Roe v Wade

Is There Really A War on Women or Are Men Just Being Stupid?

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Congress, Violence Against Women, War on Women, Obamacare, Feminism, Roe v. Wade, Equal Pay Act, Politics News

When House Republicans stall on reauthorizing and expanding the Violence Against Women Act, they are blinding themselves to the everyday experiences of women's lives.

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Marriage Equality: Our Rights Are Not Up for Debate!

Warren J. Blumenfeld | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Vice President Biden, Loving v. Virginia, President Obama, Alexis De Tocqueville, Brown v. Board of Education, Federalism, Roe v. Wade, Ballot Initiatives, Same-Sex Marriage, Gay Marriage, Gay Voices News

While many of our political leaders debate issues of marriage equality, I do not believe that the rights of minoritized people should be up for debate and should be settled on in the voting booth.

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WATCH: New Obama Campaign Ad Hits Mitt On Women's Issues

The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: White House, Roe v Wade, Video, Election 2012 Blog, 2012 Election, Mitt Romney 2012, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Planned Parenthood, Barack Obama 2012, Barack Obama, Politics News

After Mitt Romney swept five East Coast primaries last Tuesday, the White House acknowledged that he is President Barack Obama's clear 2012 challenger...

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March Because "Equal Enough" for Women Is Unacceptable

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Economic Justice, Equality, Women's Rights, Human Rights, Complementarianism, Lilly Ledbetter, Roe v. Wade, Abortion Rights, Reproductive Rights, Affordable Health Care, Economic Injustice, War on Women, Fair Pay, Reproductive Injustice, Unitewomen, Gender Inequality, Politics News

Tomorrow, thousands of women and men will participate in marches and rallies for women's rights in 45 states and the District of Columbia. American women need to be recognized as full citizens. Yes, women in this country.

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Free God Now! Old Time Religion Vs The Mainstream

Clay Farris Naff | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Religion, Islam, Atheism, Judaism, Roe v. Wade, 9/11, Christianity, Quran, Religious Books, Religion and Politics, Obama, Religion and Science, Vatican, Election, Religion News

A fresh wind is blowing through church steeples and minarets. It's got the archbishops, pastors, rabbis and imams of Old Time Religion in a reactionary rage. And no wonder.

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The Lessons of The Scarlet Letter Today

Linda Greider | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Birth Control Mandate, Birth Control, Health Care Law, Contraception Mandate, Roe v. Wade, Women's Health, Contraception, Health Care, Pro-Choice, Politics News

Long life and lots of experience have taught me that nobody ever changes their mind about abortion. But to put a face, or at least a name, on the subject, here's a story: Fifty-three years ago when I was 16, I had an abortion.

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Today's Other 'Jim Crow'

Van Gosse | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Abortion Rights, The New Jim Crow, Conservatives, Segregation, Roe v. Wade, Civil Rights, Politics News

In some ways, current politics mimic the reaction against democracy at the twentieth century's turn, when Jim Crow segregation entrenched itself in the southern states.

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Women's Rights, Fetuses' Rights, and States' Rights

Laurence J. Kotlikoff | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Abortion, Anti-Abortion, States' Rights, Ultrasound, Roe v. Wade, Abortion Rights, Roe vs. Wade, Politics News

Women have rights, fetuses have rights, and states have rights. But in the case at hand, women have the right to make their extremely difficult decision in private.

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Tennessee Abortion Bill Is Dangerous

Neon Tommy | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Ultrasound Procedure, Ultrasound Controversy, Abortion Bill Tennessee, Women's Rights, Abortion Bill, Roe v Wade, Abortion Rights, Abortion Doctors, Pro-Choice Bill, Abortion Legislation, Life Defense Act, Pro-Life Act, Planned Parenthood, Abortion Debate, College News

The Tennessee anti-abortion bill is yet another assault on women's rights, because yes, they are rights ever since the Supreme Court decided so in Roe v. Wade. This country has had this argument already. Why does it need to have it again?

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Help, Help! There's an Elephant in My Uterus. Permission Slips from Men for Abortion?

Jeanne Devon (AKMuckraker) | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Alaska Ultrasound, Ultrasound Bill, Health Care, Forced Ultrasound, Alaska Republicans, Roe v. Wade, Alaska Abortion, Rep. Alan Dick, Abortion, War on Women, Reproductive Rights, Women's Health, Alaska, Pro-Choice, Politics News

Alaska has become the latest state to fall victim to the Republican War on Women. One legislator even wants women to get a permission slip signed by the man who impregnated her before she can have an abortion.

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Make Casey Answer for Blunt Amendment

Kate Michelman | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Women's Contraception, Contraception, Blunt Amendment Fails, Blunt Amendment, Bob Casey, Roe v. Wade, Politics News

Women should not need a permission slip from the government or employers to address their reproductive health needs, and it is becoming increasingly clear that the women of Pennsylvania cannot trust Casey to protect their health and defend their rights.

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Sandra Fluke and the Deborah Generation

Malika Saada Saar | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Roe v. Wade, Women's Rights, Sandra Fluke, Obama Birth Control, Birth Control Politics, Millenials Birth Control, Contraception Women Politics, Women News

This Women's History Month marks the long-awaited emergence of a new post-Roe generation of women who are reframing the women's rights movement and discourse. March is, quite possibly, revealing the first stirrings of our own Women's Spring.

