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by Julia Reticker-Flynn, Manager, Youth Activist Network
From January 20 to 27, Advocates for Youth is joining the first-ever Trust Women Week, an online mass mobilization for women's lives and rights. This unique collaborative campaign is working with MoveOn.org and more than 50 organizations across the nation, including coordinating partner, the Trust Women/Silver Ribbon Campaign, to let legislators know that reproductive health, reproductive justice, and reproductive rights are at the top of our agenda and should be at the top of theirs, too. In this collaborative national action, messages from "virtual marchers," as the online participants are known, will be packaged and delivered directly to members of Congress, governors, and state legislators to underscore that Americans trust women to make their own decisions about their bodies and their lives.
Your Voice Counts! CLICK HERE to join the TRUST WOMEN WEEK Virtual March for Women's Lives and Rights.
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:00 |
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Statements from Debra Hauser and youth activists Tanisha and Jessika
Washington, DC – After months of constant activity by grassroots activists across the country asking President Obama to hold the line in the face of pressure from social conservatives, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that it would not expand religious exemptions to no-copay birth control requirements of the Affordable Care Act.
"Today Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius stood with young women and did not bow to political pressure,” said Debra Hauser, Executive Director of Advocates for Youth. “This is a victory for science, common sense, and young people in America. Millions of young women at Catholic and religious affiliated colleges will no longer face barriers to accessing birth control through their student health plans. This decision is also a huge step forward for young people who receive insurance coverage through their parents’ health care plans at religious affiliated hospitals and other businesses.”
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