With Obamacare under attack by the Trump administration and congressional Republicans, state legislators are emerging as defenders of the health-care law's no-copay requirement on contraceptives.
A Democratic aide warned that HHS appointees' “history of spreading misinformation” about abortion care and birth control “could be replicated now that they’re working in these official capacities.”
Democrats in the state Senate must stop training their fire on each other, ceding control to Republicans, and pretending it's someone else's job to build a progressive majority.
Protecting abortion access for her, especially as conservatives try to push the definition of "life" earlier and earlier, feels just as immediately personal as fighting for my own bodily autonomy.
“They’re asking someone who’s charged with protecting abortion providers from terrorism to continue a public smear campaign that promotes anti-choice terrorism,” said Erin Matson, co-founder and co-director of Reproaction.
Gov. Eric Greitens (R) wants GOP lawmakers to push through legislation that would prevent cities and municipalities from passing reproductive rights protections.
Rewire chatted with the Democratic candidates vying for the party’s nomination ahead of the state’s June 13 primary. Their records on reproductive rights in particular have remained in the spotlight.
The draft interim final rule echoes Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price’s belief that “there’s not one” woman who can’t afford birth control.
