health insurance reform

In Pursuit of Health Care and Justice: My Day in Court with the ACLU

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by Kari Ann Rinker, National Organization for Women (NOW), Kansas

September 19, 2011 - 10:10pm (Print)

An ACLU’s suit against Kansas private insurance abortion ban focuses on three points: The law acts as an unconstitutional tax on women, it serves no legitimate state interest, and it constitutes gender discrimination.

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Have an Individual Health Insurance Policy and Pre-Existing Conditions and You Want to Move? Good Luck With That

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by Lucinda Marshall, Feminist Peace Network

August 16, 2011 - 2:34pm (Print)

The following the letter documents the infuriating, scary, time-consuming and unconscionable experience I have had trying to move from one state to another without losing adequate health insurance.

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The Nelson "Compromise:" What It Will Cost Us

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by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

December 20, 2009 - 2:50pm (Print)

By catering to Nelson, the Bishops, and fundamentalists, the Senate aided the anti-choice forces in achieving one of their primary goals: further stigmatizing reproductive and sexual health care, and making it harder for women to get.

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Senate Bill More Closely Preserves Abortion Status Quo

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by Jessica Arons, Center for American Progress and Center for American Progress Action Fund

November 24, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

Opponents and supporters of women's choices in childbearing agreed early on, in theory, to maintain the “status quo” with "abortion neutral" health care legislation. The Senate bill achieves this goal; the House bill does not.

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The Stupak Amendment: An Assault On Women

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by Charlotte Taft

November 9, 2009 - 6:00am (Print)

The Stupak-Pitts amendment would actually result the loss of abortion coverage many women already have because it prohibits the new private insurance market as well as any possible public option from providing such coverage.
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NYT: Abortion Fight Complicates Debate on Health Care

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by Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

September 29, 2009 - 10:23am (Print)

A front page story in today's edition of the New York Times highlights access to abortion as a potential roadblock to acheiving health insurance reform.
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