Former Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) last year cited anti-choice activists' widely discredited smear videos as the basis for removing Planned Parenthood from the state Medicaid program
A new study concludes that contraceptive use is driving the drops in teen pregnancy and abortion. So we should let go of the idea that teens aren't responsible when it comes to their sexual and reproductive health.
Fifty-nine percent of voters in battleground states would likely withdraw support should their member of Congress vote to restrict funding for reproductive health care amid the escalating crisis, according to a new NARAL Pro-Choice America poll.
Although the Obama administration has made numerous attempts to appease religiously affiliated nonprofits who object to providing contraception coverage in health-care plans, many of those nonprofits made it clear last week compromise is not possible.
Phyllis Schlafly was arguably the nation's staunchest anti-feminist, but her diatribes against women in the workforce showed how far out of step she was with U.S. women's lives and needs.
“Congress never delegated to the states the ability to just change the eligibility requirements and withhold Title X funds from entities for reasons that are wholly unrelated to the quality of care that they provide,” said Janel George, director of federal reproductive rights and health for the National Women’s Law Center.
The idea, an organizer said, is to help the mostly white, mostly affluent people in parts of D.C. acknowledge the racist and Islamophobic policing Black and brown communities have been subjected to for the past decade and a half.
Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill are debating privately whether to keep pushing contraception restrictions and other reproductive health-care riders—poison pills for Democrats.
A raft of new restrictions affecting Florida's abortion clinics translate into less care and more fear among the state's providers and prospective patients.
