A Few Important Campaigns

I chose to feature the campaigns below because the issues are still relevant and I was able to find documents that illustrated the Network’s demands and our tactics. I couldn’t include as many older campaigns as I would have liked to, because I don’t have access to those records. And many records of the Network’s early work aren’t yet digitized. For brief descriptions of the Network’s campaigns on breast cancer, Black women’s health, DES, contraception, childbirth, patients’ right to know, HIV/AIDS, toxic shock syndrome, sex drugs for women, sterilization abuse, and more, look at the Our Victories and The Beginnings sections of this site.

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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

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

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

Get the Pill Where You Take the Pill

In the very first week of the COVID-19 lockdown, Sarah Christopherson and I realized that we could take advantage of the crisis to insist that the FDA

A Few Important Campaigns

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