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.
Ohio's top lawyer says that Big Pharma helped fuel the opioid epidemic. A Michigan farmer wants the right to sell his fruit and discriminate against same-sex couples. And progressives are trying hard to keep Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court.
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.”
Like many of the women and people of color in our community, my wife and I have had to become a bit more resourceful for our souls' sake, throughout this violent raking of our civil rights and erasure of our identities.
Chinese businesses buy a condom manufacturer for $600 million, and robbers recently stole 30,000 condoms from a Vegas warehouse that offered a lot of protection, but apparently little security.
“This policy does nothing to protect the privacy rights of each individual student vis-à-vis students who share similar anatomy, and it ignores the practical reality of how Ash, a transgender boy, uses the bathroom: by entering a stall and closing the door,” Judge Ann Claire Williams wrote for the unanimous three-judge panel.
With this latest budget request, Sessions’ DOJ is signaling to move resources away from the types of cases and investigations that affect more vulnerable members of U.S. society.
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.
Advocating for access to abortion through an economic frame is ineffective and does nothing to advance the host of economic justice issues Democrats must also tackle.
