Contraceptives

Arianna and Kellyanne Conway discuss Jonathan Haidt's new book, which argues that "righteousness" precedes self-righteousness. Through that lens, the women debate their different views of the Trayvon shooting and "War on Women".

WASHINGTON -- Karen Santorum said Monday that her husband, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, would "do nothing" on the issue of birth c...

The all-male county commission of New Hanover County, NC, has voted down a grant from the state of North Carolina in the amount of $8899 to fund family planning.

Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul are not running for dog catcher. The dogs of the world will little note nor long remember who wins the presidency of the United States, let alone the GOP nomination. I am more interested to know what this election means for... people.

Moderates and women are fleeing the Republican Party. Between rush Limbaugh and the Roman Catholic bishops' war on women's access to contraception the Democratic Party is sitting pretty for 2012.

Leave it to radio personality Rush Limbaugh to turn a serious policy issue into a personal attack. But the moral character of Sandra Fluke doesn't matter. What should worry the rest of us is her apparent belief that we all are obligated to make sure that she can have sex for free.

Political campaigns at their best are a kind of morality play, and now a primary season that was supposed to be about the economy has suddenly erupted into a fury of bigotry and religious zealotry.

TACOMA, Wash. — Washington state cannot force pharmacies to sell Plan B or other emergency contraceptives, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, sayi...

WASHINGTON -- Tammy Duckworth, a Democratic House candidate running in Illinois' 8th District, is out with a new mailer attacking her opponent for say...

Women of America, lay down your petitions and bumper stickers. Step into a pair of comfy sweatpants and declare your intention to deny any sexual activity until Draconian bills regulating your reproductive choices are dropped in favor of laws that create jobs and improve lives.

We are mothers, sisters and daughters. We are multi-taskers, leaders and advocates. We are care-takers, Governors and executives. We are 51% of the population. Yet still, in 2012, women are seeing vicious attacks on basic rights. How did this happen?

With Rick Santorum rising to the top of the GOP primary race, women's advocacy groups are raising questions about the former Pennsylvania senator's pl...

When presidential races deal with civil rights, poverty, national defense, education, foreign relations, energy, terrorism, and social justice -- the GOP wants to talk about contraceptives. The only people who talk about contraceptives this much are teenage boys.

What do you call a state whose legislature in one month advances laws allowing unlimited purchases of handguns, declares the rights of personhood from the moment a sperm and egg unite and forces women seeking abortions to have an invasive, unnecessary medical procedure?

The non-compromise Obama floated does not reduce by one penny the amount of money he would force Catholics to spend on contraception. Worse, this mandate is just one manifestation of how the president's health care law will grind up the freedom of every American.

Huffington and Matalin debate "War on Catholics" vs. "War on Women". The legal rights of non-catholic employees in publicly funded hospitals... or a 2000 year church doctrine. Then: guess who wins shootout between Clint and Karl over Chrysler ad?

Republican rhetoric suggests that this is the equivalent of requiring churches to distribute RU-486 instead of communion wafers; but that's complete nonsense. Actual religious organizations are exempt.

Santorum represents a strain in American politics that believes preventing unintended and unwanted pregnancies is both a moral wrong and a social ill: women who engage in sexual intercourse -- voluntarily or not -- should have children by chance, not by choice.