Category Archives: Reproductive Rights

From this site: A new study released by Rep. Henry A. Waxman finds that federally funded pregnancy resource centers often mislead pregnant teens about the medical risks of abortion, telling investigators who posed as pregnant 17-year-olds that abortion leads to … Continue reading →

Katha Pollitt’s recent column in 5/30/06 issue of The Nation is available now. Below are the opening paragraphs: Imagine a vaccine that would protect women from a serious gynecological cancer. Wouldn’t that be great? Well, both Merck and GlaxoSmithKline recently … Continue reading →

Reproductive Justice 101 – Training on June 14th in Washington DC Are you a Law Student working in the Washington, DC area this summer? If so, Law Students for Choice and the National Women’s Law Center would like to invite … Continue reading →

From the Daily Feminist News: In the past eight years, unplanned pregnancies, births and abortions have risen among the nation’s poorest women, while these rates have fallen for more affluent women. This data comes from a report by the Guttmacher … Continue reading →

Below is a large excerpt from one of Aspazia’s posts at Mad Melancholic Feminista: …A month ago, I decided to transfer all of my OBGYN care to Planned Parenthood. I want Planned Parenthood to get my money and continue to … Continue reading →

“The Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP) is dedicated to engaging young women on their terms around the critical issue of reproductive freedom. Historically, the reproductive rights movement has marginalized young women, women of color, and low-income women, among other groups. … Continue reading →

Last month, during the panel discussion at Pace Law School on “Feminism and Women Under 40,” an audience member asked, “Can a person be pro-life and still be a feminist?”   Opinion among the panelists and audience members was divided. … Continue reading →

Shakespeare’s Sister writes: For 8 years, every form of abortion has been illegal in El Salvador, even in the event that the mother’s life is in danger. There are no exceptions. In the event of an ectopic pregnancy, the fallopian … Continue reading →

From this site, via Bitch Ph.D.

Salon recently published “The Battle to ban Birth Control” by Priya Jain, which is informative in and of itself, and also contains some useful links. Below is a short excerpt, but you can read the whole thing here: “…the anti-birth-control … Continue reading →

From Indianz.com, via I Blame The Patriarchy: “When Governor Mike Rounds signed HB 1215 into law it effectively banned all abortions in the state with the exception that it did allow saving the mother’s life. There were, however, no exceptions … Continue reading →

At The American Prospect she writes: …”The past two years have seen one of the most contentious and closely watched presidential contests in 40 years, the retirement of the first female Supreme Court justice, the appointment of two new justices, … Continue reading →

“Fired Up Missouri” reports: “Yesterday, during debate on HB1010, the budget for the Departments of Health and Mental Health, House Republicans voted to ban county health clinics from providing family planning services. “So the GOP has finally come clean that … Continue reading →

From The Guardian on Feb 6, 2006: “The British government will today publicly defy the United States by giving money for safe abortion services in developing countries to organisations that have been cut off from American funding. “Nearly 70,000 women … Continue reading →

The National Center for Men has brought a lawsuit it is calling: ROE vs. WADE… FOR MEN TM Yes, the organization is apparently asserting trademark rights in the phrase “Roe vs. Wade… for Men,” and I can’t be the only … Continue reading →

It’s called “Now What?!”   I admire their nominative restraint!

From “Spittle & Ink,” this is satirical and quite funny if you are a gallows humor aficianado.