We must not allow abortion opponents to use our health care reform process to drastically restrict a woman's access to a legal medical procedure, and that's exactly what the Stupak amendment does.
It's the world's poor who will feel the impact of this change the hardest. And who exactly are the poor? Women, who make up approximately 65% of the world's poorest populations.
Providing birth control information and giving out pills is still dangerous in some areas in Afghanistan. Many fear that birth control is an American plot to weaken the country.
Results of a recent survey by VibrantNation.com reveals that Boomer women's coping strategies and belief systems are reaching new levels of effectiveness in the face of heightened challenge and change.
The US must now respond. It must demand the release of brave campaigners for their rights. Moreover, the US must address the root cause of Morocco's abuses -- its occupation of someone else's country, the Western Sahara.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a comprehensive health care plan for the United States -- a plan that will cover 96% of Americans. That is a victory for women.
The message is: Women, you, and your fight for equality, are responsible for your own unhappiness. It's a Half-Lash: The backlash from women becoming half of the paid labor force.
The European Summit for Global Transformation started when a group of friends asked, "What if we got together everyone we knew who's up to big things on the planet?" The results have exceeded everyone's expectations.
As the administration ponders the very real possibility of becoming the newest addition to the "graveyard of empires", there is one aspect of Afghan society everyone seems to have forgotten: the women.
Despite all evidence to the contrary, the congresswomen want us to believe that Republicans are sticking up for women. But the fact is their party has consistently opposed providing families with better health care.
My lady sensibility is limited to menstruation (hilarious), babies (adorable), and unicorns mating (adorably hilarious).
For years, Republicans have attacked women's health care policy every chance they have gotten. Of course, you start to expect this kind of behavior from a party whose caucus is 90% male.
The health care reform bill passed by the House last week is a major blow to pro-life causes everywhere.
Women on Waves employs often radical methods to increase global awareness and access to safe abortion, with a focus on medical abortion using the drug misoprostol.
Our message is clear: we will not support any final bill that restricts women's access to reproductive health services beyond current law.
The members of Congress who voted in support of the Stupak amendment sent a message to America's women: after more than 200 years we are still not full citizens of the United States.
The House passed an "historic" health care bill Saturday night - there was much celebration on the Democratic side and the proverbial wailing and gnas...
Artist Rachel Havnonian challenges viewers to think critically about the price we pay for beauty--both literally and figuratively.
Women's rights (which are, in fact, human rights) will never rise from a corrupt, fundamentalist government. We need to be supporting the voices of women to nurture change in Afghanistan.
The days of women's organizations being an appendage of the DNC must end immediately. Women have been taken for granted and speaking to one political party has led to defeat after defeat for causes important to women.
As Congress struggled to pass health care reform to improve the lives of America's families, anti-choice forces took advantage of the situation to mount yet another assault on abortion.
