Amie Newman

Amie Newman is a communications officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Amie’s professional advocacy for women started at the Northwest Women’s Law Center (now Legal Voice) and continued at Aradia Women’s Health Center where, for seven years, she directed the feminist women’s health center’s communications and outreach activities. Amie was also the Submissions Editor for the amazing publication Our Truths/Nuestras Verdades and a former editor of Rewire. Amie lives in Seattle with her family: her designer/musician husband, two beautiful and crazy children, two dogs, two chickens and a pair of fire-bellied toads.

“Protect Life Act” Wins Approval From House Committee

Amie Newman

HR 358, the bill which does anything but protect life, is on its way to a full vote in the House of Representatives where legislators can vote on whether a pregnant woman has more of a right to life than a provider has to his or her religious belief.

Afternoon Roundup: CBS News Correspondent Sexually Assaulted in Egypt

Amie Newman

Maine's newest anti-choice legislation; Mike Huckabee wants you to forget you don't have a job or health care and that the value of your house is plummeting - because the most important issue we face is legal abortion for women; CBS News correspondent is sexually assaulted while covering Egyptian protetsts and more.

What Happens to Washington State Women if Title X Falls?

Amie Newman

If the GOP push to eliminate Title X is successful, along with their attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, low income Americans in need of family planning services in states like Washington State will have nowhere to go.

Afternoon Roundup: Iowa’s Egg-as-Person Bill Would Mean Women-as-Murderers

Amie Newman

Iowa's personhood bill has passed the House; President Obama's FY 2012 budget and women's and girls' health; a new kind of HIV vaccine; and Mississippi midwifery!

IRS Finally Agrees that Breastfeeding Is a Health Issue; Provides Breaks for Breast Pumps

Amie Newman

The IRS announced today that, contrary to it's original decision, the cost of breastfeeding supplies will now be covered under a family's flexible spending account, as pre-tax funds.

Afternoon Roundup: Is There Really A “Debate” About the “Protect Life Act”?

Amie Newman

The "Protect Life" bill is not a debate; Can an iPhone catch you sinning?; Texas sonogram law moves forward; and Right Wing Watch brings you the men and women taking part in the Planned Parenthood smear and defunding campaign.

Halting Second Trimester Abortions in Catholic Hospitals?

Amie Newman

Whose rights are being protected when Catholic hospitals halt second trimester abortions for women who come in with anti-choice activists seeking care?

Afternoon Roundup: Ohio Right to Life Says “No Thanks” to Anti-Choice Heartbeat Bill

Amie Newman

HIV exposed babies who don't contract the disease face greater danger from other diseases; Texas reels back a heinous abortion bill to be something minorly less heinous; Ohio Right to Life says no thanks to the "heartbeat" bill; and more Democratic Senators speak out against the wave of anti-woman, anti-health care mania that's swept the GOP.

Is It “Reasonable” to Fear A Former Abuser?

Amie Newman

In a new bill, Washington State says if a woman has been a victim of domestic violence and seeks to extend a protection order against her abuser, the burden of proof needs to be on the abuser to show he's no longer dangerous - not on the victim to prove that her fear is "reasonable" or not.

Afternoon Roundup: Is There An Abortion Statistics ‘Cover-Up’?

Amie Newman

The first FDA approved drug to reduce the risk of preterm birth; Egyptian women are empowered by the protests; the abortion statistics controversy that isn't; more anti-choice maneuvering in Minnesota.

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