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White House Mideast adviser Phil Gordon to visit Israel
The White House’s top Middle East official will speak in Israel at a conference on security and meet with Israeli and Palestinian officials.
Phil Gordon, the special assistant to the president and White House coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Gulf Region, will travel to Israel on Feb. 15, Alistair Baskey, a National Security Council spokesman, told JTA in an email.
3 Male Lawmakers Propose Eliminating Obamacare’s Maternity Coverage
Save the Date! JAC's 2015 Power of Women Luncheon
Mark your calendars today!
The 2015 JAC Power of Women luncheon is coming up on June 1st, featuring international news correspondent Amy Kellogg as our keynote speaker, and honoring Barbara Bluhm-Kaul and her daughters Leslie Bluhm and Meredith Bluhm Wolf.
Statement on the U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2014
December 4, 2014
Judge Hears Arguments in Texas Abortion Law Case
Submitted by Miranda Wilgus on Wed, 11/19/2014 - 12:50pmby Andrea Grimes, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check
A federal judge once again advised counsel to keep their arguments focused on legal reasoning, rather than emotional pleas, on the last day of arguments in Whole Woman’s Health v. Lakey, the latest challenge to a Texas’ omnibus anti-abortion law expected to shutter all but seven existing abortion providers in the state come September 1, barring judicial intervention.
Judge Lee Yeakel pushed lawyers both for the plaintiffs—a group of independent Texas abortion providers from across the state who say they have been forced to close clinic doors in the wake of HB 2‘s passage—and the State of Texas, which is defending the law, to answer the key question posed in practically every abortion case since Roe v. Wade: “Exactly what is an undue burden?”
State Department Briefing Addressing US-Israel relations during Operation Protective Edge
Submitted by Miranda Wilgus on Wed, 11/19/2014 - 12:41pm"[T]he United States has an unshakable commitment to Israel’s security. No country has done more to support their security than the United States. Just last week, the President signed a bill providing Israel an additional $225 million in Iron Dome funding during the Gaza crisis. We will continue to provide additional security assistance to Israel going forward. And let me be clear: There has been no change in policy, period." Marie Harf, Deputy Spokesperson for US State Department.
Eyes Turn to Cairo Talks as Cease-Fire Holds in Gaza
Submitted by Miranda Wilgus on Wed, 11/19/2014 - 12:39pmNew Study Shows Privately Insured Women Increasingly Using Prescription contraception with No Out-Of-Pocket Cost
Submitted by Miranda Wilgus on Wed, 11/19/2014 - 12:37pmGuttmacher Institute, September 19, 2014
The proportion of privately insured U.S. women who paid zero dollars out of pocket for oral contraceptive pills increased sharply, from 15% to 67%, between the fall of 2012 (before the ACA’s contraceptive coverage requirement took effect for most women) and the spring of 2014, according to a new Guttmacher study published in the journal Contraception. The study found that the proportion of women who paid nothing out of pocket also increased among those using the vaginal ring (from 20% to 74%) and among those using injectable contraceptives (from 27% to 59%). For women using the IUD, the proportion increased from 45% in the fall of 2012 to 62% in the three subsequent waves of the study combined.
'You Don't Own Me PSA' - Why Women MUST Vote
Submitted by Miranda Wilgus on Wed, 11/19/2014 - 12:33pm"You Don't Own Me" PSA - Upworthy from The Department of Peace on Vimeo.
In 2013, there were more laws passed to limit women’s reproductive rights than in the entire previous DECADE.
Ten million more women than men voted in the last election. In fact 53% of voters were women. That is not a voting block it's a majority. Women have decided literally every election in our lifetimes, yet, midterm turnout is historically low. LET'S CHANGE THAT!