A group representing America's Catholic hospitals announced last week that it would support the Senate's health care reform legislation. This represents a break with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which opposes the Senate bill, and, perhaps even "providing political cover" for pro-life Democrats to support the bill.

David Kirkpatrick...

By Lon Newman, President of Wisconsin Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association

The belief that contraception is intrinsically evil, though sincere, does not make it true. The belief that it is "written in everyone's heart as 'natural law'" is no more persuasive. If true, it seems there would...

Documentary-short by Hunter Stuart

Article by Eric Sheptock, Advocate for the Homeless, Washington DC

Washington, DC has joined several other states in its quest for same-sex marriage. The DC Council voted...

South Carolina is known by most Americans for its long, sunny days, gorgeous Atlantic Ocean beaches and outstanding golf courses. Unfortunately, most public health professionals know South Carolina for its staggering rates of HIV and AIDS. This is a public health issue which needs to be understood better by the...

Despite the fact that Belmont Abbey College argued in court that it was a secular institution in order to receive state funds, it recently removed birth control from its employee health care plan. Their reason? The Catholic Church is opposed to contraception. In that case, why does Belmont Abbey College...

A correction was made to this article at 1:23 pm on Monday, November 9th. An earlier version contained an error in the name of Congressman Brad Ellsworth, (D-IN).

Tonight, with the aid of some 60 Democrats, women's rights were effectively negated by the US Congress...

Mediabistro quotes a particularly shocking moment of Kate Harding's account of Law & Order's disturbing abortion "debate." During the trial of the killer of a late-term abortion doctor, a nurse testifies that the slain doctor

once (or was it only once?) botched a late-term abortion, causing the...

If you have had your head above water, you likely have noticed that South Carolina has been in the news a lot lately. First there was our governor's Brazilian waxing-poetic, followed by a state partisan's hurling of insults at Mrs. Obama, and then there was of course The Outburst, by...

It's Saturday morning, and both sides of the street are covered with people. On one, the Archbishop with a group of approximately sixty praying protesters, with rosaries and strollers in hand. On the other side of the street, EMW Women's Surgical Center. Escorts decked in their orange vests stand side...

When she became a mother, her body was shackled. She gave birth to her son with her ankles shackled to the hospital bed. Arnita remained shackled as she held her son for the first time and while she nursed him. Like Arnita, most mothers behind bars are restrained during labor,...

Last week, in Nelson v. Norris, a federal Court of Appeals held for the first time that the U.S. Constitution protects pregnant women in prison from the unnecessary and unsafe practice of shackling during labor and childbirth. Notably, although the American Civil Liberties Union argued the case more than a...

By Julia Kaye, National Women's Law Center

Tuesday night, in a "hat-tip" to common-sense and efficacy, the Senate Finance Committee approved an amendment introduced by Chairman Baucus to provide funding for evidence-based comprehensive sex education. The Chairman introduced his amendment as an alternative to an amendment introduced by Senator...

By Hunter Stuart, associate producer, reporter, and videographer for RHrealitycheck.org

As the 40 Days For Life anti-abortion campaign kicks off its fall tour - it's largest yet, spread across 200 cities in 45 states - I find myself thinking harder about the arguments of the anti-choice movement. I...

By Lon Newman, President of the Wisconsin Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association and 2005 David R. Obey Person of Principle

In the politics of abstinence-only education, we have a lot to learn. With the full Senate poised to vote this month on the $163 billion Labor, Health and...

After thirteen years and more than a billion dollars, the budget axe is raised over abstinence-until-marriage programs. The President and the Speaker of the House have passed judgment. Appropriations Chair, David Obey (D-WI), may deliver the last reading of the final sentence. I won't be among those asking him...

This special report on Crisis Pregnancy Centers is a joint project of RH Reality Check, the Feminist Majority Foundation and Stuart Productions. These three organizations will be joined by Advocates for Youth and the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) for an audio press conference on...

My fight began when my 13-year-old daughter came home from her public school about a month ago with a pamphlet she wanted me to sign for extra credit points in her health class. Being the person I am, I read the pamphlet and then I read the worksheets she had...

By Myra Duran, a junior at UCLA and she is on the Executive Board of FMF affiliate Bruin Feminists for Equality.

If you are a student, you probably see so-called crisis pregnancy center ads all the time on campus. They read something like, "SCARED? PREGNANT? NEED HELP? Call 1-800-HELP...

By Kate Royals, Senior, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS.

At the Mississippi Department of Human Services' summit entitled "Abstinence Works: Let's Talk About It," we didn't talk about abstinence, but we sure did chant, cheer, dance, pray and sing about it. At least sort of. Here's a few (of the...

By the Wench Self-Care Health Collective

Louisville, KY

Post by Meg Stern

Mother's Day at an Abortion Clinic from Stuart Productions on Vimeo.

It's 7:20am when the client...