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Proclamation 10206

National Women's Health Week, 2021

This proclamation designates May 9-15, 2021 as National Women's Health Week, encouraging Americans to focus on improving women's health and health equity. It highlights the Affordable Care Act's protections for women, COVID-19 vaccination efforts, and maternal health disparities affecting women of color, but contains no binding policy directives or mandates to agencies.

Federal Register Open PDF 86 FR 25945

Impact dates

  1. healthcare.gov special open enrollment period ends

  2. National Women's Health Week begins

Key directives

No discrete directives extracted.

Timeline

Immediate

  • National Women's Health Week observance May 9-15, 2021

Near term (90d)

  • healthcare.gov special open enrollment period through August 15, 2021

Long term

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Risks & tensions

  • Proclamation references pre-existing policy actions (ACA, American Rescue Plan, open enrollment) but does not create new obligations; rhetorical commitments to reproductive health care access may highlight ongoing political tensions
Proclamation 10206: National Women's Health Week, 2021 · Executive Orders