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Great News -- Ad Company Agreed to Pull Racist and Offensive Anti-Choice Billboard Today!

February 24, 2011

Great News! We just learned from our colleagues at the Women of Color Policy Network that Lamar Advertising is pulling down the racist and offensive billboard by the anti-choice organization, Life Always, in Soho after an outpouring of calls and emails from reproductive health activists and communities of color.

Following a letter to Peter Costanza, Vice President and General Manager of LaMar Billboards, written by the Women of Color Policy Network, Mr. Costanza responded affirmatively that they would remove the billboard. Read more »

Congress prioritizes attacks on vulnerable women and families

February 18, 2011

Today's votes in the U.S. House of Representatives on harmful amendments to the federal spending bill (H.R. 1) was a new low in attacks against women and their families. While the bill and its amendments attempt to take aim at the country’s alarming deficit, they do so by slashing a number of important programs and measures. The cuts are misguided and dangerous and strike in the areas of public safety, education, and infrastructure at a time when jobs in these very areas could help millions of people in the U.S. Read more »

Experts Again Recommend Full Coverage of Contraception in Healthcare

January 21, 2011

We encouraged the inclusion of contraception in the definition of preventive services at The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) second public hearing on the definition of preventive health services for women last week. Our testimony asked the committee to include contraception in its definition of preventive services, a step that would treat contraception like any other preventive service and thereby require that it be available without a co-payment. Although several groups attempted to persuade the committee to not cover contraception, many organizations eloquently elevated women’s voices including Raising Women’s Voices, Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, American Civil Liberties Union, and Ovarian Cancer National Alliance.
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NAPAWF, NLIRH, and RHTP Oppose the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act”

January 21, 2011

Bill would severely limit access to important reproductive health services for women, particularly women of color and immigrant women

January 20, 2011 (Washington, DC) -- The National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF), the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH), and the Reproductive Health Technologies Project (RHTP) strongly oppose H.R.3 which was introduced in the House of Representatives today.

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Take action to protect health care reform

January 18, 2011

The new leadership in Congress has set out a very dangerous agenda and the health, dignity and rights of women and immigrants are particularly threatened.

First in the order of priorities for the new Congress is to repeal the landmark health care reform legislation passed in March of last year. Read more »