Court Ruling: Hobby Lobby Cannot Deny Contraceptive Coverage to its Employees

by | Nov 28, 2012 | Contraception, Emergency Contraception, Health Care, Health insurance, Reproductive Rights, Uncategorized, Women's health

By Amal Bass, WLP Staff Attorney On November 19, 2012, an Oklahoma federal court denied Hobby Lobby’s motion for a preliminary injunction, telling the business and its co-plaintiff (Mardel, another business owned by the same family trust) that they would be unlikely...

The Affordable Care Act Extends No-Cost Preventive Care to Women

by | Aug 1, 2012 | Contraception, Government, Health Care, Health insurance, Maternity Coverage, Reproductive Rights, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Women's health

Nikki Ditto, WLP Intern Wednesday, August 1st  is an important day for women’s health. After this date, all new insurance plans must cover certain women’s preventive health services, including contraceptives, without co-pays or deductibles. This represents an...

Courts Come to Different Decisions on the ACA’s Provision Requiring Some Employers to Cover Contraception

by | Aug 1, 2012 | Contraception, Courts, Emergency Contraception, Family Planning, Health Care, Health insurance, Reproductive Rights, Women's health

Mary Pat Dwyer, WLP Law Intern Two federal district court judges ruled recently on claims regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision which requires that employers providing health insurance to their employees cover reproductive health services, including birth...

First Amendment Does Not Give Church Leaders Right to Impose Beliefs on Women

by | Jun 15, 2012 | Contraception, Family Planning, Health Care, Health insurance, Philadelphia Inquirer, Reproductive Rights, Women's health

Terry L. Fromson, Women’s Law Project Managing Attorney Advancing the church’s unrelenting pursuit of control over women’s reproductive lives, Joe Watkins’ op-ed published in The Philadelphia Inquirer on June 3 (Mandate for health services touches full religious...

Pennsylvania House Introduces Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood

by | Jun 12, 2012 | Abortion, Abortion Access, Contraception, Family Planning, Health Care, HIV/AIDS, Pregnancy, Reproductive Rights, Sexually Transmitted Disease, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Women's health

Nikki Ditto and Molly Duerig, WLP Interns A bill recently introduced in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, HB 2405, aims to bar state and federal funds from going to health care clinics that provide abortions. Titled the “Whole Women’s Health Funding...
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