Just Another Business Decision for Komen

In the midst of the many attacks against Planned Parenthood and abortion rights over the past year, the news that Komen for the Cure was halting future funding of breast cancer screening and breast ...Read More

Ask an Abortion Provider: Roe v. Wade Edition

It’s Trust Women Week! Nearly 40 years ago, abortion was legalized in the United States. To mark the occasion, Lola McClure, a registered nurse, interviewed Dr. Nancy Stanwood, an obstetrician/gynecologist, ...Read More

Yet Another Huge, Comprehensive Study Finds that Abortion Doesn’t Cause Mental Health Problems

Last week, the UK Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AMRC), published the world’s largest, most comprehensive and systematic review of mental health outcomes and abortion care. The review included ...Read More

Et Tu, Sebelius? HHS Secretary Blocks Over-the-Counter Plan B

Today, as expected, FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg approved a pharmaceutical application to make emergency contraception Plan B available over the counter without an age restriction. Then, flabbergasting ...Read More

Catholic Bishops Lose Grants, Raise Stink

Yesterday, some House Republicans attempted to sacrifice the reproductive-health needs of trafficking victims to political gamesmanship. (Yes, given the players involved, we think gamesmanship is ...Read More

On World AIDS Day, Remember Women

Joyce has 11 children. Mary says this casually, as if it’s commonplace. And in her experience as a midwife in Uganda, it is. For women in her community, contraception is largely out of reach. Employment ...Read More

Should Organized Religion Have More Rights Than Women?

Right now, Catholic bishops, charities, schools and universities are demanding exemptions from new rules requiring that insurance plans cover contraception for women, free of charge. And President ...Read More

Need Birth Control? Don’t Bother Asking Apple’s Siri

Want to use Apple’s new interactive “Siri” on your iPhone? “She” has tons of information–just as long as you don’t ask about birth control, abortion, emergency ...Read More

Will Obama Betray the Other 99 Percent?

There is another 99 percent group in our country, distinct from but inextricably entwined with the now more familiar #99Percent, those everyday Americans, who–in such a brilliant framing by ...Read More

A Message about Birth Control from the 71 Percent

Growing up a New Yorker, I was fortunate enough to live in a state that mandated that insurance plans cover birth control. Growing up the daughter of a nurse who was employed by a Catholic hospital, ...Read More

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