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Obama Administration to Keep Emergency Contraception Off Store Shelves
Jessica Arons explains why the Obama administration’s decision to deny over-the-counter access to emergency contraception is misguided.
A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything
Women as half of all workers changes everything, and is the key piece to understanding why we are in a transformational moment.
The Persistent Career Wage Gap
Women make less than men day-to-day, but this interactive map shows how this stacks up so that women in every state earn hundreds of thousands of dollars less over their lifetimes.
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
January 26, 2012
Contraceptive Coverage Rule Is a Big Win for Students
College students will get affordable reproductive care thanks to a new regulation in the Affordable Care Act, explains Lucy Panza.
January 20, 2012
Reproductive Rights on the Brink as Roe Turns 39
Bait-and-switch tactics by conservative politicians threaten to further undermine the protections of the Supreme Court’s seminal abortion rights case, writes Jessica Arons.
December 20, 2011
Rape and the Arab Spring
While women throughout the Middle East have played crucial roles in the Arab Spring uprisings, they have also been subject to high levels of sexual violence and rape, writes Elizabeth Marcus.
November 29, 2011
Faith and Reproductive Justice Leadership Institute
The Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative at the Center for American Progress is seeking a diverse group of faith-based leaders to lend their voice, commitment, and leadership to the reproductive health, rights, and justice movement.
November 9, 2011
Mississippi Fast Facts
Much remains for Mississippi to do about children in crisis across the state, says Jessica Arons.
November 9, 2011
Mississippians Rightfully Reject Personhood Amendment
Jessica Arons applauds the wisdom of the majority of Mississippians, but notes that much remains for them to do about children in crisis across the state.
November 3, 2011
Progressive Faith Groups Need to Speak Up Against Personhood Amendment in Mississippi
Far-right religious organizations are claiming the holy high ground in an effort to pass a measure that would make a fertilized egg a person, write Sally Steenland and Eleni Towns. Faith and secular groups must work together to defeat it.
September 30, 2011
A Tale of Two Countries: The Hyde Amendment Turns 35
The amendment banning Medicaid coverage of abortion turns 35 as more women enter poverty and unintended pregnancies among poor women grow, writes Jessica Arons.
September 30, 2011
Una historia de dos países: la Enmienda Hyde cumple 35 años
La enmienda que prohíbe la cobertura del aborto por el Medicaid cumple 35 años a medida que más mujeres entran en la pobreza y los embarazos no deseados entre las mujeres pobres van en aumento, escribe Jessica Arons.
August 24, 2011