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Rough Language and Real Politics Jeopardize Women's Health

Dr. Elaine Schattner | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Birth Control, Women's Health, Contraception, Pregnancy, Choice, Reproductive Rights, Roe v. Wade, Women's Reproductive Rights, Rush Limbaugh Birth Control, Politics News

Last week I realized that I've taken women's health, or what's really at issue -- women's access to needed care -- for granted. That's changed now.

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The Politics of Women's Health Care

Renee Parsons | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Romney, Blunt Amendment, Contraception, Women's Health Care, Roe v Wade, Santorum, Reproductive Rights, Politics News

While a direct attack on the Fourteenth Amendment is fraught with unintended consequences, anti-choice activists have shrewdly chosen to broaden their efforts against health needs for women in open disdain.

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Senate Votes 'No!' On Anti-Abortion Bill

Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Abortion, Fetal Pain Abortion Bill, Anitere Flores, Florida Senate, Roe v. Wade, Miami News, Sb 290, Anti-Abortion, Nan Rich, Florida Abortion Law, Miami News

On Monday, the Florida Senate axed the anti-abortion bill that passed 78 to 33 in the House of Representatives last week. Florida SB 290 requires ...

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Constitution Check: How Far Can States Go to Dictate Medical Procedures?

Lyle Denniston | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Election 2012, Abortion, Roe v. Wade, Virginia Ultrasound Bill, Ultrasound Bill, Sonogram Bill, Ultrasound Bill Consitutional, Politics News

As long ago as the late 19th Century, the Supreme Court began recognizing that it would be an illegal assault to require an individual to undergo a medical procedure without that person's consent.

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New York State Lawmaker Seeks Updated Abortion And Contraception Laws

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Obama Birth Control, Abortion, New York Politics, Abortion Rights, Birth Control Debate, Roe vs Wade, Kemp Hannon, Birth Control Insurance, Earl Brydges, New-York-Abortion, New York Senate, Video, Abortion Debate, Women's Health, Roe v. Wade, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Birth Control, Politics News

A Democratic New York state senator is pushing a bill to establish one of the most liberal state abortion laws in the country by effectively codifying...

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There Is Nothing Constitutional About State-Mandated Transvaginal Ultrasounds

John W. Whitehead | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Virginia, Abortion, Transvaginal Ultrasound, Contraception, Fourth Amendment, Roe v. Wade, Transvaginal Ultrasounds, Virginia Personhood Bill, Abortion Ultrasounds, Politics News

Requiring doctors to carry out invasive probes on woman without their consent reduces doctors to agents of the state, violating the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against searches by the government.

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Bellbottoms and Skinny Jeans: To Everything There Is a Season

Barbara Lee | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Women, Birth Control, Title IX, Kirsten Gillibrand, Komen Planned Parenthood, Roe v. Wade, Women News

When I was in bellbottoms and platform shoes, it seemed that we were moving past this place of politicizing women's health -- battles were being fought, but we were going to win this war.

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Shades of Pink: Komen and Planned Parenthood

Deborah Stambler | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Women's Issues, Planned Parenthood, Abortion Rights, Karen Handel, Komen Planned Parenthood, Women Politics, Roe v Wade, Komen Cancer, Defunding Planned Parenthood, Santorum Abortion Rape, Video, Politics News

Frankly, I am tired of this controversy. It's a private matter for women and those she chooses to share with. The laws in this country are not dictated by religious beliefs, no matter how powerful the beliefs of those running for public office.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Provides Hint On Potential Same-Sex Marriage Case

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Roe v. Wade, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Gay Marriage, Video, Gay Marriage Scotus, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Scotus, Same-Sex Marriage Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Gay Marriage Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Roe v. Wade, Roe v. Wade Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Gay Marriage, Justice Ginsburg, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News

NEW YORK — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested Friday that her predecessors on the high court mistimed the milestone 1973 Roe v....

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Ron Paul Talks About Abortion In Case Of 'Honest Rape'

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Abortion, Rape, Abortion Rights, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, Elections 2012, Ron Paul Piers Morgran, Roe vs Wade, Video, 2012 Election, Ron Paul Honest Rape, Ron Paul Abortion, Roe v. Wade, Ron Paul 2012, Rick Santorum 2012, Piers Morgan, Abortion Rape, Honest Rape, Politics News

Piers Morgan pressed Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) on the question of abortion in the case of rape Friday in an interview on CNN. Morgan asked the Republ...

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A Missed Opportunity

Ken Blackwell | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Mitch Daniels, State of the Union, Obama State of the Union 2012, State of the Union 2012, Obama State of the Union, State of the Union Mitch Daniels, Roe v. Wade, Politics News

The official Republican response to the president's State of the Union Address was fine -- as far as it went. But Gov. Mitch Daniels missed a golden o...

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Stop Resting on Your Laurels

Jenna Henry Hansen | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Roe v. Wade, Abortion Rights, Women's Healthcare, Roe vs Wade 35 Anniversary, Politics News

I lose my mind when I think that Viagra is covered by many men's health insurance policies and widely available, while when it comes to birth control coverage things are a bit murky.

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Abortion Rights Stand-Off At Supreme Court

HuffingtonPost.com | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Pro Choice, Abortion, National Organization for Women, March for Life, Roe v. Wade, Abortion Rights, Pro-Life, Roe v. Wade Anniversary, Pro-Choice, Pro Life, Video, Politics News

The Roe v. Wade decision protecting the right to have an abortion was handed down from the Supreme Court on Jan. 22, 1973. On Monday night, 39 years l...

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