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By: Melissa Goodman, @mg718 When I get sick, I can take the day off from work and still get paid.

By: Ruth Dawson, @RuthWDawson Running a hospital may not immediately spring to mind as a reproductive justice issue.

By: Shanelle Matthews, ACLU of Northern California

By: Melissa Goodman, @mg718 This morning, I testified before the Los Angeles City Council about how important it is to give working parents paid time off to care for their newborn, newly-adopted or sick children.

Forty-one years after the historic Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, politicians across the nation are falling all over themselves to take away a woman's right to decide when and whether to have a child.

Today, I feel grateful to be a woman in California.

We are so close to expanding abortion access for women in California. The state legislature has passed the Early Abortion Access Bill (AB 154) and it is now headed to the governor's desk.

By Ariela Migdal, ACLU Women's Rights ProjectUntil today, official United States policy banned all women from being assigned to ground combat units. The policy was military-wide and covered our whole gender – no exceptions for women who were fast, strong, excellent marksmen, good at keeping calm under fire, or able to take and give directions in a high-octane situation. It was one of the last remaining relics of official government exclusion of women.

By Jennifer Dalven, Reproductive Freedom ProjectForty years ago today, the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that recognized that a pregnant woman has a right to make her own decision about whether to have a child or have an abortion. Since then, some politicians have been trying to take that decision out of a woman’s hands. But over the past two years, these efforts have reached record levels. In those two short years, our elected representatives found the time to pass almost 140 provisions designed to interfere with a woman and her family’s private decision about abortion.