National Women's Law Center

This grant would support the Reproductive Rights and Health Program of the National Women's Law Center, a highly regarded, multi-issue advocacy organization that uses a range of tools-research and analysis, litigation, coalition building, and public education-to promote better reproductive rights and health policies and advance the rights of women and girls. In the coming year, it will (1) monitor implementation of health care reform legislation to ensure the maximum benefit for women's reproductive health and rights, advocating when problems are discovered; (2) promote policies to prevent unplanned pregnancy by improving access to contraception and sex education; (3) safeguard women's access to abortion, including Medicaid coverage for low-income women; (4) counter the threat of religious restrictions to women's access to reproductive health care; and (5) continue as a watchdog and resource for the pro-choice movement on federal judicial nominations.