This week, the President signed an executive order to roll back women's birth control coverage. 55 million women in the US have benefited from this essential requirement. 

And yesterday, House Republicans passed their dangerous new bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. If the bill becomes law, it will put women's health and economic security in dire jeopardy.

AHCA would take health care coverage away from tens of millions of people, and raise costs for many more.

The bill is especially devastating for women and families. It would:

This week, a federal district court permanently blocked Louisiana’s Texas-style clinic shutdown law, citing the Supreme Court’s recent historic ruling in Whole Woman’s Health v Hellerstedt.

Tomorrow is Equal Pay Day -- the day when Louisiana's women’s average earnings finally catch up with men’s average earnings from the previous year. Women in Louisiana earn only 68 cents to every dollar a man makes. This is even worse for black women, who earn only 47.8 cents and Latino women, who earn only 50.9 cents. This is unacceptable, and that’s why tomorrow, we are joining advocates nationwide in demanding equal pay.

“In seeking to understand this gendered difference in the perception of prisoners, it should be kept in mind that as the prison emerged and evolved as the major form of public punishment, women continued to be routinely subjected to forms of punishment that have not been acknowledged as such…”

-Angela Davis