In late February, California Sen. Christine Kehoe (D-San Diego) introduced a bill in the state Senate that would allow nurse practitioners (NPs), physician assistants (PAs), and nurse midwives (CNMs) to provide first trimester aspiration abortion care. Sen. Kehoe withdrew the bill Friday because it lacked enough votes to pass a key legislative committee.
I finally realized that fundamentalists don’t give a hoot about Adam and Eve populating the world. What they care about is keeping the Eve and the Apple story alive. That way, they can blame women for all the evils of the world.
Popular conservative Christian pastor says "America is over" because shameless women who have sex and vote are running wild and screwing everything up.
A sponsored event at University of Washington turned into a bit of a free for all after students made it clear that women don't have "too many rights."
Greece has been in the news for prosecuting HIV positive sex workers and posting the women's photographs on the Internet. The Greek health authorities and many other governments and local authorities that have taken similar actions against sex workers have both the human rights and the public health very wrong.
A federal appeals court today rejected the state of Texas’ efforts to block women’s access to preventive health care at Planned Parenthood health centers while a lawsuit on the issue proceeds.