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Senate voting on amendment to expand health care refusal
As soon as this afternoon or tomorrow, the Senate is expected to vote on an amendment to the Transportation bill proposed by Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO). This amendment is a reaction to the recent...
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Making our voices heard, even if some don’t want to hear them
If you’re interested in the voice and perspective that were silenced, read Sandra’s moving testimony or watch her deliver it at a press conference last week [the other testimony is worth a watch too,...
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20 DAYS of ACA: Health reform to expand reach of Community Health Centers
The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health recognizes the critical role community health centers (CHCs) play in delivering health care to Latin@ communities across the country. And so does...
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20 Days of ACA: No co-pays for contraception!
Throughout 20 Days of ACA, we have discussed many of the preventive health services that will be covered by private health insurance companies with no additional cost, or “co-pay” to patients. The...
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Advancing Paycheck Fairness for Latinas means Advancing Immigrant and...
Latina activists in New York recognize that passage of the DREAM Act advances both economic and reproductive justice. As we join the call for Paycheck Fairness, the National Latina Institute for...
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Celebrating New Access to Birth Control for Some Latinas, and Continuing the...
Today marks the day in which health insurance policies begin to make the transition into no-copay preventive services, a mandate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Because birth control is a preventive...
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Government Issued IDs: A Barrier to the Vote, A Barrier to Emergency...
This past election cycle, we saw the power a government-issued ID can give an individual. In states where voter ID laws were being enforced, individuals who did not have government IDs could not...
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Immigration Reform & The Latino Majority
Post By Valentina Forte-Hernandez The attention that is being put towards immigration reform marks progress in the immigrant rights movement, but the bill that is currently being discussed in the...
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Thanks, but No Thanks, Texas
Post by Valentina Forte-Hernandez Texas legislatures are attempting to disguise their anti-abortion bill as a measure of protection for teenagers and children. They are acting as if restricting...
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Poderosa Profile: Valentina Forte-Hernandez
Valentina Forte-Hernandez is a Berkeley California born Immigrant/Reproductive rights activist. She is interning at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health this summer before returning to...
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