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.

Washington State Moves to Allow Pharmacies to Refuse to Dispense EC

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In an unexpected move, the Washington State Board of Pharmacy moves to change a rule which prevents pharmacies from being able to refuse to dispense emergency contraception. But the public outcry, once again, may be too much to ignore.

Top of the News: Afternoon Edition

Amie Newman

A brief round-up of today's afternoon stories related to reproductive health, rights and justice for those late to the party, on the "other coast," or who aren't afraid to call themselves "news-junkies"!

Top of the News: Afternoon Edition

Amie Newman

Starting today, we'll post a quick set of links to those stories we missed or didn't have time to write about each day. Scan the links and click through to read more!

Sexism in the Midterms: Politicians Win, Women Lose

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Sexism was a successful strategy in this election - for male Democrats and Republicans. The only group for which it didn't work so well was women.

Patty Murray Win Means Pro-Choice Women Lead Washington State

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Democratic U.S. Senator Patty Murry has won a fourth term, beating out Republican challenger Dino Rossi. But the state still faces a huge budget shortfall which means cuts to family planning and maternity care for lower income women.

Paying Drug-Addicted Women To Get Sterilized: Choice or Coercion?

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Project Prevention pays low-income, drug-addicted women to get sterilized or use a long-term form of contraception. Is it coercion or simply "reproductive choice?"

Last-Minute GOP Ad Against WA State Sen. Rodney Tom Falsely Accuses On “Women’s Issues”

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Washington State Senator Rodney Tom is falsely accused of wanting to "abolish women's rights" in a last minute attack mailer, today. Tom and women's rights organizations come back with the truth.

Arkansas School Board VP Resigns After Hateful Anti-Gay Facebook Posts

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Former Arkansas school board member and father of two young children, Clint McCance, finally resigns after being called out for his facebook postings claiming he'd wear purple only if young gay people "all committed suicide."

Catching Up With Arizona’s Immigration Law

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It's no secret that if politicians like Nevada's U.S. Senate GOP candidate, Sharron Angle, and GOP Republican Governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, manage to win tomorrow, common-sense, humane immigration reform may very well die on the vine.

New Mother’s (False) Positive Drug Test Leads to Baby’s Removal…Poppy-Seed Bagel the Culprit

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The ACLU filed a federal lawsuit today on behalf of a Pennsylvania couple whose newborn was removed from their care over the mother's positive drug test. Only she wasn't on drugs - she had eaten a poppy-seed bagel before going into labor and the hospital who gave the test made a series of bad mistakes.

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