Choice News Round-Up April 4-8

The Congressional War on Women Continues Federal and state legislators are focusing their anti-abortion agenda on middle-income women who want to use their own money to buy insurance that covers abortion services. These measures ultimately incentivize “…insurers in the state marketplaces to drop abortion coverage, making it unavailable even for women who pay their own premiums.” [...]

Choice News Round-Up

NARAL Activists Stand Up for Women’s Health On March 24, 60 pro-choice activists rallied outside of Rep. Dave Reichert’s Mercer Island office in response to his latest vote to defund Planned Parenthood.  They also delivered petition signatures against the congressional War on Women.  Check out some coverage here and here. The Congressional War on Women [...]

Choice News: Health Care Reform Anniversary Edition

NARAL Pro-Choice Washington Marks the One Year Anniversary of the Passage of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). The National Women’s Law Center and the Center for American Progress have put together a series of fact sheets detailing the different ways ACA benefits women, including: Employers must provide nursing mothers with a private and [...]

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Abortion Access Anti-choice Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has issued an opinion in which he argues for stricter regulations for the state’s abortion clinics.  Tarina Keene, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia, said, “These so-called regulations are only an attempt to shut down abortion clinics in the Commonwealth of Virginia.” Tarina Keene discusses the regulations [...]

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2010 Elections Today is Washington’s Primary Election, and mail-in ballots must be postmarked by today in order to be counted.  NARAL Pro-Choice Washington’s voter guide is available here, and PubliCola posts the number to call for voters who lost their ballots. EMILY’s List has a new video lampooning Sarah Palin’s “Mama Grizzlies” as part of [...]

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Contraception Access The FDA has approved a new emergency contraceptive, marketed under the brand name ella, that is effective for up to 5 days after unprotected sex or contraceptive failure.  Ella will be available by prescription only.  This decision marks an ideological shift at the FDA under the Obama administration; the FDA under Bush repeatedly [...]

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2010 Elections The Seattle Times profiles anti-choice Senate candidate Dino Rossi.  Rossi is so far to the right, he is now saying he would “maybe” make an exception to his opposition to abortion access for cases of rape, incest or when a woman’s life is in danger. Washington Post political blogger Chris Cillizza has moved [...]

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2010 Elections An analysis by the Governor’s budget office finds that I-1098, the high-earners’ income tax initiative, would generate $11.6 billion in revenue for the state over 5 years. The Washington Independent reports on the efforts of anti-choice groups like the Susan B. Anthony List to defeat anti-choice Democrats who supported the health care reform [...]

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2010 Elections Conservative Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has endorsed anti-choice Senate candidate Dino Rossi, saying that “Dino will be an ally” in the Senate.  Sen. Coburn supports the death penalty for doctors who provide abortion care. Seattlepi.com columnist Joel Connelly writes that it is time to get rid of conservative state Supreme Court Justices Jim [...]

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Supreme Court Watch Yesterday the Senate voted 63-37 to confirm Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.  Kagan will be the fourth woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court, and the court will for the first time have three women on the bench at once when the fall terms begins on October 4. Politico reports [...]