Picture this. While everyone's attention is focused on the upcoming presidential election, President Bush tries to slip in a new regulation that undermines women's access to health care. And before you know it, millions of women can't get the basic health care they need.

Unfortunately, the New York...

It's our time to put a president in the White House who cares about women's health, take back our country, and move once again with progress and commitment to the future. That's what Hillary Clinton said when she suspended her presidential campaign and that's what my mother Ann Richards would...

A tried and true tactic of the far right is to inject abortion into the presidential campaign as a divisive tactic. Their goal is twofold: to obscure the broader issue of reproductive and preventive health care and to politicize private, personal decisions made by women and families.

Both Senator...

For some of us, elections are the way we measure history, like sixth grade graduations or first proms.

Growing up in Texas, my family's life was always marked by elections, mainly valiant defeats for noble causes or candidates. As progressives, my parents always backed the losing side, particularly in the...

It's hard to imagine a more stinging indictment of the Bush administration policy that supports a "just say no" approach to sex education than the current collision of popular culture and real life. Teen sex and unintended pregnancy are everywhere -- from television to movies to the cover of People...

My college-aged daughter Lily, home for the summer, ran into the kitchen early Friday morning with The New York Times in her hand in disbelief.

"Mom, have you seen this? It's just wrong."

She opened the paper and pointed to an op-ed titled "Why Pro-Choice Is a Bad Choice...

John McCain's presidential campaign has taken a troubling turn. This week, the Los Angeles Times reported that John Weaver, a strategist for John McCain's presidential campaign, verbally attacked Planned Parenthood, the nation's leading reproductive health care advocate and provider. Weaver called the 90-year old...

It is dark day for women's health and safety.

Yesterday the highest court in the country voted 5-4 to uphold the federal abortion ban passed by Congress and signed by President Bush in 2003. The ban criminalizes abortions in the second trimester of pregnancy that doctors say are often the...

This year's midterm elections are about one thing -- change. We have all heard the refrain: Americans don't think we are moving in the right direction. Ask almost anyone except House Speaker Dennis Hastert and the president's dog, Barney, and they will tell you that this country is on the...

Planned Parenthood's helped generations of women prevent unintended pregnancy for 90 years -- and soon help could be on the way.

Earlier this month, FDA officials met with Barr Pharmaceuticals to discuss the drug company's application to make Plan B emergency contraception (EC) available over the counter. Not coincidentally, the...