Barbara and David Green, the founders of Hobby Lobby, have filed suit over the Affordable Care Act birth control benefit, claiming it infringes on the religious freedom of a company they say was built on Christian values, though the company's health insurance policies have to date covered birth control.
Reverend Howard Moody died this week, a Texan-turned-New Yorker who helped thousands of women obtain safe abortions before Roe v. Wade. Reverend Moody and his colleagues made rules for themselves, too, forbidding counselors from showing “any judgment” about a woman’s reasons for needing an abortion.
The persistent failure to recognize abortion provision as “conscientious” has resulted in laws that do not protect caregivers who are compelled by their conscience to provide abortion services.
If we are truly committed to communities of color, it is imperative that reproductive health and justice communities work to expand access to health care for low-income people.
NARAL Pro-Choice America may have taken away Roraback's "pro-choice" label, but he says he's still ready to support a woman's right to choose, even if his party won't.
Today, in a striking decision, the Virginia Board of Health allowed lies, ideology, and politics to triumph over medical science and the rights of women when it imposed medically-unnecessary restrictions on reproductive health providers.
