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HEALTH & REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM
Victories for Women’s Health & Reproductive Freedom
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Successfully advocating for sex education that is medically accurate, respectful of sexuality, and comprehensive. See Washington’s Healthy Youth Act.
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Drafting and helping pass ground-breaking legislation requiring hospital emergency rooms to provide emergency contraception to sexual assault survivors.
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Stopping pharmacists from imposing their personal beliefs on patients.
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Ensuring that hospital mergers between secular and religious institutions do not mean reduced services for women.
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Protecting women’s access to reproductive health clinics. Aradia Women’s Health Center v. Operation Rescue.
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Successfully advocating against criminal penalties for women who use controlled substances while pregnant. State v. Dunn.
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Leading the fight to pass Washington’s Reproductive Privacy Act, codifying a woman’s fundamental right to decide whether or not to have a child.