September 30th is the 35th "anniversary" of the Hyde Amendment. Hyde's legacy is that pitted women of different economic classes against each other, and resulted in a pattern of trading reproductive health care for other health coverage.
You know the jobs and the deficit and the country's economic crisis? Florida Republican Congressman Cliff Stearns apparently does not. Instead he's spending taxpayer funding on a duplicative effort to "audit" Planned Parenthood.
Navigating sex and sexual relationships after assault can be challenging: how do you deal with a relationship that seemed to facilitate healing at first, but now seems to be standing in the way, especially when the roof over your head seems to require it?
Obviously, Google cannot censor search results specifically to please one random politician, but Rick Santorum feels that the automated monopoly is part of some pernicious conspiracy to embarrass him.
Jennie Linn McCormack, the Idaho woman who was prosecuted by the state under a 40-year old law that made it illegal for a woman to induce her own abortion, won a temporary court order Friday barring enforcement of the law under which she was had been charged.
At a time when America is facing the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression, when poverty rates in Texas are rising, and the uninsured rate in Texas is the highest in the nation, the Republican dominated Texas legislature cut funding for programs prove to helping working women while increasing funding for religious organizations that do nothing for women’s health care.
In the season premier of Grey's Anatomy, a main character has an abortion because she does not want to become a mother. This is good news for reproductive rights when we think of television as both a reflection of current attitudes and means of moving them forward.
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