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Lack of Access to "Non-Essential" Healthcare Severely Impacts
WEBAs COVID-19 cases surge in the United States, many states have shifted healthcare policies to place a greater focus on those who have been infected. In order to do this, states must determine what is essential and non-essential healthcare, impacting marginalized people, such as poor people, communities of color, and women in severe …
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Study Finds Continuing Gender Gap in Medical Research
WEBIn response to this report, presented at the Women's Health Summit in Boston on Monday, Senator Elizabeth Warren has publicly stated her intention to push for new laws that would create greater oversight for federal agencies and ensure greater representation of women in medical research.
Monitoring Clinic Violence
WEBThe National Clinic Violence Survey is compiled by the staff of the Feminist Majority Foundation’s National Clinic Access project, measuring anti-abortion violence and harassment. This survey is one of the most comprehensive studies of anti-abortion violence and harassment directed at clinics, patients, health care workers and volunteers in
Women Experiencing COVID Symptoms Are Disbelieved
WEBThe story of one woman, Ailsa Court of Portland, Oregon, illuminates an issue that has existed far before the COVID-19 pandemic – disbelieving women’s pain. Court’s symptoms began in early March, and she is still experiencing “shortness of breath, achiness in her lungs, and a strange tingling in her calves”. Throughout her struggle, …
Equal Pay Day: Healthcare Workers Deserve Equal Pay (And Then …
WEBOn average men in the healthcare field earn around $86,219 a year, while women only make an average of $45,976 a year. Registered nurses make around $73,000 a year or $30 an hour on average, while licensed practical nurses make about $20 an hour, or just about $44,000 a year. Even though men make up less than 10% of the nursing …
Obamacare Turns 10 This Week. Here’s How It Has Changed …
WEBThe Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act was signed into law a decade ago by former President Barack Obama, but even after being signed into law it faced countless attacks from political opponents, Supreme Court cases, and even found itself at the center of election debates on the topic of healthcare. However, the biggest …
More than Abortion: What We Lose When Clinics Shut Down
WEBWe’re in the midst of a clinics crisis. State by state, regulations and legislation make it harder for clinics to stay open. And make no mistake: though headlines focus narrowly on only the abortion care provided at these clinics, the regulation of health centers means we’re losing much more than one procedure.
National Clinic Access Project
WEBThe National Clinic Access Project (NCAP) assists independent clinics and physicians as well as affiliated clinics, both non-profit clinics as well as for-profit. NCAP began as the National Clinic Defense Project in 1989 by mobilizing 10,000 pro-choice volunteers in response to Operation Rescue’s threat to turn Los Angeles into the first “abortion-free …
The EACH Woman Act Expanding Abortion Access Was Just …
WEBIn a long overdue step to ensuring access to health insurance coverage for abortion for low-income women, Congresswomen Barbara Lee (D-CA), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), and Diana DeGette (D-CO) today introduced the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH Woman) Act.
Violence to Abortion Providers
WEBFor nearly four decades reproductive health clinics and abortion providers throughout the United States have been under attack. There have been thousands of violent incidents including blockades, invasions, chemical attacks, arsons, bombings, death threats, shootings, sniper attacks, and cold-blooded murder. Anti-abortion extremists are waging …
New Reproductive Health Act Takes Effect in Michigan
WEBNick Youngson, Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED. This week, Michigan’s new Reproductive Health Act (RHA) took effect. The passing of the legislation, which was signed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer last November, comes after Michigan’s success during the 2022 election cycle, where voters passed a historic measure to …
1999 NATIONAL CLINIC VIOLENCE SURVEY REPORT
WEBIn 1999, 185 clinics rated their local law enforcement as excellent. Of these clinics, 39% were free from violence and only 16% reported high violence. Few clinics rated their local law enforcement as poor. Nonetheless, of those 19 clinics, 32% experienced high violence compared with 21% who were free from violence.
1993 NATIONAL CLINIC VIOLENCE SURVEY REPORT
WEBMETHODOLOGY & RESULTS METHODOLOGY The Feminist Majority conducted a nationwide survey of anti-abortion violence that occurred during the first seven months of 1993. In August of 1993, surveys were mailed to 966 clinics in the United States. Follow-up calls were made to these clinics, and, in some cases, survey responses were obtained …
1997 CLINIC VIOLENCE SURVEY REPORT
WEBSince the Feminist Majority Foundation’s first clinic violence survey in 1993, the segment of clinics under attack has declined from a high of 51.9% in 1994 to 38.6% in 1995, to 27.6% in 1996 and to 24.8% in 1997. Chart 1 shows the percentage of clinics reporting severe violence over last five years in which the National Clinic Violence
1998 NATIONAL CLINIC VIOLENCE SURVEY REPORT
WEBConducted by the Feminist Majority Foundation Prepared by Jennifer Jackman, Ph.D.Christine Onyango, M.A.Elizabeth Gavrilles, M.F.A. Released January 21, 1999 KEY FINDINGS Almost one-fourth of clinics faced severe anti-abortion violence in 1998. The percentage of clinics reporting one or more types of severe violence which …
The Brave Life of Abortion Provider Susan Hill
WEBHill, 61, succumbed to the disease on January 30 in Raleigh, N.C., courageous to the end. Her colleagues haven’t skipped a beat, continuing her work to provide safe abortions, but she will certainly be missed by those in the reproductive rights movement who have counted on her steadfast commitment since Roe v. Wade became …
Tuscaloosa, AL Abortion Clinic Target of 13th Clinic …
WEBThe July 22nd arson of the West Alabama Women’s Center clinic in Tuscaloosa, AL marks the 13th abortion clinic arson or bombing of 1997 – the highest rate of anti-abortion violence since 1984. The Tuscaloosa clinic sustained massive damage, estimated at $100,000, due to the early morning fire. The clinic has been plagued in the […]
APA Removes Gender Identity Disorder from DSM-V
WEBThe American Psychological Association approved changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, or DSM, that would remove transgender from being listed as a mental disorder on Saturday. The DSM-V, the latest edition of the diagnostic guidelines used by the mental health community, will no longer have “gender identity disorder” as a …
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