Candidates Matter, Conservative Feminists, Women Not Girls
The race for United States Senate in Nevada is on! And Nevada women need to pay attention. Sharron Angle has made her position clear time and again: Her religious beliefs are more important than your health.
Three out of four women in Nevada can’t afford health care for themselves and their families. In Nevada, over 149,000 women need publicly supported birth control. To add insult to injury, Sharron Angle thinks rape and incest are just part of God's plan. If you've missed it:
"Turn lemons into lemonade!"
Nevada Primary Election Results
Congratulations to all pro-choice candidates moving on to the November election! For a complete list of our endorsed winners, click here.
Pro-Choice Voter Guide
We ask candidates at all levels where they stand on our issues: state funding of reproductive health care, confidential reproductive health services for minors, abortion access, and comprehensive sex ed.
We'll be posting our 2010 General Election voter guide soon!
Victory for Women's Health!
History will record the passage of health care reform as a victory for women's health.
What's in the new bill?
The health care reform bill extends health care coverage to tens of millions of women and families. The new law will dramatically increase access to basic reproductive health care and provide millions more women with family planning, including contraception. The bill will ensure that millions of women with modest incomes benefit from free or very low-cost lifesaving screenings for cervical and breast cancer and other health problems.
The passage of the new health care reform legislation is indeed a victory for women's health. However, the legislation is somewhat of a mixed bag for consumers and providers of reproductive health care, and for advocates of reproductive health care and rights. The bill includes a restrictive abortion provision, introduced by Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, that places an unacceptable burden on insurers and consumers who want to respectively sell and buy private insurance plans that cover abortion. We are working now to do as much as we can to fix these unfair and unnecessary requirements before they go into effect in 2014.
The legislation also provides $75 million per year over five years for evidence based, age-appropriate and medically accurate sex education programs that educate adolescents about both abstinence and contraception for the prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. Unfortunately, at the same time, the Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage education program was brought back for five years, making $50 million annually available to states for programs prohibited from discussing the benefits of contraception or safer sex behaviors.
Read more about what the legislation means for women
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The New Health Care Reform Legislation: Pros and Cons for Reproductive Health is an article by the Guttmacher Institute provides further details and analysis about how the new bill effects reproductive health.
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