But Judy Waxman, vice president for health and reproductive rights at the National Women’s Law Center, says Liberty’s case isn’t the one that will get there.
“They’ll throw spaghetti at the wall, but this is not going to be decided until the regulations come out [this summer] and they become subject to this,” Waxman said.
Fatima Goss Graves, vice president for education and employment at the National Women’s Law Center, said coverage of the gender gap may help end “good old-fashioned discrimination” on pay for women.
“We should be making it as easy as possible to help parents get good child care, because it’s critical to their working,” said Helen Blank, director of Child Care and Early Learning at the National Women’s Law Center. “Instead, we tie them up in knots.”
The bill is aimed at strengthening the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, which prohibits workplace discrimination based on pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.
1. Restore cuts from sequestration to Title X family planning programs and Title V maternal and child health services. The National Women’s Law Center calculates that a 5 percent cut to the budgets of each program will reduce them by $15 million and $32.5 million, respectively.
LAWMAKERS, SOCIAL SECURITY COALITION UNVEIL REPORT: Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), John Conyers (D-Mich.), Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) and David Cicilline (D-R.I.), along with the Strengthen Social Security Coalition, National Women’s Law Center and the National Seniors Citizens Law Center will unveil a new Transition Report For The New Commissioner of Social Security on Wednesday.
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act is expected to be re-introduced in the Senate and House today, a bill that would require employers to “make reasonable accommodations to employees stemming from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the employer,” according to the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC).
Women’s health advocacy groups say Sebelius’s restriction on Plan B is unjustified by science. “Once [Plan B] has been deemed safe and effective, it should be available with no barriers that aren’t medically necessary,” asserts Sharon Levin, director of federal reproductive health policy at the National Women’s Law Center in Washington, D.C.
If she meets income requirements, the Medicaid program can also “wrap around” a young woman’s parents’ policy and provide maternity coverage her parents’ plan lacks, says Karen Davenport, director of health policy at the National Women’s Law Center. “It’s not necessarily a seamless, easy thing to do,” says Davenport, “but it would cover the gaps.”
"You have to show an ID either way," said Judy Waxman of the National Women's Law Center. Waxman predicts the appeals court will stay Korman's decision until a hearing can be scheduled on the appeal. "This could take months again until we get the Second Circuit decision," Waxman said in a telephone interview.
