Advocacy & Action
Welcome to Advocacy & Action, a digest of reproductive rights and health news from our state, our nation, and around the world.
NPR
Furor Erupts Over Susan G. Komen Halt Of Grants To Planned Parenthood
1/31/2012 — The reaction has been intense this evening to the news from The Associated Press that “the nation’s leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is halting its partnerships with Planned Parenthood affiliates.”
Much of it is highly critical of the charity, such as this message from Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif.:
“Komen’s decision hurts women — it puts politics before women’s health. @komenforthecure should be ashamed.” Read More
ANTI-ABORTION LEGISLATION
The Hill – Floor Action Blog
House Republicans Propose Three Anti-abortion Measures
1/25/2012 — House Republicans on Monday proposed various bills that would restrict women’s access to abortion. The timing coincided with an annual antiabortion-rights march in Washington, D.C., to mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
One bill (HR 3802), introduced by Rep. Jeff Duncan (S.C.), would require abortion providers to obtain a woman’s written certification, followed by a 24-hour waiting period before the procedure.
Another bill (HR 3805), introduced by Republican Study Committee Chair Jim Jordan (Ohio), would require physicians to perform and show women an ultrasound before providing abortion care.
Meanwhile, Rep. Trent Franks’ (Ariz.) bill (HR 3803) to ban abortion after 20 weeks of gestation in Washington, D.C., has garnered 49 cosponsors.
Source: National Partnership for Women & Families
CONTRACEPTIVE COVERAGE CONTROVERSY
Center for American Progress
Contraceptive Coverage Rule is Big Win for Students: No religious exemption for university health plans
1/26/2012 — The Obama administration announced on Friday that, after reviewing countless public comments and enduring massive political pressure, the Health and Human Services Department will maintain a narrow exemption for religious employers in a regulation requiring coverage of contraception with no cost-sharing in most health plans. As reproductive health advocates cheer this decision, one often-overlooked population should be cheering especially loudly: students who obtain their health insurance through the universities they attend. Read More
The New York Times
Ruling on Contraception Draws Battle Lines at Catholic Colleges
1/29/2012 — Bridgette Dunlap, a Fordham University law student, knew that the school’s health plan had to pay for birth control pills, in keeping with New York state law. What she did not find out until she was in an examining room, “in the paper dress,” was that the student health service — in keeping with Roman Catholic tenets — would simply refuse to prescribe them. Read More
Politico
Marco Rubio jumps into birth control dispute
1/31/2012 — Amid growing rancor between the Catholic hierarchy and the White House, Republican rising star Sen. Marco Rubio is pushing a bill that takes a swipe at the Obama administration’s stance on expanding access to birth control.
The Florida senator, widely considered on the short list for the GOP vice presidential pick, introduced legislation Tuesday that would vastly expand the ability of religious or faith-based employers to opt out of a health reform law requirement that health plans cover all FDA-approved contraceptives without any co-pay. Read More
CONTRACEPTIVE REVOLUTION
Huffington Post
Picture a Technology Revolution. In Contraception. It’s Here.
1/26/2012 — Imagine a future in which we can simply toggle the default on human fertility, so that accidental pregnancy is a thing of the past and women become fertile only when they want to become pregnant. By nature, adolescence switches our fertility default to “on” and it is stuck there for the next 40 years. Globally, 100 million women want to delay, space or limit child bearing but have no control over their fertility. Even women who are lucky enough to have contraceptives like Pills or patches or injections have to keep switching fertility back off.
The latest generation of long acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) are game-changers. On the Pill –1960s technology with minor tweaks — one in 12 women gets pregnant each year! With condoms, it’s one in eight. (No contraception would be eight out of ten.) With the most effective hormonal IUD available, that number is one in 700. That’s the same as sterilization, and yet fertility can be restored by a five-minute procedure and returns within a few cycles. Read More
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