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Are there "good" reasons for inducing labor through medical intervention? It's a loaded question for which different providers may give you different answers. Even amongst like-minded communities of midwives - CPMs or CNMS, or more traditional medical providers like ob-gyns,...

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Last week, Abby Johnson, the director of a Texas Planned Parenthood health center that provides abortions, among its other services including birth control, annual exams and sexually transmitted infection prevention and treatment, resigned citing a "conversion" that caused her to see...

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Is the fact that women experience discrimination in regards to health insurance coverage even debatable at this point? It is critical that health reform discussions address the health issues that disproportionately affect women in this country. Whether we're discussing a...

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"The Perils of Home Births" screams the title of the segment at the bottom of the screen in a Today Show attempt to cover the realities of homebirth in the United States.

"Is avoiding the clinical nature of...

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This week (August 1 - 7) is World Breastfeeding Week and August is National Breastfeeding Awareness Month. With that in mind, it seems like a good time to look at the ways in which feminism and breastfeeding...

Dr. Leroy Carhart, a physician who provides abortions for women in need and who for many years provided later term abortions in his home state of Nebraska, will temporarily take over Dr. Tiller's medical practice in Kansas.

Dr. Carhart, still a practicing provider, is most well known for his...

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I had my son when I was thirty years old, ten years ago, and as green as one can be when it came to any and all things parenting related. While pregnant, I...

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According to the LA Times, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has accepted President-Elect Obama's offer to become the new Secretary of Health and Human Services. Daschle is currently a fellow with the Center for American Progress, a Democratic think tank. It...

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Planned Parenthood Federation of America with the ACLU and the Center for Reproductive Rights sent a letter today to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs criticizing them for failing "to...

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It was the exchange that reproductive and sexual health advocates had been waiting for.

Finally, a discussion about women's health. This isn't "special interest" we're talking about. It's a...

Americans have recently learned that during the 1990s, Wasilla, Alaska, then under the mayoralty of Sarah Palin, charged victims of sexual assault for the rape kits used for evidence collection.

Attacks from progressives have been swift and harsh. There is good reason to hunt down the facts about the...

"Misogyny wears many guises, reveals itself in different forms which are dictated by class, wealth, education, race, religion and other factors but its chief characteristic is its pervasiveness."

- Bell Hooks quoting Joan Smith in Hook's 1994 article, "Sexism and Misogyny: Who Takes the Rap?"

Seems like a...

Barack Obama waxed not-so-poetic about late term abortion, the federal abortion ban and the validity of mental health exceptions in said ban to the Christian magazine Relevant last week, telling the interviewer that states should have the right to restrict or ban late term abortions. And Obama made no...

"Choice" has the potential to be a change-maker this election season, according to the results of a new NARAL Pro-Choice America poll.

The poll was conducted in twelve "battleground" states including Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania -- several of which currently have significant anti-choice state...