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On Roe v. Wade’s 50th Anniversary, Millions of Patients are Unable To Access Abortion
2023 marks the first year in half a century that women in the United States do not have the Constitutional right to access abortion. The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark January 22, 1973 ruling on Roe v. Wade made abortion legal under the Fourteenth Amendment as a...
President Biden’s Top 10 Healthcare Victories of 2022
In 2022, President Biden and Congressional Democrats delivered on their promises by continuing to expand access to quality, affordable healthcare, and by making historic improvements to Medicare prescription drug coverage that will both lower prices and reduce...
HCANEF Partner Spotlight: Virginia Organizing Fighting for Reproductive Health, Rights & Justice in Wake of SCOTUS Repeal of Abortion Rights
Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs’ decision, Virginia Organizing, an HCANEF partner in Virginia, has been bringing people together to protect abortion access in the Commonwealth. Immediately following the June 24th decision, the State Governing Board of Virginia...
Congratulations to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
When long-time Speaker and health care champion Nancy Pelosi recently announced the end of her tenure, a new Democratic leader was already poised to step up in the House of Representatives. Today, House Democrats voted unanimously to elect a new leader, who will be...
Thank you, Speaker Nancy Pelosi
After almost 20 years of leadership, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced last month she would not seek re-election to Democratic leadership in the next Congress, making way for a new generation of Democratic leaders and leaving a tremendous legacy that materially improved...
Voters Pick Abortion Rights Over Extremist Bans in Midterm Elections
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs decision, after 50 years of guaranteed abortion rights and access, was a wake-up call to many Americans. On the eve of the 2022 mid-term elections, abortion was illegal in a quarter of the country. The...
SCOTUS Dobbs’ Decision Overturns Constitutional Right to Abortion Activists Fight Back
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court turned back the clock fifty years by reversing a basic Constitutional freedom that for decades has enabled pregnant people to make decisions about their own futures: the right to have an abortion. For decades, two-thirds of the...
The Looming Supreme Court Decision on Abortion
On Monday, the Supreme Court announced that, next term, it would hear a challenge to a 2018 Mississippi abortion law, which conservative legal scholars have said provides an opportunity to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that ensures civil rights for...
The ARP includes robust opportunities to expand Medicaid in states that need it most – like North Carolina. Giving millions to states to expand Medicaid with enhanced funding to weather the ongoing covid impact.
The pandemic has hit North Carolina hard, including people I love. I have watched friends, family and neighbors struggle and I know I’m not the only one. More than 11,000 North Carolinians have died from COVID and that doesn’t take into account those of us...