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39 Ensuring Access to Comprehensive Reproductive Health Information and Services Catholics for a Free Choice $60,000 Washington, D.C. Frances Kissling, President Established in 1973, Catholics for a Free Choice is an educational organization that supports the right to legal reproductive health care, family planning, and abortion. CFFC plays an important role in balancing pro-choice Catholic perspectives with the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy's opposition to contraception, abortion, assisted fertility, and a wide range of reproductive options. In recent years, the Church has joined forces with Protestant fundamentalist "pro-life" activists to make major gains in extending their vision of "morality" to the public at large, convincing policymakers to slash funds for family planning programs and pass laws making abortion services more difficult to obtain. In view of these developments, CFFC has worked to expose the links between these groups and to draw public attention to their impact on policymaking through a series of illuminating studies and reports. These include a series of monographs that describe the role played by the Catholic Bishops in denying women access to contraceptive and abortion services; the anti-choice activities of conservative Catholic organizations and their connections with non-Catholic fundamentalist groups; and the Church's involvement in health care delivery and the implications of that involvement for access to reproductive health care. This year, our grant will support CFFC's continued research on the Catholic Right as well as its efforts to establish a coalition of progressive Catholic groups to challenge the Catholic Right.
40 Center for Reproductive Law and Policy $100,000 New York, New York Janet Benshoof, President The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy was established in 1992 with the mission of ensuring that women have access to comprehensive reproductive health care. During the same year, the Supreme Court ruled in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey that state-imposed waiting periods, counseling, and parental consent requirements do not impose an "undue burden" on women seeking abortion and are, therefore, constitutional. The Casey ruling has encouraged anti-choice activists in states across the country to propose similar restrictions, just as the federal Hyde Amendment spawned legislation denying Medicaid coverage for abortion in most states. With our support, Center staff will continue to pursue litigation in federal and state courts challenging the discriminatory exclusion of abortion from Medicaid coverage, and arguing that restrictions like those upheld in Casey do in fact constitute an undue burden for women seeking abortion. The Center will also conduct litigation and develop legal remedies to counter anti-choice violence. Staff will provide pro-choice activists, policymakers, and members of the press with legal analyses of court decisions and legislative proposals addressing the full range of reproductive rights concerns. Ms. Foundation for Women $65,000 New York, New York Marie C. Wilson, President Established in 1975, the Ms. Foundation supports grassroots women's groups working on issues such as discrimination, domestic violence, economic empowerment, and non-sexist education. In its grantmaking, priority is given to groups whose access to financial support is limited, and that sponsor community-based self-help initiatives. Its funding is also distinguished by a policy of helping grantees develop the skills they need to become effective agents of social change. In 1988, with the future of reproductive rights ever more tenuous and the battle lines shifting to the individual states, the Ms. Foundation expanded its work in this area with a significant new component: the Reproductive Rights Coalition Fund. The Fund is designed to support the development of coalitions organizing around reproductive rights issues in targeted states throughout the country, and to sustain these organizations so that they endure beyond the current controversy. Aimed at harnessing the energy of individual groups and encouraging them to work collectively, the Fund provides financial and technical assistance to state and regional coalitions organizing around reproductive rights issues in targeted states. Our grant supports this effort.
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