CONTRACEPTIVES

Bills and resolutions

Dept. of HHS: exempt employers from taxes, penalties, or suits for failure to offer insurance coverage for certain women’s preventive services on the basis of religious belief or moral conviction (see H.R. 973), H982 [5MR]

——— reduce adolescent pregnancy, HIV rates, and other sexually transmitted diseases by expanding comprehensive, age-appropriate sex education in schools (see S. 372), S773 [14FE] (see H.R. 725), H546 [14FE]

Developing countries: promote sexual and reproductive health of individuals and couples (see H.R. 3206), H5921 [27SE]

Federal aid programs: prohibit Federal family planning grants from being awarded to any entity that performs abortions (see S. 135), S284 [24JA] (see H.R. 61), H29 [3JA] (see H.R. 217), H52 [4JA]

Foreign aid: prohibit application of restrictive eligibility requirements to foreign nongovernmental organizations based on provision of certain health services (see S. 119), S214 [23JA] (see H.R. 2738), H4724 [18JY]

Health: protect rights of conscience relative to requirements for coverage of specific items and services and prohibit certain abortion-related discrimination in government activities (see S. 1204), S4792 [20JN] (see H.R. 940), H949 [4MR]

Peace Corps: subject volunteers to same limitations regarding coverage of abortion services as Peace Corps employees (see S. 813), S3028 [25AP]

Schools: prohibit Federal education funding for elementary or secondary schools that provide access to emergency postcoital contraception (see H.R. 2943), H5343 [1AU]

Social Security: eliminate abstinence-only education program from the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant (see H.R. 3774), H8117 [16DE]

Women: ensure access to best available overall and reproductive health care and affordable insurance, reduce health disparities, end gender-based violence, and promote economic security (see H. Res. 94), H816 [28FE]

——— ensure access to contraception, preventive services, accurate health care information, cancer screenings, and affordable insurance for pregnancy-related needs and reduce health disparities (see S. Res. 60), S944 [27FE]

——— establish certain duties for pharmacies to ensure provision of FDA-approved contraception (see S. 333), S772 [14FE] (see H.R. 728), H546 [14FE]

Letters

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act advertising campaign by ProgressNow Colorado (organization): Julie Welch, E1853 [12DE]

Protect rights of conscience relative to requirements for health insurance coverage of specific items and services: David Green, Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., S6774 [24SE]

Remarks in House

Dept. of HHS: ensure religious conscience protections relative to insurance coverage of certain women’s preventive health services, H5421 [9SE]

FDA: decision to allow over-the-counter access to emergency-contraceptive drug Plan B One Step without age restriction, H3639 [14JN]

Federal aid programs: prohibit Federal family planning grants from being awarded to any entity that performs abortions (H.R. 217), H64 [14JA], H185, H219 [22JA]

——— prohibit Federal family planning grants from being awarded to any entity that performs abortions (H.R. 61), H76 [14JA], H219 [22JA]

Health: protect rights of conscience relative to requirements for coverage of specific items and services, H6162 [2OC]

——— protect rights of conscience relative to requirements for coverage of specific items and services and prohibit certain abortion-related discrimination in government activities (H.R. 940), H955 [5MR], H1435 [15MR], H3106 [5JN], H3347–H3354 [12JN], E1727 [21NO]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: advertising campaign by ProgressNow Colorado (organization), H7698 [12DE], E1853 [12DE]

Women: establish certain duties for pharmacies to ensure provision of FDA-approved contraception (H.R. 728), E148 [14FE]

——— impact of budget sequestration on programs assisting women including maternal and child health programs, H806–H811 [28FE]

——— impact of Government shutdown on health services, H6121 [2OC]

Remarks in Senate

Health: protect rights of conscience relative to requirements for coverage of specific items and services, S2268 [22MR], S6774 [24SE], S6926 [26SE], S6980 [27SE]

Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.: funding, S4630 [19JN]

Supreme Court: anniversary of decision in Griswold v. Connecticut on the right to marital privacy relative to the use of contraceptives, S3981 [6JN], S4053 [10JN]

Women: ensure access to primary and preventive health care, family planning or birth control, or employer-provided contraceptive coverage, S2250, S2255 [22MR]

——— health care for women, S4629–S4631 [19JN]

Texts of

S. Res. 60, ensure access by women to contraception, preventive services, accurate health care information, cancer screenings, and affordable insurance for pregnancy-related needs and reduce health disparities, S947 [27FE]