Rebecca Sive

Rebecca Sive
Rebecca Sive is the author of two books, Vote Her In: Your Guide to Electing Our First Woman President (2018), and Every Day Is Election Day: A Woman’s Guide to Winning Any Office, from the PTA to the White House (2013). Sive, the recipient of numerous awards for her civic leadership, has been a lecturer at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, women’s leadership consultant and strategist, and is listed in Feminists Who Changed America (2006, University of Illinois Press).

Abort the Executive Order

In the end, passing the healthcare bill was about nothing but abortion and abortion-related deals that will make life all that much harder for women of modest resources facing the (constitutionally-protected) decision to terminate a pregnancy.

Wreckonciliation

To coin a cliche on International Women's Day, I have to ask: Where's the beef?  American women are being told that our most fundamental right--to control our reproductive destiny--should be of no consequence in health reform.