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Health Care Reform

LWV Statement on President Trump Testing Positive for COVID-19 (Press Release)

The League wishes President Trump and the First Lady a safe and speedy recovery.

LWV Signs Letter Expressing Concern on U.S. Terminating Relations with W.H.O (Legal Document)

LWV joined public health advocacy groups in a letter expressing grave concern regarding the United States Government’s decision to terminate its relationship with the World Health Organization (W.H.O). 

LWVUS Calls on Congress to Act on Institutional Violence Against Black Communities (Legal Document)

LWVUS joined 189 organizations addressing Congressional leadership and standing in solidarity with Black Women’s Reproductive Justice advocates to protect the bodily autonomy and reproductive rights of all people.

League Joins letter calling for Congress to Protect Basic Human Needs in Pandemic (Legal Document)

The League joins its partners addressing Congress and asking for new pandemic relief legislation that protects and meetings basic human needs to reduce the effects of the pandemic on our population.

Supreme Court Strikes Down Restrictive Abortion Law in Louisiana (Press Release)

We commend the Court on today’s ruling and celebrate that Louisiana will retain the three existing clinics in the state that provide abortion care.

League Joins Efforts to Support Funding in 4th COVID-19 Stimulus (Legal Document)

LWVUS has actively been supporting additional measures for inclusion in the next emergency funding stimulus bills related to the coronavirus. 

A majority of people support safe, legal access to abortion. So why is it under threat? (Blog)

This week the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that challenges a Louisiana law designed to undermine access to abortion.

League Asks Congress to Restore Title X and Reject Gag Rule Through Appropriations Processes (Legal Document)

With 136 organizations, we wrote to Congressional leadership to ask that provisions that promote health care access for millions of people in the U.S. and globally be included in the final budget.

League Asks for Extension of Comments Period to Department of Labor (Legal Document)

We joined 92 organizations in requesting that the Department of Labor extend the comment period for proposed rules on the equal opportunity clause's religious exemption.

League Urges Congress to Lift Severe Caps on Discretionary Spending (Article)

LWVUS joined organizations connected to the Coalition on Human Needs on a letter urging members of Congress to lift severe caps on domestic and international discretionary spending in Fiscal Years 2020 and 2021.