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.

Afternoon Roundup: No More “Female at Birth” Policy for Golf Association, Judge Disses Christian University’s Anti-Choice Claims

Amie Newman

LPGA ditches their "female at birth" policy, Speaker John Boehner has some frighteningly invasive anti-choice legislative plans in store for Americans, BPA may be responsible for infertility problems in women and is the Pope inspiring more religious mind expansion as it relates to condoms and birth control?

Afternoon Roundup: Personhood in Florida, Margaret Cho on Bristol Palin, Zimbabwe’s Women’s Health Activists Speak Up!

Amie Newman

Florida is (unsuccessfully) attempting to get a Personhood measure on the ballot, New York's domestic workers are finally guaranteed one day off a week and paid leave, anti-choice advocates succesfully interject anti-choice language into a law about women veterans access to health care and Margaret Cho speaks out about Bristol Palin?

The Launch of ella: A New Way to Prevent Pregnancy, Another Anti-Choice Controversy

Amie Newman

A new form of emergency contraception, ella, is now available to women in the United States. And predictably, the far right is up in arms.

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Headed For Extinction?

Amie Newman

The Pentagon released the results of a review of the military if Don't Ask, Don't Tell were to be repealed. The conclusion? It's time to say good-bye to discrimination based on sexual orientation in the military. Our soldiers can handle it - and so can military leadership.

Afternoon Roundup: Minnesota State Rep. Caught With Gun Outside Planned Parenthood, Republican Lawmakers Say No to Women Vets?

Amie Newman

Republican House leadership feels the need to meet with violent, anti-choice "activist" Randall Terry while a Republican state representative in Minnesota is caught with a gun outside a Planned Parenthood.

Post-Election: Will Wisconsin Be the Next Battleground Over Pro-Choice, Pro-Health Policies?

Amie Newman

Governor-elect of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, has worked hard over the years to wrest control away from women when it comes to their own medical and health decisions.

Repro Rights Afternoon Style: Protesting the Death of a Pregnant Prisoner, Planned Parenthood Sues Alaska

Amie Newman

Where are the pro-life forces when a pregnant inmate dies from lack of reproductive health care in jail and how can we prevent this from happening to other women? Planned Parenthood sues the state of Alaska, and it seems that physicians are giving women seeking birth control unnecessary pelvic exams...

Amie Newman

Afternoon Roundup: No More “Female at Birth” Policy for Golf Association, Judge Disses Christian University’s Anti-Choice Claims

Afternoon Roundup: Personhood in Florida, Margaret Cho on Bristol Palin, Zimbabwe’s Women’s Health Activists Speak Up!

The Launch of ella: A New Way to Prevent Pregnancy, Another Anti-Choice Controversy

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Headed For Extinction?

Afternoon Roundup: Minnesota State Rep. Caught With Gun Outside Planned Parenthood, Republican Lawmakers Say No to Women Vets?

Post-Election: Will Wisconsin Be the Next Battleground Over Pro-Choice, Pro-Health Policies?

Repro Rights Afternoon Style: Protesting the Death of a Pregnant Prisoner, Planned Parenthood Sues Alaska

Repro Rights Afternoon Style: Silent Birth, AIDS denialism, Tea Party Abortion Argument and More

Feminist Health Center Closes After Thirty Years, What Does It Mean for Women?

Repro Rights Roundup: Afternoon-Style

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