BEYOND STUPAK II : Why The Language in the Nurse Home Visitation Provision in Health Care Legislation Must be Fixed
As health care legislation enters its final stages, it appears that the federal government is poised to authorize Medicaid spending for an ambitious, mostly privately-run program that enters and touches the most intimate domains of poor women – without any explicitly stipulated protections of their rights. More
Social Security Domestic Violence Identity Change Petition
In 1998 the Social Security Administration announced a program to aid domestic violence survivors by allowing them to obtain new social security numbers. No doubt thousands of lives have been saved since this program has been developed. But problems with the program are beginning to surface and must be addressed so that survivors who depend on this last resort option can remain safe. Read More and Take Action!
Scholar's past adds intrigue to student loan fraud trial
According to the indictment Yould used a second identity to apply for subsidized student loans, even though she had reached her lifetime limit. She then used some of that money to start a business and boost her investment portfolio, it says. But Yould's friends and family say she created the second identity with government approval to hide from a stalker. More
Shattered Hearts: Sexual Trafficking of American Indian Women and Girls in Minnesota
Police reports from Duluth showed that Native girls were being lured off reservations, taken onto ships in port, beaten, and gang-raped. Native girls were being trafficked into prostitution, pornography, and strip shows over state lines and to Mexico. This is the first report of commercial sexual exploitation of American Indian women and girls. More
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BEYOND STUPAK II : Why The Language in the Nurse Home Visitation Provision in Health Care Legislation Must be Fixed
January 11, 2010
As health care legislation enters its final stages, it appears that the federal government is poised to authorize Medicaid spending for an ambitious, mostly privately-run program that enters and touches the most intimate domains of poor women – without any explicitly stipulated protections of their rights. More
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BEYOND STUPAK - the shocking fertility control provisions in health care reform legislation
November 23, 2009
Although government research shows that poverty is not correlated with family size -- and that childbearing does not cause poverty -- current health care legislation seeks to tell low-income women how many children to have and when to have them. Contact your legislators to urge them to reject these misguided provisions. Take Action Now!
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MA: Sexual Assault Services Slashed
November 16, 2009
Earlier this month Governor Deval Patrick cut $1 million (one third of the budget) from the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program. This cut will mean the near elimination of a crucial system of coordinated care for survivors of sexual violence. Take Action Now!