WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, in yet another attack on women’s health, the Trump Administration published a new rule that rolled back the Affordable Care Act provision requiring employers to fully cover birth control on insurance plans. The rule, which could affect as many as 62 million women, will take effect immediately and will allow employers to deny birth control coverage on “religious or moral grounds.”
Ahead of this week’s potential vote on the Cassidy-Graham bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Alaska Wilderness League, the Sierra Club, the League of Conservation Voters, Natural Resources Defense Council, Green Latinos, Green For All, Safe Climate Campaign, Earthjustice, Environmental Working Group, Endangered Species Coalition, Earthworks, Friends of the Earth, Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, Oil Change International, The Climate Reality Project, Clean Water Action, Climate Vote Hawks, and 350.org are again urging Congress not to repeal the ACA and to support Planned Parenthood in a letter sent today.
The Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Climate Justice Alliance, Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), and other women and environment organizations are partnering with the January 21 Women’s March on Washington and driving thousands to both the Washington march and marches around the country. Join organization leaders to learn why and how they’re getting involved in the Women’s March.
Today, the House voted to pass an extreme anti-abortion bill that, among other things, aims to make abortion more expensive and make the antiquated Hyde Amendment permanent, which would prevent insurance companies from providing abortion coverage for women that are on Medicaid, in the military, work for the federal government, that live in Washington, DC, in federal prison, and covered by the Indian Health Service. The bill will now head to the Senate for a vote.
Today, as one of his first executive orders, President Trump reinstated the Global Gag Rule. This executive order bars U.S. aid to groups that provide or promote abortions procedures overseas.
Today, hundreds of Sierra Club members and supporters took to the streets for Women’s Marches across the country.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On Sunday, for the first time in the Sierra Club’s 125-year history, an all female executive committee was elected. The Sierra Club Board of Directors elected Loren Blackford of New York as the new board president. Aaron Mair, immediate past president of the board, reached his term limit this year.