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Reproductive Rights

An Open Letter To Secretary Clinton About The Gross Neglect Of Women's Reproductive Rights In India

Nancy Northup | Posted 11.25.2009 | World

Read More: Hillary Clinton, India, Secretary of State, Maternal Health, State Department, Reproductive Rights, Maternal Mortality, Women's Rights, Center for Reproductive Rights, World News
Nancy Northup

Maternal mortality in India is public health crisis. The Indian government must be held accountable for its inaction in the face of this gross neglect of women's reproductive rights.

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Proposed Restrictions on Reproductive Rights Threaten Economic Growth

Nazca Fontes | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Economy, Infertility, Reproductive Tourism, Ivf, Reproductive Rights, Assisted Reproductive Technology, Assisted-Reproduction, Politics News
Nazca Fontes

Legislative efforts to restrict donor compensation and other restrictions on reproductive rights could have an impact on a billion-dollar contributor to the economy -- the infertility industry.

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Lessons on Birth Control from Afghanistan

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Abortion, Women in Politics, Women's Rights, Birth Control, Afghanistan, Reproductive Rights, World News
Madeleine M. Kunin

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.

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The Health Care-Abortion Issue: An Open Letter To The Catholic Bishops

Valerie Tarico | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Stupak, Reproductive Rights, Birth, Pro Choice, Catholicism, Children, Pregnancy, Catholic Bishops, Pro-Life, Babies, Catholics, Religion, Morality, Health Care, Pro-Choice, Spirituality, Politics News
Valerie Tarico

Dear Bishops: In our struggle to get health care for all, you saw an opportunity to make sure that American women can't afford abortions, a way to be the deciders for all of us.

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Hope for Uganda's Women

Karl Hofmann | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

Read More: Reproductive Health, Global Health, Family Planning, Reproductive Rights, International-Family-Planning, Triumph, World News
Karl Hofmann

Rakai is known as the first place in Uganda where HIB was found. It is also, unfortunately, at the forefront of another battle in the war against poverty and disease.

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To Induce Or Not To Induce - Is That The Question?

Amie Newman | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: RH Reality Check, Pregnancy, Women, Midwifery, Natural Childbirth, Reproductive Rights, Childbirth, Living News
Amie Newman

Are there "good" reasons for inducing labor through medical intervention? It's a loaded question for which different providers may give you different answers.

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Conservative Catholic College Rejects Birth Control

Reproductive Justice | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Abortion, Walmart, Conscience Clause, Belmont Abbey College, Gender Discrimination, Reproductive Rights, Religious Freedom, Reproductive Health, Contraception, Birth Control, Anti-Choice, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Health Care, Religion, Living News
Reproductive Justice

Belmont Abbey College argued in court that it was a secular institution in order to receive state funds, but then removed birth control from its employee health care plan. Their reason? The Catholic Church.

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Am I Angrier at Bart Stupak or Barack Obama?

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Bart Stupak, Contraception, Reproductive Rights, Abortion Rights, Barack Obama, President Obama, Politics News
Joanne Bamberger

I was more worried about Justices Scalia and Thomas, and now it turns out I should have been focusing on some Congressman from Michigan. The short, non-wonky version of where we are? We're screwed.

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The New Scarlet Letter -- A is for Abortion

Linda Bergthold | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, House Health Reform Bill, HR 3962, Reproductive Rights, Stupak Amendment, Hyde Amendment, Pregnancy, Contraception, Health Reform, Politics News
Linda Bergthold

The Stupak-Pitts amendment takes me back to the days when abortion was not legal and the shame of an abortion was very much like wearing a big red letter A on your forehead.

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Reproductive Health Care Providers Deserve Our Protection

Sam Hoyt | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Abortion, George Tiller, Human Rights, Abortion Clinics, Reproductive Rights, Abortion Rights, New York News
Sam Hoyt

While Dr. Tiller's work and his unflappable defense of a woman's right to choose abortion was extremely high profile, many physicians and abortion center staff face serious harassment.

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A Lesson for Barack Obama From the Harold Washington Playbook

Rebecca Sive | Posted 11.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Declaration of Independence, Auto Bailout, Wall Street, Reproductive Rights, Election Night 2009, Harold Washington, Community Organizing, China, Barack Obama, New Jersey Governor's Race, Virginia Governor's Race, South Side of Chicago, Health Care Reform, Chicago News
Rebecca Sive

Chicago Mayor Harold Washington never did move away from his people; he stuck with them; he delivered for them. The result: They stuck with him.

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New York Voters Send Right Wing Packing in 23rd Congressional District

M. Tracey Brooks | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Family Planning, Dede Scozzafava, Reproductive Rights, Bill Owens, Right Wing, Ny-23, Doug Hoffman, Planned Parenthood, New York News
M. Tracey Brooks

The GOP failed to back its own candidate and allowed outside influences such as the Conservative Party and the Club for Growth to hijack the election. This is not good for the GOP or for women.

