The House passed an "historic" health care bill Saturday night - there was much celebration on the Democratic side and the proverbial wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Republicans.

The bill was historic, all right. Along with the first federal abortion ban in history passed in 2003 (and affirmed...

It's a sweet deal -- real sweet if you're a big medical device manufacturer or hospital executive on the take. And it's been flying under the health care cost radar for years. What is it?

Depends on who you ask. If you ask the CEOs of the big Group Purchasing...

This is going to be a short -- but not too sweet -- message to the President.

Mr. President, in your speech to a joint session of Congress, you managed once again to gratuitously use women's rights to placate the right, assuring the nation that no public funds will...

The Senate health committee has approved its version of a health care bill, largely tracking the House version requiring Americans to get health insurance, with some subsidies to the poor to help them afford coverage.

The Senate finance committee, where the going is likely to get a lot rougher, has...

As the President of the National Organization for Women in Wichita, Kansas in the 1980s, I went toe to toe with the anti-abortion extremists outside the clinic of Dr. George Tiller every Saturday morning while trying to get female patients safely through the doors. And as the main pro-choice spokesperson...

A few minutes before President Obama's commencement speech at Notre Dame, the CNN anchor was intoning that he supports stem cell research and he supports abortion rights, and that he would not shrink from his positions on either. In fact, she said, he was going to use an email he...

Mother's Day is over for another year, but there's a hidden problem with many of our mothers that just goes on and on. Take the case of Ruth, an 89-year-old woman who was in fairly good health when she entered an Iowa nursing home for physical therapy in 2008. When...

Co-authored by Heidi Hartmann, President of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, Washington,DC

As of today, at least 132 cases of the swine flu have been confirmed in the United States, and hundreds more in other countries, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the situation a "public health...

In my book "moderate Taliban" ranks right up there with "organic vienna sausage" as an oxymoron. But the President mentioned reaching out to the so-called moderate militias in Afghanistan a couple of weeks ago in talking about how to quell the violence and fix the mess W left him with....

President Obama attended the annual National Prayer Breakfast yesterday and used the opportunity to tout the reconstitution and expansion of George W. Bush's Office on Faith Based Initiatives. In his remarks the president said he didn't want to favor one religion over another, or "even religious groups over secular groups."...

President Obama is set to sign his first piece of legislation this week - the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. You may remember Ledbetter's case. She worked for Goodyear tire and rubber for most of her career, and found out after many years that she had been paid less than...

President-elect Obama said last week that "when Momma's happy, everybody's happy." He was talking about Michelle settling into DC as first Lady, first Mom, and superstar. But let's hope he means it for all of America's "mommas" -- the women who elected him.

Let's face it - we've been trampled...

It's gift-giving time again, and our President is sure in the spirit -- of the Grinch, that is. Good old George W. is being particularly nasty to women in this season of good will. He's giving the women of the country some new regulations that will keep on giving us...

Watching last week's debate on CNN, which had real-time tracking of how women and men were reacting to the candidates, I couldn't help but remember Ann Richards at the 1988 Democratic convention saying "Poor George [H.W. Bush]. He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his...

Most Americans acknowledge the service of our troops on Memorial Day, whether we agree with our country's involvement in the war or not. But the U.S. Marine Corps is taking advantage of the moment in a new way.

Long a bastion of macho military mystique, they're now actively recruiting...

The one day a year when we honor our mothers is once again upon us. On Sunday, millions of moms will get flowers and candy, a gift or two, and sticky pancakes or burnt toast lovingly prepared by husbands and kids turned cooks-for-a-day.

As individuals, we're pretty fond of...

On Tuesday of this week, seven days after the hard working women of this country mailed off their tax returns, we marked Equal Pay Day. Again. That's the day in April each year when women finally meet the earnings mark their male counterparts reached by December 31 of the previous...

It is ironic that the Pennsylvania primary is being held on Equal Pay Day. That's the day in April every year when women's earnings finally catch up with what men made by December 31 of the previous year. The pay gap is still a stubborn problem, with women who work...

by Martha Burk, Gloria Feldt, Cecelia Fire Thunder, Lulu Flores, Kim Gandy, Ellen Malcolm, Irene Natividad, Ellie Smeal, Gloria Steinem, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones

As women who have spent our careers fighting to protect a woman's right to choose, we recognize that the next president will face serious challenges to...