For generations, women have overcome obstacles, exceeded expectations and fought for equality. We fought discrimination in the health insurance market, where women have been considered a pre-existing condition and denied health coverage due to a previous Caesarean section or a history of domestic violence or rape. We fought to end the discriminatory practice of insurance companies charging women more than men for health coverage, simply because we are women. And we won: the health care law finally ends these odious practices.
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South Sudan: Fighting prompts staff to evacuate border town
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Afghanistan: Chickens that change lives
Photographer Toni Greaves visits the home of a brave Afghan woman who is challenging traditional gender roles by becoming the family breadwinner.
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The new law is making health care work better for all of us, even if you already have insurance. It puts the health of your family first—ensuring access to free preventive care and protecting consumers from insurance company abuses.
Ask your mom, aunt, grandmother her story about the challenges of accessible birth control or share your own story with us.
Yes, that’s right – creative uses of bacon grease and having to show your marriage license to get a prescription for birth control is what many of our mothers, great aunts, and grandmothers endured.
It’s been nearly fifty years since the Supreme Court’slandmark decision in Connecticut v Griswold struck down state bans on birth control. Yet women in at least 24 states have reported that their pharmacists have denied them access to birth control. And politicians are not making it any easier by trying to limit access to affordable contraception and other women’s health care needs.
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