Vaginas and Violence

You can't stop rape and domestic violence without curtailing male dominance, and social conservatives support male dominance. No wonder the "The Vagina Monologues" meets with resistance.

Unsafe Abortion Leads to Maternal Death

In Zimbabwe, abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, fetal impairment, or to preserve a woman's health, is illegal - and if caught, women face jail terms. As a result, many women resort to clandestine, unsafe and life-threatening abortion methods.

Have We Lost Our Minds?

The national chairman of Republicans for Choice sets the record straight on the group's "non-endorsement" of Sen. John McCain.

Hand in Hand

It’s crucial to align domestic and international family planning and reproductive health movements in order to save women’s lives.

Bill is Back, This Time on Abortion

Bill Clinton blasts anti-choice hecklers disrupting his speech, inserting himself back into the middle of his wife's campaign after a few weeks of relative quiet. This time his anger is aimed at the right people.

Imaginary Problems and Imaginary Voters

Huckabee confuses voters, St. Louis wars on T-shirts, and people are having sex for fun, creating mass chaos in the streets. Plus, an interview with sex therapist Marty Klein about panics over problems people don't have.

Missing: The “Right” Babies

Europe is failing to produce enough babies--the "right" babies--to replace its old and dying. It's "the baby bust," "the birth dearth" : modern euphemisms for old-fashioned race panic as low fertility among white "Western" couples coincides with an increasingly visible immigrant population across Europe.