This week is National Sex Ed Week, and for the first time in 20 years, we're celebrating it knowing New York City will now require sex education to be taught in schools.
This news is exciting. For too long, too many of our teens have gone without...
Posted July 9, 2010 | 11:08:26 (EST)
New York Post columnist John Wilson recently marked the 40th anniversary of safe, legal abortion in New York State with a bit of a rant.
As you would expect from the New York Post, Mr. Wilson launched into the tired rhetoric of high rates of abortion, the...
Posted April 30, 2010 | 16:20:43 (EST)
The word "test" makes most people cringe. Images of grammar school, pop quizzes, and the SATs come to mind.
Yet I've spent this month talking about a different sort of test - one that could help protect your health, and even save your life.
April was STD awareness...
Posted February 11, 2010 | 09:26:32 (EST)
Originally published on RH Reality Check.
Sex -- when the topic comes up in conversation, it inspires giggles. When that conversation is with a partner, those giggles can turn into stomach knots.
Yet open conversations about sex are some of the most important aspects of a relationship. With...
Posted January 22, 2010 | 10:04:23 (EST)
In the thirty-seven years since Roe V. Wade was decided, we have seen women's access to abortion slowly eroded. There have been legal restrictions, mandatory waiting periods, prohibitions on federal funding, clinic closings, murders of providers, bomb threats, campaigns to stigmatize the procedure, and attempts to ban the procedure completely....
Posted January 23, 2009 | 17:28:02 (EST)
Today, President Barack Obama rescinded the "global gag rule," effectively releasing a stranglehold on women's health around the world.
For the past eight years, this relic of the Bush administration has prevented countless women from receiving the full range of reproductive services they need to protect their health and strengthen...
Posted January 14, 2009 | 15:12:55 (EST)
Recently, Planned Parenthood of New York City released a study entitled "Un Pie En Dos Islas," which delved into the reproductive health of Dominican women in both Santo Domingo and New York City. Among other things, the qualitative study revealed a deep seeded mistrust of the health care...
Posted December 22, 2008 | 14:16:21 (EST)
Smack in the middle of the Holiday Season, outgoing President George W. Bush has given us a present worse than coal.
The Department of Health and Human Services issued a rule today that allows health care workers to deny patients vital care, information and services without the patient even knowing.
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Posted September 28, 2011 | 13:15:17 (EST)