bishop v. Smith

Supreme Court Health Insurance Coverage Case: King v. Burwell

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Only 13 states set up a state-facilitated Health Exchange in accordance with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), leaving 37 states with a federally-facilitated Health Exchange. Health Exchanges are where individuals and families can apply to receive health insurance coverage under the ACA and where many can also qualify for subsidies via tax credits to help pay premiums. If the Supreme Court decides “wrongly” (in our view) in King v. Burwell, some eight to 10 million persons would likely lose their health insurance in these states because many would lose the subsidies that have made their insurance affordable.

How Low Can The Republican-Led Senate Go?

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Senate legislation intended to increase penalties for human trafficking and provide additional support for survivors was revealed to be a stalking horse for yet more attacks by Senate Republicans against some of the most vulnerable women and girls.

NOW Calls on Roberts Court Not to Gut the Affordable Care Act

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NOW calls on the Roberts Court to set aside political ideology, respect the structure and purpose of the ACA, and read its relevant sections together instead of in a vacuum. For those Justices so consumed with hate for Obamacare that they will grasp at any straw to undo it, we have a suggestion: run for Congress yourselves.