A Few Important

Campaigns

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Dying From Red Tape

Opponents of expanded access to health care tried to cut Medicaid in 2019 by imposing so-called work requirements. The new requirements were so cumbersome that hundreds of thousands

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Challenging Menopause Myths

For decades, menopause was described as a deficiency disease, one that inevitably led to fractures, heart attacks and cognitive decline. Millions of healthy women

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Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need

Fighting for universal health care was been part of the Network’s mission from the beginning. In 2007, five of us—Byllye Avery, Lois Uttley, Amy Allina, Reena Singh, and I—co-founded Raising Women’s Voices. For 15 years, our organizations

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Get the Pill Where You Take the Pill

In the very first week of the COVID-19 lockdown, we realized that we could take advantage of the crisis to insist that the FDA allow women to receive abortion pills by mail.

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