REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL for REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL

Family issues/Abortion/Adoption FAM

H.R.2478 & S.2793, Stop Deceptive Advertising for Womens Services Act; S.3676 Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2011 (international family-planning funding, global gag rule); S.3686, Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2011 (Tiahrt amendment, Title X family-planning program, teen-pregnancy prevention program, funding for abstinence-only programs, the Federal Refusal Clause, the Hyde amendment); S.3677, Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2011 (DC ban, FEHB abortion ban, FEHB contraceptive-equity provision); Food and Drug Administration, approval of emergency contraceptive medication, ella; Department of Health and Human Services, abortion coverage ban in Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Program created under federal health-care reform; H.R.5136 & S.3454, National Defense Authorization Act for FY11 (abortion ban); H.R.3081, Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 (DC ban, FEHB abortion ban, FEHB contraceptive-equity provision, Title X family-planning program, teen-pregnancy prevention program, funding for abstinence-only programs, Federal Refusal Clause, Hyde amendment, international family-planning funding, global gag rule, ban on abortion services for women in prison, ban on abortion litigation through the Legal Services Corporation); H.R.4594 & S.2982, International Violence Against Women Act (global gag rule); H.R.6283 & S.3878, Repealing Ineffective and Incomplete Abstinence-Only Program Funding Act of 2010; H.R.5939, No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act; H.R.847 & S.1334, James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010; S.3636, Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2011 (ban on abortion services for women in prison, ban on abortion litigation through the Legal Services Corporation); Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), guidelines for implementation of the Medicaid family-planning state option; selected judicial nominations (Goodwin Liu, nominee to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; Elena Kagan, nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court).

Contacted: SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)

Bills named: S. 3636 (111th), H.R. 3081 (111th), S. 3454 (111th), S. 1334 (111th), H.R. 6283 (111th), H.R. 2478 (111th), S. 3686 (111th), S. 3677 (111th), H.R. 4594 (111th), H.R. 5136 (111th), H.R. 5939 (111th), S. 2793 (111th), H.R. 847 (111th), S. 3878 (111th), S. 3676 (111th), S. 2982 (111th)