This: http://awomanisnotapreexistingcondition.com/# is completely awesome. If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, you know that being pregnant, having a c-section, being treated for issues stemming from rape, domestic violence and other things that women go through regularly are being treated like pre-existing conditions by health insurance companies–which essentially allows them to not cover [...]
Archive for October, 2009
“Being a woman is not a pre-existing condition” campaign is awesome
October 23, 2009
136 Dead
October 21, 2009
A sobering statistic: in 2008, 136 women that we know of were killed by an intimate partner. TCFV has the full report. Take a few minutes to read it…it gives the names, counties, and circumstances surrounding the deaths, which really puts it into perspective.
http://www.tcfv.org/pdf/dvam2009/ListofWomenKilled.pdf
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