July 6, 2011
RAISING WOMEN'S VOICES network filled President Obama's Twitter Town Hall with tweets about dropping co-pay requirements from contraceptive care. :: CLICK TO READ ARTICLE ::
February 4, 2011
RAISING WOMEN'S VOICES Director of Advocacy Eesha Pandit joined a panel discussion on the Smith bill in the House that would further limit women's access to abortion.
January 24, 2011
RAISING WOMEN'S VOICES held a rally in Pennsylvania to highlight the importance of abortion coverage in the new health insurance exchanges required in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.:: CLICK TO READ ARTICLE ::
September 29, 2010
RAISING WOMEN'S VOICES went live with a video and letter writing campaign, highlighting stories of women with pre-existing conditions who have had abortions to urge HHS to revise the rule barring abortion coverage. Refer to "THE ABORTION FIGHT NEVER ENDS."
September 23, 2010
RAISING WOMEN'S VOICES Director of Advocacy Eesha Pandit discusses the hurdles that health care reform still must address as the first phase of implementation begins to roll out.
September 23, 2010
RAISING WOMEN'S VOICES Co-founder Lois Uttley argues that coverage of birth control should not have to wait a year to be officially included in the list of preventative services that no longer require co-pays.
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April 13, 2010
RAISING WOMEN'S VOICES Director of Advocacy Eesha Pandit returns to GRITtv with Laura Flaunders to discuss the new attacks on women's right to choose in the wake of health care reform and the chilling effect they're intended to have.
April 8, 2010
CINDY PEARSON of RAISING WOMEN'S VOICES is featured in The Wall Street Journal discussing out-of-pocket expenses for women needing abortion coverage if states choose to block this coverage in their exchange plans.
April 1, 2010
RAISING WOMEN'S VOICES is again featured in The Nation reviewing how health care reform ultimately set back abortion rights but that this could be the walk up call for women that abortion rights activists need.
November 23, 2009
RAISING WOMEN'S VOICES is featured in The Nation as one of many women's health organizations that see important gains for women in health care reform despite the threat to abortion funding.
November 10, 2009
RAISING WOMEN'S VOICES Director of Advocacy Eesha Pandit shared her impressions of the Stupak-Pitt Amendment that on GRITv with Laura Flaunders.
November 9, 2009
Raising Women's Voices Featured on Local Radio
RWV co-founder Lois Uttley continues a series of interviews with radio stations around the country on stations like KSFR in Santa Fe, NM and next Tuesday November 17, 2009 she will be on KRXA 540 AM in Monterey, CA.
:: CLICK HERE FOR KSFR INTERVIEW HERE ::
November 3, 2009
RAISING WOMEN'S VOICES Director of Advocacy Eesha Pandit published an article, "The First of All Liberties: Making Health Care Meet All Women’s Needs" in On the Issues: the Progressive Woman's Magazine.
October 29, 2009
RAISING WOMEN'S VOICES Regional Coordinator Terry Kindrick of Montana Women Vote rallied for the public option outside of Senator Max Baucus' office.
October 29, 2009
RAISING WOMEN'S VOICES joined a panel on Democracy Now! to discuss how meaningful health care reform will be in changing how health care is delivered nationwide.
::CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT ::
October 26, 2009
Raising Women's Voices Featured on Local Radio
Recently, RWV co-founder Lois Uttley did a series of interviews with radio stations around the country on stations like WBAI in New York City; WHON in Richmond, Indiana; WIZM in La Crosse, Wisconsin and WCUB-AM in Manitowoc, Wisconsin; WGCV in Columbia, South Carolina; KXCI in Tucson, Arizona; KSFR in Santa Fe, NM; KMMS-AM in Bozeman, Montana; KNOX in Grand Forks, North Dakota; WCAP in Lowell, Massachusetts (which also airs in Boston and Manchester, New Hampshire) and on the Bev Smith Show which airs in major cities nationwide.
:: CLICK HERE FOR THE KSFR (SANTA FE) INTERVIEW ::
September 15, 2009
First Lady Michelle Obama speaks our language
September 9, 2009
RAISING WOMEN'S VOICES is featured in an opinion on the recent fear-mongering tactics against health care reform that specifically targeted women in the Jackson Free Press this week.
August 28, 2009
Check out the coverage of RAISING WOMEN'S VOICES and the Women's Health Care Walk to a pro-health care reform rally in the New York Times.
July 22, 2009
Check out the local coverage of a RAISING WOMEN'S VOICES
Regional Speak-out in Milwaukee, WI. Co-sponsored with the Wisconsin Alliance for Women's Health, the event successfully highlighted why now more than ever we need health care reform for women and their families.
July 15, 2009
RAISING WOMEN'S VOICES is mentioned as one of the major groups mobilizing supporters against dropping abortion coverage in health care reform in Newsweek this week.