There's no question that the anti-choice takeover of state capitols has emboldened zealots to aggressively push through as many abortion restrictions as possible. It seems like every day there's news about the hundreds of bills percolating in state legislatures across the country. Bill sponsors keep upping the ante...

Too often in Washington, women's health is used as the bargaining chip in political skirmishes and too often, low-income women pay the price.

While last week, the White House and Congressional leaders managed to head off a government shutdown and reject House proposals to strip funding from family planning...

Would you ask someone else to die for your religious beliefs? A new proposal moving through Congress makes clear that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops apparently expects everyone to die for theirs. The same members of Congress who last week attempted to dial back the definition of rape to...

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Dear Mr. Margo,

We are writing to request that CBS reconsider its decision to air an advertisement by the anti-choice group Focus...

Dear Secretary Clinton,

As advocates for women's health and human rights, we write to request your support on a matter of utmost importance for Indian women. We hope that this week when you meet with the Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, you underscore the dire state of...

It's never a good idea to look to primetime television for a fair and accurate depiction of the abortion debate. Without fail, TV writers stretch the facts for dramatic effect, oversimplifying choices. Last Friday's Law & Order episode was no exception. The show's "balanced and thought-provoking" take on abortion...

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In 2007, 38-year-old Sarah Coe* and her husband were finally having their first child, after trying to get pregnant for three years. In her twenty-second week of pregnancy, Sarah's doctors diagnosed a severe condition which denies oxygen to the brain and leads to...

I am deeply disappointed with President Obama's failure to strike government funding restrictions on abortion, particularly the Hyde Amendment, from his proposed budget for 2010. The budget does, however, propose defunding abstinence-only sex education and creating programs aimed at reducing teen pregnancy.

The Hyde Amendment bans federal funding for...

Science was glaringly absent the past eight years in policies created by the Bush administration's federal agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services. Increased emissions of the most significant forms of air pollution were touted as "clear skies." The birth...

Just over a month before President George W. Bush's departure from office, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today issued a new regulation that will drastically hinder women's ability to get reproductive health services--including basic care such as contraception, counseling and information necessary to make decisions about their...

Millions of women heaved a collective sigh of relief with the election of Barack Obama, looking forward to an end to the Bush administration's relentless assault on women's reproductive health and rights. Now, as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we've been given more...

The election of Barack Obama heralds at long last a season of promise and opportunity: the chance to improve the lives of millions of Americans and people throughout the world by ending the Bush administration's horrific war on women and making reproductive health a priority for U.S. law and policy....