The Hyde Amendment is about to turn 40, but this is not a happy birthday. Passed in 1976 as a budget rider and renewed each year since, the Hyde Amendment excludes abortion services from comprehensive federally-administered health care plans.
On Monday, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, a case concerning access to abortion. With a 5-3 decision authored by Justice Stephen Breyer, the Court ruled that requirements in a Texas law place a substantial
On Monday, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Zubik v. Burwell, a consolidation of several cases concerning the accommodation for religious non-profits to provide contraceptive coverage for their employees under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
On Mother’s Day, which will be celebrated on May 8, we will take time to honor our mothers and all of the love and support they give us.
On April 12, people all across the United States will observe Equal Pay Day, which is the day each year that symbolizes when women’s earnings “catch up” to what their male counterparts earned in the previous year.
The gender wage gap has been a problem for
On Wednesday, Assistant Legislative Director Sarah Greenberg and I arrived at the Supreme Court well before sunrise and waited hours in line to attend oral arguments for Zubik v. Burwell, the case about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) contraception accommodation
Purim is a joyous holiday celebrating the story of the book of Esther and how she and her cousin Mordechai saved the Jewish community in Persia from persecution. I have fond memories of attending megillah readings at my synagogue and eating hamantaschen with
Having chaperoned my first trip to a L’Taken seminar last year, I wanted nothing more than to bottle up the experience and take it home to Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills. So this year, that’s exactly what we did.
Rather than let this extraordinary weekend in
On Wednesday, March 2, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, which is arguably the most important abortion case on the Court’s docket in over two decades. This case questions the constitutionality of a Targeted
I’ve been writing a lot recently about the many Supreme Court cases that are being heard this term. Two of these cases deal particularly with reproductive rights. Zubik v. Burwell is about religious non-profits and the Affordable Care Act’s rules on
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