The Reproductive Health Act will update New York’s outdated and inadequate 1970 abortion law. It will ensure that the health care New York’s women expect and doctors deliver would remain regardless of actions at the federal level.
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The new federal health care reform law (the Affordable Care Act) will make access to affordable health care coverage a reality for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers. Learn more about the new health care law and it's impact on women's health.
Read moreThe Reproductive Health Act will update New York’s outdated and inadequate 1970 abortion law. It will ensure that the health care New York’s women expect and doctors deliver would remain regardless of actions at the federal level.
Read moreThe Healthy Teens Act (HTA) is legislation in New York State that would establish an age-appropriate, medically accurate, comprehensive sex education grant program through the Department of Health.
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Tea Party Republicans’ assault women’s preventive care and birth control: Redux
In the latest Congressional attack on women’s health care, House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health Chair Rep. Joe Pitts held a hearing today on taking away new preventive health benefits from millions of women nationwide, including health plan coverage of birth control without copays. This benefit in new health insurance plans is one of the greatest advancements for women’s health care in decades.
Distractions amid the gridlock
Times Union Editorial Oct. 23, 2011
Our opinion: Just what do guns and abortion have to do with this nation’s problems right now? Everything, apparently, to House Republicans.
Americans are crying out for action from Washington on the economy, on unrelenting high unemployment, on the deterioration of the nation’s middle class. So what does the House of Representatives put on its front burner?
Guns and abortion.
Playing Politics With Women’s Lives
New York Times Editorial Oct. 19, 2011
House Republicans approved an egregious measure last week that would shrink access to abortion to the point of endangering women’s lives.
