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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. By 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. By 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. By 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. By 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. By Jessica Arons
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. By Sally Steenland, Eleni Towns
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. By 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. By Jessica Arons
August 24, 2011

Latinas in Action

This year’s Latina Week of Action focused on the link between access to reproductive health care and immigration reform. By Lorena Garcia

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CAP’s policy priorities for U.S. domestic policymaking center on building opportunities for all Americans to share in the American Dream. Our policy work concentrates on the core engines that drive equal opportunity and shared prosperity—education, health care, government oversight, poverty, women's rights. Our progressive domestic priorities underscore our commitment to government that works for the common good.