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Future Choices
This report from Jessica Arons explores the symbiotic relationship between assisted reproductive technology and the law and implications for policy.
More than a Choice
This report presents a vision of reproductive rights that broadens the current discourse beyond the stagnant abortion debate.
Women's Health Leadership Network
The WHLN represent a new generation of leaders in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements and is part of the Center’s efforts to cultivate and promote emerging progressive voices and visions.Other Women's Health & Rights Features
June 8, 2009
Helping Breadwinners When It Can’t Wait
Heather Boushey lays out a progressive program that would guarantee Americans access to paid family and medical leave, giving a boost to workers, employers, and the economy.
June 1, 2009
Mourning Dr. George Tiller
Today we mourn the loss of Dr. George Tiller, a great progressive who was gunned down at his church Sunday morning.
May 30, 2009
Who Is Wise?
David Abromowitz responds to an attack on Sonia Sotomayor from a Princeton alumnus claiming that her nomination is another signal that the university is becoming too female.
April 30, 2009
Infographic: The Importance of Women Breadwinners
The Chrysler bankruptcy highlights layoffs among male manufacturing and retail workers, such as car salesmen, notes Heather Boushey in an analysis of recent unemployment data.
April 29, 2009
The Question of Conscience
A panel of experts joined CAP to discuss conscience or refusal clauses and how they currently do not protect patients’ consciences or rights to access care.
April 28, 2009
Slideshow: A Timeline of Federal Health Refusal Rules
This slideshow documents how health providers’ privileges have grown over time, but the Bush ruling pushes them to a frightening, new level.
April 28, 2009
Putting President Obama’s “Conscience” Proposal in Context
Bush’s sweeping midnight rule to allow health providers to deny care and information for almost any reason was a big step away from prior laws and ethical guidelines, write Jessica Arons and Sarah Dreier.
April 28, 2009
Guidelines for Resolving Conflicts of Conscience
When moral questions arise in health care, these five principles can guide caregivers in providing patients with the care they need while allowing for personal ethics.
April 27, 2009
Why Aren’t We There Yet?
An Equal Pay Day 2009 primer on the wage gap from Jessica Arons, Heather Boushey, and Lauren Smith.
April 22, 2009
Will Economic Trends Change Family Dynamics?
CAP Action's Heather Boushey testifies to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on how women's increasing role as the family breadwinner may necessitate policy changes.
April 20, 2009
Maria Shriver Discusses "A Woman's Nation" on NBC
California first lady and scion of the Kennedy political legacy Maria Shriver talks to the NBC Nightly News about why the country needs to be educated about women and the challenges they face.
April 15, 2009
A Woman's Nation
Maria Shriver, in partnership with the Center for American Progress, launches a project on the modern American woman.
March 13, 2009
Moving the Movement
Was Roe vs. Wade, once seen as a great victory for reproductive freedom, actually the beginning of the end for the women's movement?
March 9, 2009
More than Words for Women's Rights
On International Women’s Day, governments must recommit to protecting reproductive rights as human rights, writes Jacqueline Nolley Echegaray.
March 3, 2009
Encouraging Family-Friendly Workplace Policies
CAPAF Senior Economist Heather Boushey testifies before the House Committee on Education and Labor on how workplaces can help families.
February 4, 2009
Why the Fair Pay Act Isn't Enough
January 29, 2009
President Obama Signs Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
President Obama shows his commitment to women’s rights and economic security in signing his first bill, but there is still more work to be done.
January 23, 2009
President Obama Rescinds Devastating International Family Planning Restriction
President Obama today helped women around the world by rescinding a policy that reduced access to family planning and limited free speech on abortion.
January 22, 2009
Shifting Ground
Social conservatives and progressives should concentrate on what unites us, write Jessica Arons and Shira Saperstein on the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
January 22, 2009
Equal Pay for Breadwinners
New report from Heather Boushey finds that more men are jobless while women earn less for equal work.
January 15, 2009
Six Reasons Why Equal Pay Is Still Important
The current financial crisis makes it more important than ever for Congress to guarantee that all workers receive a fair and equal wage.
