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ACLU Applauds CA Supreme Court Decision Promoting Women's Health and Ending Gender Discrimination in Insurance Coverage (03/01/2004)
SAN FRANCISCO - The American Civil Liberties Union and its California affiliates today hailed a decision by the California State Supreme Court upholding a California law requiring employers that provide prescription drug benefits to include contraceptive coverage.

ACLU Applauds Court Decision Promoting Women's Health and Ending Gender Discrimination in Insurance Coverage (12/01/2003)
ALBANY - The American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union today hailed a decision by a New York State Supreme Court judge upholding a New York law requiring insurance companies to include contraceptive coverage in their drug benefit packages.

ACLU and NYCLU Ask Court to Protect Women's Right to Contraceptive Coverage (08/22/2003)
ALBANY -- A law requiring insurance companies to cover contraceptives promotes women's health and equality without violating religious freedom, the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union argued in a friend-of-the-court brief filed today in state supreme court.

ACLU Releases Manual for Improving Access to Emergency Contraception for Sexual Assault Survivors (07/18/2003)
NEW YORK-- The American Civil Liberties Union Reproductive Freedom Project and the Clara Bell Duvall Reproductive Freedom Project of the ACLU of Pennsylvania today released a new manual to help advocates determine whether hospitals in their states provide emergency contraception (EC) to sexual assault survivors and to use this information to increase access to EC.

NYCLU Vows to Defend Contraceptive Coverage Law Against Religious Coalition's Challenge (12/30/2002)
NEW YORK - The New York Civil Liberties Union today said that it would file a friend-of-the-court brief opposing a challenge by religious groups to a state law that requires insurance plans to cover contraception.

ACLU Announces Settlement in Case Against Taxpayer Financing of Religion in Louisiana Abstinence-Only Programs (11/13/2002)
NEW ORLEANS-The American Civil Liberties Union today announced a settlement with the Louisiana governor's office in a case challenging the use of taxpayer dollars to fund religious activities in the Governor's Program on Abstinence.

Anti-Choice Bill Would Impede Access to Critical Health Care; ACLU Says Ideologues Again Pushing Agenda At Women's Expense (09/24/2002)
WASHINGTON - With access to reproductive health care nationwide increasingly jeopardized by the imposition of religious beliefs, the American Civil Liberties Union today urged the House of Representatives to protect both religious freedom and abortion rights by defeating a misleadingly named anti-abortion bill.

ACLU Hails Federal Court's Decision to Halt Taxpayer Financing of Religion in Abstinence-Only Programs (07/25/2002)
NEW ORLEANS, LA-Citing misuse of taxpayer dollars, a federal district court today blocked the state of Louisiana from funding religious activities in the Governor's Program on Abstinence. 

ACLU Urges Congress to Reject Broad Imposition of Religion in Health Care (07/11/2002)
WASHINGTON - Citing recent opinion polls that suggest strong opposition in America to the imposition of religion in the provision of health care, the American Civil Liberties Union today urged Congress to reject broad ""refusal clauses"" that allow taxpayer funded medical facilities to endanger women's health because of religious beliefs.

ACLU and New Jersey Public Interest Group Contest Hospital Merger that Reduces Access to Family Healthcare (07/08/2002)
NEWARK, NJ-- The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey and the New Jersey Appleseed Public Interest Law Center today filed a motion to intervene in the merger between Burlington County's Rancocas Hospital and Our Lady of Lourdes Healthcare Services, in an effort to preserve the availability of family reproductive healthcare services including tubal ligations, vasectomies and abortions. 

ACLU Asks Court to Stop Taxpayer Financing of Religion in Abstinence-Only Programs (05/09/2002)
NEW ORLEANS, LA-Charging abuse of tax dollars to fund programs that preach religion in abstinence-only education, the American Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit here in federal court against Louisiana public officials. 

ACLU Says Abstinence-Only Education Endangers Adolescent Health, Urges Congress to Make Available Other Valuable Information (04/23/2002)
WASHINGTON - While acknowledging that discussions about abstinence can be valuable in any sexuality education program, the American Civil Liberties Union today urged Congress to oppose federal funding for programs that focus exclusively on teaching abstinence and which censor other valuable and often life-saving information for teens. 

ACLU Helps Launch Campaign to Oppose Government Censorship of Sexuality Education (06/12/2001)
WASHINGTON -- Joining with 34 other prominent national organizations, the American Civil Liberties Union today said that abstinence-only sexuality education dangerously limits students' access to information about human sexuality and results in widespread government-sponsored censorship. 

NYCLU Says Loophole in Women's Health Bill Allows Denial of Service on Religious Grounds (01/24/2001)
NEW YORK--The New York Civil Liberties Union today called for elimination of a "gaping loophole" in State Senator Joseph Bruno's "Women's Health and Wellness" bill that allows employers, insurers and hospitals to deny coverage for contraceptives and other kinds of obstetric and gynecologic care on religious grounds.

Hospital Merger Threatens Reproductive Rights (08/16/2000)
ST. PETERSBURG, FL -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida along with three national advocacy organizations today filed a federal lawsuit against the City of St. Petersburg and two local healthcare management systems saying that the insertion of religious beliefs into the policy of a public hospital violates the separation between church and state.