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Former Planned Parenthood Director's Holes In Story Revealed In Recent Radio Interview

Amie Newman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, RH Reality Check, Birth Control, 40 Days for Life, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive Rights, Politics News
Amie Newman

How did Ms. Johnson become the director of a Planned Parenthood center that provides abortions up to 14 weeks without having seen an ultrasound image?

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Listen Up Obama: The HIV/AIDS Virus Has Moved South

Reproductive Justice | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Reproductive Health, Abstinence Only, Reproductive Rights, Abstinence Only Debate, AIDs Epidemic, Politics News
Reproductive Justice

South Carolina, like a number of states in the Southeastern region, is being devastated by a silent enemy that hasn't attracted a lot of media attention lately: HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

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I Am Not a Pre-Existing Condition

Amie Newman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: C-Sections, Women's Rights, Senate, Reproductive Rights, RH Reality Check, Health Care Reform, Pregnancy, Domestic Violence, Politics of Birth, Childbirth, Inside DC, Politics News
Amie Newman

Is the fact that women experience gender discrimination in health care even debatable? Many insurance companies even regard a C-section as a pre-existing condition. This must stop.

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Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining Our Future

Joyce McFadden | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Reproductive Health, Obama, Backlash, Living News, Feminism, Reproductive Rights, Sexism, Media News
Joyce McFadden

While reading Barbara Berg's Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining our Future, I felt energized and eager to be a part of this third wave of feminism.

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In Labor, In Chains

Reproductive Justice | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights, Shackling-Pregnant-Inmates, Arkansas Department of Corrections, In Labor in Chains, Shackling, Politics News
Reproductive Justice

Most mothers behind bars are restrained during labor, delivery and post-delivery as a matter of routine practice in our nation's jails and prisons.

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Addressing Global Warming: Give Women Reproductive Choice

Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Health Care Reform, Bearing Witness 2.0, Climate Change, Copenhagen 2009, Health Care, Reproductive Rights, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases, Sir David Attenborough, Green News
Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte

Increasing population pressure in many nations is destroying, directly or indirectly, vitally important carbon storage systems on our planet.

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Birth Control Could Help Developing World Combat Climate Change

AP | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Population, Population Growth, Reproduction, Reproductive Rights, World's Population, Third World, Climate Change, Birth Control Pill, Sexual Rights, High Population, Birth Control, Contraceptives, Developing World, Condoms, Global Warming, World News

LONDON — Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, experts said Frid...

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What's So Scary About Home Birth?

Amie Newman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, Out-of-Hospital-Birth, Natural Childbirth, Reproductive Rights, RH Reality Check, Women's Health, Reproductive Health, Motherhood, Home Birth, Midwifery, Childbirth, Cpms, Cnms, Living News
Amie Newman

The Today Show presents homebirth as an option to be feared, but that's only because the unknown is often a scary venture. If you listen to women's experiences, It doesn't have to be that way.

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Baucus May Have Solved the Abortion-Health Care Riddle

Steven Waldman | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Abortion, Max Baucus, Reproductive Rights, Health Care Abortion, Politics News
Steven Waldman

Bishops say they would gladly support health care reform if only they could be assured it doesn't cover abortion. We may soon see if that's true.

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A Different Kind of Gag: Europe's Reproductive Health Fatigue

Gauri van Gulik | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: Europe Attitude to Women's Rights, Reproductive Health, Women's Rights, EU Women's Rights, Human Rights Watch, Reproductive Rights, World News
Gauri van Gulik

The family planning debate affects people far from the halls of Brussels -- people like Lisa, who was raped by a family member then told to by a local "doctor" to swallow acid and rub it all over her genital area.

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Abortion and Health Care Reform: A Common Ground Solution?

Chris Korzen | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Health Care Reform, Capps Amendment, Abortion Health Care Reform, Reproductive Rights, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News
Chris Korzen

Both sides of the abortion debate supported health care reform that preserved current policies for federal support. But how do we define abortion neutrality where federal precedent doesn't exist?

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World Breastfeeding Week: Breastfeeding Is a Feminist Issue

Amie Newman | Posted 09.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, RH Reality Check, Feminism, Breastfeeding, Reproductive Rights, Women's Rights, Newborns, Parenting, Living News
Amie Newman

Breastfeeding is not simply a "choice" women make. It is a decision women make based on a tremendous variety of social and medical factors.

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Women Need a Plan B

Kelli Conlin | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Emergency Contraception, Reproductive Health, Plan B, Birth Control, Naral, Reproductive Rights, Health, Politics News
Kelli Conlin

Heightened awareness is critical to increasing use of Plan B: a safe, effective back up method of birth control. Nearly 40 percent of women 18-30 remain unaware of this valuable medication.

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