January 9, 2009
House Passes Pay Equity Legislation
The Center for American Progress applauds the House of Representatives for passing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act today.
January 8, 2009
Fair Pay Is Critical as the Recession Deepens
Congress is taking up key equal pay legislation just when Americans need it the most, writes Heather Boushey.
January 6, 2009
Wage Gap by the Numbers
Women are still earning only 78 cents on a man’s dollar, but two bills before Congress could help narrow the gap.
December 18, 2008
Standing in the Way of Fair Pay
Jessica Arons discusses why the career wage gap matters and how to ensure equal pay for women.
December 9, 2008
Equal Benefits for Women
The Supreme Court this week will hear arguments on whether women should retroactively receive retirement benefits for pregnancy leave, write Alexandra Cawthorne and Stephanie Gross.
November 18, 2008
An Evolving Landscape: Reproductive Genetics, New Technologies
The rapid advancement of reproductive science, fueled by such major events as the completion of the human genome project in April 2003 and marked by technologies such as preimplantation genetic diagnosis, has brought a sea of change in health care that has already begun to impact our lives.
November 6, 2008
Voters Reject Divisive Politics by Defeating Abortion Ballot Measures
Jessica Arons of CAPAF lauds voters for rejecting divisive politics by voting down abortion ballot measures in South Dakota, Colorado, and California.
October 8, 2008
The Straight Facts on Women in Poverty
Women are more likely to be poor than men, but Alexandra Cawthorne outlines solutions that would help.
August 20, 2008
Victory in California
California Supreme Court rules doctors cannot discriminate against gays and lesbians in providing services.
August 13, 2008
Tackling Discrimination Head On
Kate Bell on a new study from the UK showing that discrimination may account for up to two-thirds of the wage difference between men and women.
August 6, 2008
A Missing Piece of the Prevention Puzzle
We can no longer afford to ignore the role of sexual violence in teen pregnancy, writes Malika Saada Saar.
August 4, 2008
Have We Come a Long Way Baby?
Forty-five years after John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, women still lag behind men in wages earned.
July 15, 2008
Leadership, Not Scapegoats
"America's Leadership Team" blames immigrants and population growth for environmental woes while ignoring the complex truth about these connections.
July 15, 2008
Liderazgo, No Chivos Expiatorios
July 14, 2008
Term Limits: Our National Obsession With Late-Term Abortion
The debate over late-term abortion has lasted long enough. It is a straw man designed to undermine our trust in women.
June 16, 2008
Our Failed Child Welfare System
Malika Saada Saar on how Texas bungled the polygamist sect case and how they could have protected children and mothers.
May 13, 2008
Who's Your Mama?
Jessica Arons examines how new technologies are re-defining motherhood.
May 8, 2008
Think Again: The Costs of Enforced Sexual Ignorance
A Texas Monthly study reveals again that abstinence-only education doesn't work, writes Eric Alterman.
April 25, 2008
Fair Pay is a Better Way
Fair wages are a better way to improve women's economic security than government promotion of marriage, write Jessica Arons and Alexandra Cawthorne.
March 27, 2008
What’s Not Being Said About Sex—And Who It’s Hurting
Abstinence-only programs are contributing to higher-than-ever rates of sexually transmitted infections among teen girls, writes Julie F. Kay.
January 22, 2008
Roe v. Wade: The Next 35 Years
Our world is changing, and we must take the time now to determine what the right to choose means in the 21st century, writes Jessica Arons.
December 18, 2007
Assisted Reproduction and Reproductive Justice
Experts at a CAP event discuss the implications of Jessica Arons’s new report on assisted reproductive technologies and the law.
December 17, 2007
Parentage Determinations
December 17, 2007
Insurance Coverage of Infertitlity Treatments
December 17, 2007
Disposition of Frozen Embryos
December 17, 2007
Assisted Reproductive Technologies: A Glossary
December 17, 2007
Guide to State Surrogacy Laws
November 30, 2007
World AIDS Day 2007
A by the numbers look at HIV and AIDS shows that hard work over recent years has brought good news, but there is still a lot of work to be done.
November 24, 2007
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