Womens Health Care

Over My Dead Body (Literally)

Nancy Cronk | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Abortion, Hydatitiform Mole, War on Women, Pre-Cancer, Gestational Trophoblastic Disease, Pregnancy, D&c, Pro Choice, Women's, Women's Health Care, Reproductive Rights, Contraception, Denver News
Nancy Cronk

We must find ways to have a civil dialogue that balances the needs and rights of women. When all sides can come together in reason, committed to caring for every person on this planet, maybe we'll make some headway on this issue.

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How A 15-Year-Old Is Changing The Face Of Maternal Mortality In Mexico

Arlene Samen | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Global Motherhood, Women's Health Care, Infant Mortality Rate, Maternal Mortality Rate, Women's Health, Maternal Health, Infant Mortality, Maternal Mortality, One Heart World-Wide, Impact News
Arlene Samen

Victoria Castro may only be 15 years-old, but this has not stopped her from already having saved several lives.

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Where the Boys Aren't

Glenn W. Smith | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Stand Up Men, Contraception, Women's Health Care, Birth Control, Rick Perry, Planned Parenthood, Rush Limbaugh, Video, Politics News
Glenn W. Smith

Men are involved in 100 percent of all pregnancies. But our voices are mostly missing from the debate. It's time we spoke out, boyos. The pill is our contraception, too.

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Who's Getting Paid to Have Sex? The Politicization of Female Sexuality

Nicole Skibola | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Birth Control, Religious Exemption, Obama Contraception, Catholic Church, Reproductive Rights, Women's Rights, Women's Health Care, Women's Health, Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh Fluke, Politics News
Nicole Skibola

We need to think about gender parity as not equal expenditure by an employer on male and female employees, but equal treatment as to the physiological needs of each sex.

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Let's Be Blunt, Roy

Stephanie Schriock | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Women, Emily's List, Women's Health Care, Why 2012, Blunt Amendment, Reproductive Rights, Women's Rights, Birth Control, Women's Health, Contraception, Planned Parenthood, Politics News
Stephanie Schriock

Voters are soundly rejecting this right wing agenda, from the freedom-limiting Blunt Amendment, to the vile attacks of Rush Limbaugh. Not just Democratic voters, but Independent voters, and Republicans too: access to birth control has the potential to impact races across the country.

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The Politics of Women's Health Care

Renee Parsons | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Romney, Blunt Amendment, Contraception, Women's Health Care, Roe v Wade, Santorum, Reproductive Rights, Politics News
Renee Parsons

While a direct attack on the Fourteenth Amendment is fraught with unintended consequences, anti-choice activists have shrewdly chosen to broaden their efforts against health needs for women in open disdain.

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Resolution Urges 'Personhood' Rights For Sperm

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Women's Health Care, Video, War on Women, Sperm Personhood, Women's Health, Personhood, Loretta Walsh, Wilmington City Council, Personhood Bills, Wilmington, Egg Personhood, Politics News

The Wilmington City Council has a message for men -- sperm are people, too. The council for Delaware's largest city passed a resolution by an 8-4 v...

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Pregnant and Displaced: Double the Danger

Sarah Costa | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Women, Motherhood, Pregnancy, Maternal Health, Childbirth, Global Motherhood, Maternal Death Rate, Women's Health Care, Reproductive-Health-Care, Maternal Health Providers, Maternal Health Care, Impact News
Sarah Costa

It's time we all step up our efforts to ensure that women everywhere can decide freely if and when they want to have children, that all mothers can deliver their babies safely and services are available for women who have suffered violence.

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Emma Gray

Looking Back At 40 Years Of 'Our Bodies, Ourselves'

HuffingtonPost.com | Emma Gray | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Our Bodies Ourselves 2011, Women's Health Care, Women News, The Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Health Care, Women's Health, Personal Health, Our Bodies Ourselves, Women News

“Our main purpose was getting information about health out to ... as many women as possible.” This is how Paula Doress-Worters describes the goals...

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Affordable Care Act Helps Women

Sen. Harry Reid | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Women's Health, Harry Reid Health Care, Women's Health Care, Affordable Care Act Women, Health Care, Affordable Care Act, Women News
Sen. Harry Reid

When I was a kid, I thought I was a lot tougher than I was. My mother taught me that if you acted like you could handle yourself, then you could. But sometimes that meant enduring unnecessary pain.

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A Victory for Women's Health

Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Birth Control, Women's Health, Women's Rights, Women's Health Care, Clinical Preventative Service for Women, Institute of Medicine, Affordable Care Act Women, Women News
Rep. Lois Capps

Today, the Institute of Medicine released an important report, Clinical Preventive Services for Women: Closing the Gaps, that recognizes the importance of access to preventive health services for women.

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Laura Gottesdiener

'Psychological Slavery'? A Look Inside California Women's Prisons

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Gottesdiener | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, California Female Inmates, Women's Rights, Sterilization, Women's Health Care, California Prisons, California Women's Prisons, Prisons, Women's Prisons, Los Angeles News

Over the course of 12 years, former inmate Beverly Henry watched hundreds of untreated women die in the Central California Women’s Facility, a spraw...

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A-List Moms Team with Starbucks to Ensure "Every Mother Counts"

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 06.12.2011

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Kristi York Wooten

Christy Turlington hopes the "Every Mother Counts" CD -- and her advocacy initiative of the same name -- will bring attention to maternal health issues in the weeks leading up to Mother's Day.

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Criminal Miscarriage, or Miscarriage of Justice?

Rev. Debra Haffner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pregnancy, Religion, Abortion Rights, Sexuality and Religion, Science and Religion, Women's Health Care, Miscarriage, Bob Marshall, Religious Institute, Religion and Politics, Politics News
Rev. Debra Haffner

Seventeen years ago this spring, I miscarried a very wanted pregnancy at 16 weeks. Under new legislation passed by Utah's legislature, I might have been charged with criminal homicide.

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Abortion Language in the Health Care Bill: Another Women's Smackdown and What to Do

Amy Siskind | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion Health Care Reform, Women's Health Care, Abortion Health Care, Women's Rights Abortion, Abortion Rights, Women's Health Issues, Women in Politics, Women Health Care Reform, Women Health Insurance Reform, Politics News
Amy Siskind

Is it me, or is Obama's health care bill increasingly like the movie Groundhog Day? Another day, another women's health smackdown. Women's health is under assault.

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