Only three in ten women believe there is currently a broad-based campaign to limit their access to reproductive health care, a new poll shows. The...
Posted 06.01.2012
By JIM ABRAMS, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Legislation coming up for a House vote would make it a federal crime to carry out an abortion bas...
Miriam Yeung | Posted 05.29.2012
Known as "PRENDA," the latest version of this bill would ban abortions performed on the basis of sex. If itbecomes law, a doctor or nurse who suspects that a patient is seeking a sex-selective abortion would be required to report her to authorities.
Soraya Chemaly | Posted 05.25.2012
Anonymous sources think that the GOP is seriously considering officially adopting the Sponsor a Uterus program as part of their economic stimulus agenda.
Valerie DeFillipo | Posted 05.17.2012
Reproductive rights are human rights, but apparently not in the minds of House Appropriators.
Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 05.15.2012
Would a man's choice to embrace his traditional breadwinning role with gusto be marked as an end to progress, or to opt out of parenthood as a harbinger of the downfall of society as we know it?
Valens Ntamushobora | Posted 05.14.2012
In many rural areas in Rwanda, women have been excluded from the decision-making processes affecting their lives, families and communities, and they are forced to accept prevailing social attitudes.
Carol Hartsell | Posted 05.10.2012
At the risk of seeming insensitive as we approach Mother's Day, I have a bone to pick with everyone out there who has chosen -- or tacitly accepted -- the role of motherhood. Could you please, for the love of God, stop referring to those of us who have chosen to not have kids as "childless"?
Soraya Chemaly | Posted 05.10.2012
Earlier today a senior policy advisor to the Republican Party was thought to have said the following: "You know, we forgot. I mean, we knew that the 19th Amendment passed, but, what can I say, it was an abstraction."
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.07.2012
While Democrats and Republicans have been arguing throughout the campaign season about women's reproductive rights, the issue has now taken center sta...
Sally Steenland | Posted 05.04.2012
Religion and reproductive rights are usually pitted against each other in public debates and the media. But in real life, they are not on opposite sides.
Harry Knox | Posted 05.03.2012
Women's reproductive rights have been so stigmatized and stripped of moral value by certain religious leaders that it can be difficult to speak up. This is a good time to reconsider.
Soraya Chemaly | Posted 05.03.2012
Every 90 seconds, somewhere in the world, a woman dies from a pregnancy-related complication. This isn't just a "third world" problem. The United States currently ranks 50th in the world for maternal health. It is safer to give birth in Bosnia or Kuwait than in California.
Suzanne Ehlers | Posted 05.02.2012
I spent the week at the U.N.'s Commission on Population and Development, immersed in conversations about young people. It made me remember Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten as a frame for the week's lessons.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.02.2012
Karen Teegarden and Desiree Jordan were alarmed by the rapid erosion of women's rights. They created a Facebook page called United Against the War Against Women, with the theory if they built it women would come.
Monique Ruffin | Posted 04.30.2012
The women I have met while learning about feminine power are tired of fighting and working to fit into this misogynistic culture. Women are ready to present themselves not as property, children, or men in skirts, but as feminine, intelligent, powerful, and capable.
El Chanclaso | Posted 04.28.2012
Un gran aplauso to President Obama for announcing that Dolores Huerta, the legendary civil rights and labor leader, will be receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom along with 12 other outstanding individuals.
Carre Otis | Posted 04.27.2012
I am a survivor of sexual violence. I am a survivor of rape. I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.
Jamin Raskin | Posted 04.27.2012
Remarkably, Mitt Romney's key constitutional advisor wants to turn back the clock on Equal Protection jurisprudence by watering down the standards for reviewing sex-discriminatory laws.
Soraya Chemaly | Posted 04.27.2012
Tomorrow, thousands of women and men will participate in marches and rallies for women's rights in 45 states and the District of Columbia. American women need to be recognized as full citizens. Yes, women in this country.
The Huffington Post | Melissa Jeltsen | Posted 04.26.2012
Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna lashed out at a constituent on Tuesday, telling the young woman to "go get a job" in response to a ques...
Josette Jaramillo | Posted 04.26.2012
On April 28, Colorado women will gather in Denver's Civic Center Park for a short march to the State Capitol. Not a long walk, but it should carry a significant message to the politicians who work inside and beyond: We will not be ignored.
Anu Kumar | Posted 04.25.2012
Having been successful in creating onerous barriers to abortion -- technically still a legal procedure in the United States -- at the state level, anti-abortion activists continue their assault.
Mary Rose Betten | Posted 05.03.2012
This is one of ten shortlisted entries for our Things To Do Before You Die contest. We will try to make the winning idea happen. The entries on the ...
Robert Walker | Posted 04.19.2012
There's a basic misconception that clouds the thinking of many social and religious conservatives. Believing that contraceptive use is a moral wrong, they desperately want to make it into a social ill. To do that, they confuse correlation with causation.
HuffingtonPost.com | Greg Rosalsky | Posted 05.31.2012