March 2009

Full Funding for Office of Women's Health

Commissioner von Eschenbach has assured Congress that the Office of Women’s Health (OWH) will be allocated $4 million in 2007. The Commissioner has made this assurance after a scare that the OWH would have its budget cut to 2.8 million only a few short weeks ago.

NLIRH applauds the efforts made to secure funding for the OWH because of the important role it has in informing the public on women’s reproductive health:

The Office of Women’s Health Office within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provides Read more »

Court rules in favor of EC access for young women

On March 22nd, a federal district court in Brooklyn ruled that politics had intervened in the FDA decision to bar young women from over-the-counter access to emergency birth control. The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH) is a plantiff in this case. Read more »

Take Action: Obama Administration Moves to Rescind Bush-Administration HHS Regulation

Just before its end, the Bush Administration put in place a set of regulations that would allow any employee of a health care provider to refuse to treat any individual receiving any services that would violate the employee’s moral beliefs, dramatically and unnecessarily expanding conscientious refusal protections and undermining the importance of reproductive health.

Now is the time to make your voice heard. Let Charles E. Johnson, Acting Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services know that we will not stand for scientifically inaccurate policies meant to undermine reproductive justice!

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