Once again, at the final hour, women's rights and access have been traded away in the new Senate health care bill. Rights and access that we may not get back anytime soon, if ever.
Wendy Button | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics
Who will be our Lieberman? Who will be our Nelson? There has to be someone who will stand for us because when one woman is demeaned in the name of the greater good, that's not progress, that's a sign of a country in deep crisis.
politico.com | Posted 12.20.2009 | Politics
An aide to Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) coordinated opposition to the Senate health bill's abortion compromise this morning with the Republican Senate l...
New York Times | Posted 12.20.2009 | Politics
Thirty million people without health insurance stand to gain coverage under a deal announced on Saturday by Senate Democrats. To get the 60 votes nee...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 12.18.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A year in the making, sweeping health care legislation backed by President Barack Obama hung in the balance Thursday as conservativ...
Yalidy Matos | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics
The United States is one of seven countries that have yet to ratify The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
AP | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics
BERKELEY, Calif. — The Berkeley City Council has a pointed message for Democratic members of the U.S. House who voted to keep federal funds from...
AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 12.09.2009 | World
DUBLIN — Three women filed a lawsuit in a European court against Ireland's abortion ban Wednesday, claiming the government violates the human ri...
Leslie Goldman | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics
More than one in every three women will have had an abortion by the age 45. If the Stupak amendment becomes law, it one day may not even be our choice to pay for an abortion with our own insurance.
Megan Carpentier | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics
Whereas the pro-choice movement was caught flat-footed by the surge of Democrats who voted for the Stupak amendment, they'll likely re-arm to fight anti-abortion language in any final health care reform bill.
Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics
The Stupak-Pitts amendment that replaced my amendment goes well beyond the status quo. It would result in a major step backwards for women's control over their reproductive lives.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics
Senate negotiators emerged from a full day of meetings Tuesday saying they had made genuine progress toward a deal on health care reform. They declin...
AP | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate has rejected an effort to stiffen abortion restrictions in the health care bill. The vote was 54 to 45....
Amy Siskind | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics
To all of you who assume that the Democrats are the savior of women's rights or even of the right to choice, think again.
Rev. Tom Davis | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics
Anti-abortion groups are working to torpedo all health reform if they cannot impose their religious strictures on those who follow other religious teachings. Do the moral views of other religions not matter?
Ellen Malcolm | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics
This historic health care plan designed to improve Americans' lives and make them healthier and safer could, for women facing an unintended or dangerous pregnancy, deny them access to the care they need.
Cecile Richards | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
Representative Stupak was hoping to ban abortion with his backward amendment. Instead, he's rejuvenated the pro-women movement.
Rebecca Sive | Posted 12.02.2009 | Chicago
Today I feel like I'm still 18, in the fall of 1968, gathering nickels, dimes and dollars for a friend to take the bus to Rapid City, South Dakota to get an (illegal) abortion.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
New data confirms that abortions tend to happen more often in big, blue states, but also that abortion is quite common in red states where anti-choice is strongest.
Bennet Kelley | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics
Providence Bishop Tobin's barring Patrick Kennedy from receiving communion is an assault on the separation of church and state now enshrined in the First Amendment and the Kennedy legacy itself.
Aspen Baker | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
We must recognize that we are a nation deep in conflict, and instead of trying to win with politics, we must work towards building peace. We need to change the conversation about abortion.
Chicago Public Radio | Posted 11.20.2009 | Chicago
An lllinois law requiring doctors to tell the parents of teen-aged patients' before performing an abortion won't come into effect this year....
Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
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.
Jim Jaffe | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Congress is moving at a pace that can fairly be characterized as astonishingly fast to slash the number of Americans who lack health insurance by more than half.
Shan Wells | Posted 11.19.2009 | Denver
I wonder if electing a pack of blue dogs in order to gain a "majority" was worth the now very real risk that the party will chew itself to pieces via stubborn ideological bickering.
Cecile Richards | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics