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Women in Combat: The Marines Take An Important First Step, But More Is Needed to Ensure Full Equality.

By Ariela Migdal, Women's Rights Project & Vania Leveille, Washington Legislative Office at 3:29pm
Less than three months after the Pentagon announced that it was loosening the rules that bar women from being assigned to ground combat units, the Marine Corps ... Read More

DoD Comes Closer to Recognizing that Women Are Already Serving on the Front Lines

By Ariela Migdal, Women's Rights Project & Vania Leveille, Washington Legislative Office at 5:13pm
Last week, Pentagon officials got a few steps closer to recognizing what those serving in Iraq and Afghanistan have known for years: servicewomen fight on the ... Read More

Soldiering On: The Fight for Greater Equality in the Military Continues

By Vania Leveille, Washington Legislative Office & Alicia Gay, ACLU at 4:31pm
This Veterans' Day, we thank our service men and women for their dedication, and we celebrate the strides our country has made towards greater equality in the armed ... Read More

Forget Abstinence-Only Programs and Let’s Get Real.

By Kristina Roth & Vania Leveille, Washington Legislative Office at 12:10pm
The attacks on common sense have begun again. The recently introduced House Labor and Health and Human Services FY12 spending bill makes massive cuts to the teen ... Read More

D.C. Gets Some R-E-S-P-E-C-T…But Not From Congress

By Elayne Weiss, Washington Legislative Office & Vania Leveille, Washington Legislative Office at 11:55am
We're happy to report that last Wednesday, the Obama administration criticized a provision in a bill that bans the District of Columbia from using its own local ... Read More

House Gets Ready to Vote on Radical Anti-Abortion Bill

By Sarah Lipton-Lubet, Washington Legislative Office & Vania Leveille, Washington Legislative Office at 11:18am
The U.S. House of Representatives is getting ready to vote on the misleadingly titled No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 3) today. As early as noon, your ... Read More

The Agony and the Ecstasy: Reproductive Rights on Capitol Hill

By Vania Leveille, Washington Legislative Office & Vania Leveille, Washington Legislative Office at 6:02pm
We Won The Big Fight For Planned Parenthood! There is cause for celebration! The President of the United States and the Senate Majority Leader were unwavering ... Read More

The Agony and the Ecstasy: Reproductive Rights on Capitol Hill

By Vania Leveille, Washington Legislative Office & Vania Leveille, Washington Legislative Office at 6:02pm
We Won The Big Fight For Planned Parenthood! There is cause for celebration! The President of the United States and the Senate Majority Leader were unwavering ... Read More

The Senate Gives Up on Military Women's Access to Health Care

By Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, Reproductive Freedom Project & Allie Bohm, ACLU & Vania Leveille, Washington Legislative Office at 3:29pm
On Veterans' Day, we told you that Congress had the historic opportunity to overturn the ban on privately-funded abortions on military bases. Read More

Watch It: CEDAW Hearing Today at 2 p.m.

By Lenora Lapidus, Women's Rights Project & Vania Leveille, Washington Legislative Office at 10:28am
Today at 2 p.m., the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law will hold a hearing on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of ... Read More
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