BIRTH CONTROL

Amendments

Insurance: ensure that employers that provide health benefits to their employees cannot deny any specific health benefits, including contraception coverage (S. 2578), S4560 [16JY]

Articles and editorials

Democrats on Hobby Lobby—‘‘Misspeaks’’ ‘‘Opinion’’ and Overheated Rhetoric, S4525 [16JY]

Hobby Lobby Decision and Its Distortions, S4526 [16JY]

Bills and resolutions

Abortion: ensure that women seeking an abortion receive an ultrasound and the opportunity to review the ultrasound before giving informed consent to receive an abortion (see H.R. 5551), H7882 [18SE]

Armed Forces: ensure women members and their families have access to contraception and family planning (see S. 2687), S5134 [30JY] (see H.R. 5524), H7675 [17SE]

Contraceptives: ensure employers cannot prohibit access, call for an FDA study on whether prescriptions are necessary for contraceptives, and allow use of certain health accounts to purchase over-the-counter drugs (see S. 2605), S4502 [15JY]

——— establish a public education and awareness and access program on emergency contraception (see S. 2876), S5782 [18SE]

——— establish certain duties for pharmacies to ensure provision of FDA-approved contraception (see S. 2625), S4620 [17JY]

Insurance: ensure that employers that provide health benefits to their employees cannot deny any specific health benefits, including contraception coverage (see S. 2578), S4336 [9JY] (see H.R. 5051), H6035 [9JY]

——— require employers to notify employees and prospective employees if the employer is exempted or excepted from covering certain health services (see S. 2629), S4620 [17JY]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: ensure religious conscience protections relative to insurance coverage of certain women’s preventive health services (see H.R. 4396), H2913 [3AP]

Peace Corps: subject volunteers to same limitations regarding coverage of abortion services as Peace Corps employees (see S. 2291), S2718 [6MY] (see H.R. 4578), H3446 [6MY]

U.N.: prohibit U.S. contributions to the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) (see H.R. 4362), H2801 [1AP]

Cloture motions

Insurance: ensure that employers that provide health benefits to their employees cannot deny any specific health benefits, including contraception coverage (S. 2578), motion to proceed, S4451 [14JY], S4535 [16JY]

Motions

Insurance: ensure that employers that provide health benefits to their employees cannot deny any specific health benefits, including contraception coverage (S. 2578), S4443 [14JY], S4461 [15JY], S4513 [16JY]

Remarks in House

Abortion: pro choice versus right to life, H190 [14JA], H240, H242, H452, H453, H454–H460, H467 [15JA], H1229 [16JA]

——— protect lives of born and unborn persons (H.R. 1091), E74 [15JA]

District of Columbia: prohibition on use of local funding to cover abortions for low-income women, H158–H160 [10JA], H6046 [10JY], H6125 [11JY], H6179 [14JY], H9285 [11DE]

Health: protect rights of conscience relative to requirements for coverage of specific items and services and prohibit certain abortion-related discrimination in government activities, H1704 [10FE]

——— 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), E74 [15JA]

Insurance: ensure that employers that provide health benefits to their employees cannot deny any specific health benefits, including contraception coverage (H.R. 5051), H6238–H6240 [15JY], H6356, H6359–H6363 [17JY], E1186 [17JY]

——— prohibit discrimination based on gender, including higher premiums for women or loss of contraception or maternity care, H7436 [11SE]

National Sanctity of Human Life Day: observance, H236 [15JA]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: ensure religious conscience protections relative to insurance coverage of certain women’s preventive health services, H4823 [22MY]

——— impact of fines on for-profit corporations for not fulfilling health insurance coverage requirements to offer contraceptives, H2638–H2641 [25MR]

Pelosi, Representative: Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., Margaret Sanger Award recipient, H2734 [27MR]

Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.: funding, H2810 [2AP]

Sanger, Margaret: personal beliefs and views on birth control, H2734 [27MR]

Supreme Court: anniversary of Roe v. Wade decision, H240, H241, H242, H453, H454–H460, H467 [15JA], E73, E74 [15JA], E151 [3FE]

——— decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp., v. Burwell relative to requirements for health insurance coverage of contraceptives by for-profit corporations, H5862 [8JY], H6238–H6240 [15JY], H6312 [16JY], H6356, H6359–H6361 [17JY]

——— hearing of arguments in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp., v. Sebelius relative to requirements for health insurance coverage of contraceptives by for-profit corporations, H2370, H2371, H2372, H2373, H2374 [13MR], H2592, H2600–H2609 [24MR], H2615, H2619, H2620, H2636–H2642 [25MR], H2658, H2684 [26MR], H2735 [27MR], E399 [14MR]

Remarks in Senate

Contraceptives: ensure employers cannot prohibit access, call for an FDA study on whether prescriptions are necessary for contraceptives, and allow use of certain health accounts to purchase over-the-counter drugs (S. 2605), S4475 [15JY], S4514, S4522 [16JY]

——— establish certain duties for pharmacies to ensure provision of FDA-approved contraception (S. 2625), S4622 [17JY]

Insurance: ensure that employers that provide health benefits to their employees cannot deny any specific health benefits, including contraception coverage (S. 2578), S4365 [9JY], S4368 [10JY], S5401 [9SE], S5481, S5493 [10SE]

——— ensure that employers that provide health benefits to their employees cannot deny any specific health benefits, including contraception coverage (S. 2578), motion to proceed, S4443, S4451 [14JY], S4461–S4468, S4474–S4476, S4480–S4483, S4489–S4491, S4495 [15JY], S4513, S4516, S4519–S4535, S4537 [16JY]

Supreme Court: decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp., v. Burwell relative to requirements for health insurance coverage of contraceptives by for-profit corporations, S4205, S4212 [7JY], S4388 [10JY], S4451 [14JY], S4461–S4468, S4474–S4476, S4481–S4483, S4489–S4491, S4495 [15JY], S4516, S4519–S4529, S4531, S4533–S4535, S4537 [16JY], S5401 [9SE], S5493 [10SE]

——— hearing of arguments in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp., v. Sebelius relative to requirements for health insurance coverage of contraceptives by for-profit corporations, S1646 [13MR], S1707–S1711 [25MR]

Women: access to family planning and reproductive services under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, S1503 [11MR]

——— tribute to congressional accomplishments and agenda relative to women, S4896 [24JY]

Texts of

S. 2629, Preventive Care Coverage Notification Act, S4622 [17JY]