Reproductive Freedom

Ann Or Hilary: Either Way, Motherhood Is a Dismal Financial Decision for American Women

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Hilary Rosen, Ann Romney, Working Mothers, Pay Equity, Reproductive Freedom, The Price of Motherhood, Blunt Amendment, Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood, Working Women, Gender Gap, Class Warfare, Reproductive Justice, Gender Pay Inequality, Women in the Workforce, Gender Inequality, Gender Pay Gap, Fair Pay Act, Stay at Home Mom, Business News
Soraya Chemaly

What I am not hearing anyone say loudly and clearly in this Rosen/Romney snafu is that women's ability -- not desire or choice -- to take part in the economy is based on her freedom to make reproductive decisions.

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Why I Couldn't Be Catholic And A Woman

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Sexism, Misogyny, Abortion, Women's Health, Reproductive Freedom, Roman Catholic Church, Civil Rights, The Pope, Catholic Church, Gender and Religion, Catholic Women, Catholic Leadership, Contraception, Politics News
Soraya Chemaly

Either you are willing to support and participate in a culture in which men, refusing to accept women as equals, use a perverted claim of divine right to control women and their bodies, or you don't.

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Laura Bassett

Obama Presents Dramatically Different Stance On Abortion From Republican Rivals'

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Gingrich, Abortion, Reproductive Freedom, Video, Roe v. Wade, Abortion Rights, Personhood USA, Reversing Roe vs Wade, Anti-Abortion, Anti-Abortion Rights, Obama Roe v. Wade, Right to Choose, Roe vs Wade, Pro-Abortion Rights, Politics News

Drawing a stark contrast between himself and the Republican presidential candidates on the issue of women's reproductive rights, President Barack Obam...

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Moral Budgets: Wedging Black Women's Bodies Part 1

Malkia A. Cyril | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Obama Budget 2012, Reproductive Freedom, Women's Rights, Organizing, Movement-Building, Pro-Choice, Children, Communications Strategy, Politics News
Malkia A. Cyril

The 2012 budget is a a painful story. Where it cuts and what it spends tells the story of how deep misogyny runs in the United States. Despite high ...

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Weekly Pulse: The Pill at 50 and Oklahoma's Extreme Ultrasound Law

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food and Drug Administration, Merrick Garland, The American Prospect, Women's Media Center, RH Reality Check, Reproductive Rights, Elena Kagan, The Progressive, Pro-Life, Diane Wood, Justice John Paul Stevens, Birth Control Pill, Reproductive Freedom, Tropical Diseases, Birth Control, The Pill, Fda, Reproductive Health, Wellpoint, Anti-Choice, Talking Points Memo, Pro-Choice, Women's Liberation, Center for Reproductive Rights, Politics News
The Media Consortium

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Fifty years ago, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first birth control pill. Needless to...

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Curbing Carbon's Just the Tip of Our Great Green Leap

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reproductive Freedom, Women's Rights, Green Power, Ecology, Carbon Emissions, Copenhagen 2009, Corporations, Reproductive Rights, Solartopia, Environment, Corporate Control, Peace, Social Democracy, Nuclear Power, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

The epic fight over carbon emissions is barely the tip of how we survive. Mother Earth demands that fossil/nukes be transcended. This green-powered leap defines our technological, economic and ecological survival.

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A Nod to Sarah Palin from Someone Who Will Never Vote for Her

Harold Pollack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sarah Palin Vice President, Disability, Down Syndrome, Abortion, Reproductive Freedom, Sarah Palin Vp, Mccain Palin Ticket, Reproductive Choice, Mccain Palin 08, Sarah Palin, Palin Pro-Life, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News
Harold Pollack

Governor Palin's party opposes women's access to family planning services that prevent unwanted pregnancies and that give poor women the same reproductive choices she herself enjoys.

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