Despite the difficulties reproductive health advocates faced in the Philippines in 2007, engaging in the debates on RH remained important in continuing to secure "public spaces" for the reproductive health agenda.
Should the 2008 election result in a Democratic President and Congress, advocates need to insist on much more we have asked for before -- bottom-line commitments must be made not only by presidential candidates but by Congressional ones.
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has authored a new bill that would specifically authorize states to use Temporary Assistance to Needy Family (TANF) funds to provide "alternative-to-abortion" services. But abortion rights advocates say the measure would funnel money to anti-abortion advocacy groups.
NARAL Pro-Choice America's newest report finds anti-choice groups and their allies are setting the stage in Missouri, with Governor Blunt at the helm, for a calculated attack on Roe v. Wade and reproductive rights. Voters across the nation should be concerned.
Thirty-five years after Roe, our political landscape is more divided than ever. The tactics born in one 1974 post-Roe Senate campaign in Kansas still shape the politics of personal destruction now engulfing our politics on race and gender.
College is not just a boot camp you attend for four years so you can accumulate credits and do everything in your power to maintain an A average. My Women's Studies courses answered my questions about life - and not just any life, my life.
The political crisis in Kenya is deeply affecting women -- the number of rape survivors seeking treatment has doubled in a Nairobi hospital -- but business as usual in Kenya before the crisis wasn't good for women, either.
Bush's legacy on sexual and reproductive policies is so egregious that there is a real opening to expose the extent to which the Republican party is out of step with mainstream values of the American electorate.
The Democratic debate in Las Vegas tonight evinced remarkable consensus and civility among the three Democratic candidates, and fighting words towards the current Administration and the American political status quo.