California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is leading the charge on a Supreme Court case that will determine whether fake women’s health clinics that work to deceive pregnant women must provide medically accurate and unbiased information on health services, including safe, legal abortion.
These so-called “refusal laws” mean communities that already face discrimination when accessing health care — like LGBTQ people, women, and people of color — could face even more barriers.
Amid rampant attacks on reproductive rights, 16 attorneys general recently filed an amicus brief — a common legal document offering expertise — to express their support of safe, legal abortion. The effort helps challenge a dangerous Texas abortion ban that would criminalize health care providers who perform abortions after the second trimester — despite the fact that these are safe and common. The amicus brief was supported by attorneys general of New Jersey, Oregon, and more.
The Trump-Pence administration recently announced that the United States Census will ask people about their citizenship status . The change will hurt immigrants and communities of color, likely resulting in an undercount of many immigrant communities.
Josh Shapiro, the attorney general of Pennsylvania, who filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration’s restrictions, called the ruling “a victory for the health and economic independence of women.”. Credit... The attorney general of California, Xavier Becerra, also a Democrat, said: “The law couldn’t be clearer.
Employers have no business interfering in women’s health care decisions.”. President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act in March 2010.
Mark L. Rienzi, the president of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, said Monday that his organization would appeal the court decisions on behalf of its client the Little Sisters of the Poor, an order of Roman Catholic nuns who object to the contraceptive coverage mandate.
Women are guaranteed access to free birth control under the Affordable Care Act, but President Trump has sought to allow employers to deny insurance coverage of contraceptives on religious or moral grounds.