Abortion Is 14 Times Safer Than Childbirth (No Surprise)

This week the world was stunned by the announcement that the much-lauded, seemingly apolitical and altruistic Susan G. Komen for the Cure cut off funding for breast cancer screenings for poor women ...Read More

The Sound of Silence: Where Is the Anti-Choice Outcry Over North Carolina’s Forced Sterilization of Women of Color?

A task force in North Carolina recently ruled that survivors of that state’s eugenics program should be paid $50,000 each in financial compensation. Eugenics is often defined as the science of ...Read More

When “Just Ask Your Doctor” Doesn’t Work

For a woman to ‘ask her physician’ for a safe and effective contraceptive presupposed that she had a physician, that she could afford a contraceptive, and that the physician would be willing ...Read More

Just When You Thought it Was Safe To Be a Woman in Ohio…

After languishing for nearly five months, a “fetal heartbeat” bill that passed the Ohio House in June has reared its ugly head and been referred to a Senate committee. Though Senate president ...Read More

Things That Make You Go Aaargh: Reproductive Rights Edition

Was it Thomas Jefferson who said “eternal vigilance is the price of freedom” or Mad Eye Moody? Oh that’s right, it was actually a woman–suffragist and anti-lynching crusader ...Read More

The Other 99 Percent

There’s not a lot we agree on in this country. And yet, there is one topic around which there is practically universal agreement: the right of women to access birth control. That’s right–99 ...Read More

In Mississippi, and in Every State, We ARE a Pro-Choice, Pro-Birth Control Nation

I just returned from the front lines in Mississippi, where students on campuses across the state united and mobilized to defeat the so-called “personhood” amendment. In the beginning, ...Read More

Defeating Personhood: A Critical But Incomplete Victory for Reproductive Justice

The headlines all say it: “Personhood defeated in Mississippi!” This was a tremendous victory for the pro-choice movement, one that started campaigning on the ground only September 8, years ...Read More

NEWS BRIEF: Mississippi Gov. “Concerned” Over Personhood Amendment

When a guy who can’t even talk about fetal rights without getting all misty-eyed says an initiative to give “personhood” to fertilized eggs goes too far, you know it really goes ...Read More

HERVotes Blog Carnival: Mississippi “Personhood” Amendment

Welcome to the fourth #HERVotes Blog Carnival! This time, we’re writing with an especially urgent focus. There’s an extremely dangerous constitutional amendment to the Mississippi state constitution ...Read More

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