Contraception

The Family Research Council is distracting the debate about serious issues in this country to focus on the one issue they need to have front and center in order to turn out their base supporters: abortion.

Instead of picking a fight with the left, Wallis should be asking why it is the far-right gets away with opposing common sense education and prevention ideas.

William Saletan, the Slate columnist whose made a career of claiming to be pro-choice while justifying attacks on reproductive rights, has had yet another epiphany.

If Chris Matthews and the mainstream media want to add something productive to the reproductive rights debate, they should move off the 70's polarization created by the far-right.

Little attention has been paid to the impact that women's liberation has had on men -- Gen X dads spend significantly more time with their children than baby-boomer fathers.

McCain and the "pro-lifers" may have sanctimony on their side, but that has proven ineffective at preventing abortion. Obama has the opportunity to go on the offensive and change the debate.

Buoyed by their success in rolling back abortion rights, anti-choice groups seek nothing less than a complete American lifestyle makeover: sex can't ever exclude the possibility of procreation.

As the Bush presidency nears its end, the Christian Right is bellying up to the trough for a final feeding. They are hoping to get one more shot at their arch nemesis: the Planned Family.

In the face of blatant discrimination against women, to which Pope Benedict has mightily contributed, what exactly is the basis for the Church hierarchy's moral authority?

Barbara Seaman, who died today, rallied to educate people about the politics of the health care industry -- in connection with the Pill and so much more.

Iraq is not the only unpopular war Bush started that McCain hopes to continue. The war on Americans' sex lives is another and McCain has already proven himself a good, loyal general.

Noticeably absent from the RoeIQtest.com survey are questions about women's health, quality of life, and privacy -- all things that Roe vs. Wade ensured.

When you look at the rest of the world where teenage childbearing has become a problem of another time, it is maddening to see policymakers in the U.S. so perplexed.

Roe at 35 is in bad shape. But there are plenty of forward-looking, positive steps to be taken.

Those set on overturning Roe have their eyes on a larger prize: banning contraception. And they've got the support of at least one leading presidential contender.

I was unequivocally pro-choice, but I hated that woman in the Planned Parenthood because she seemed to have such an uncomplicated relationship with abortion. I was jealous.

Sadly, if most Americans credit the pro-choice birth control movement for anything, it's for the dubious honor of protecting vice.

The most pro-life thing a president can do is support the right to use contraception and make it widely available.

On Monday, President Bush appointed Susan Orr to oversee federal family planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Orr, ...