Not only is the Rio +20 outcome document, “The Future We Want,” silent on sexual and reproductive rights, but during the negotiations many of the EU and G77 countries who have been progressive on these issues in the past were completely silent.
The radically anti-choice State Board of Healing Arts has stripped Dr. Ann Neuhaus’s medical license, saying her mental health exemptions for teens and pre-teens were too lenient.
Michigan's new onslaught of anti-choice legislation gets attention....for the word "vagina". Washington parents lose their minds over sex education. Also: Looking at the intersection of sex and disability.
Earlier this month the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments on the constituitonality of the state of Ohio's 2004 mifepristone ban in a case that could present a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade. Legal standards are increasingly replacing medicinal standards as the guide for what constitutes acceptable medical care, and conservative justices either don’t understand that or they don’t care.
The Obama Administration is right to require insurance companies to cover contraception for public employees. The bishops are wrong to seek to use the government to limit the decision-making power of American women. And they are surely wrong to call what they are trying to do freedom.
