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Jonathan Alter on Republican Proposal To Defund Planned Parenthood

Posted on March 14, 2011
Bloomberg/Businessweek: Abortion Bill Has Republicans Heading Off Rails, by Jonathan Alter: Do so-called pro-life activists want to posture about abortion or actually reduce the number of aborted fetuses each year? If it?s the latter, they should be trying to expand...

Health Care Overhaul Prompts New Battles Over Abortion Insurance Coverage

Posted on March 14, 2011
Wash. Post: New fronts open in abortion wars, by N.C. Aizenman: A year after its passage, the health-care overhaul is opening fresh battlefields in an old and bitter debate. Almost immediately after the law came into effect, five states passed...

Pregnant Woman Tracks How Many Subway Riders Give Up Their Seat

Posted on March 14, 2011
Huff. Post: Pregnant Woman Tracks How Many People Give Up Their Seat On Subway: Would you give up your seat to a pregnant subway rider? Elizabeth Carey Smith wanted to find out. While noticeably pregnant, she rode the city's subways...

Montana Court Directs Woman To Undergo Forced Hysterectomy as Treatment for Cancer

Posted on March 14, 2011
The Volokh Conspiracy: May Court Order Hysterectomy as Treatment for Cancer, on the Grounds that the Woman's Refusal Is Based on a Religious Delusion?, by Eugene Volokh: ?During a hearing conducted on March 1, 2011, the District Court determined that...

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Anti-Choice Activists Oppose Federal Stopgap Funding Bill

Posted on March 10, 2011
Washington Wire (Wall St. Journal blog): Abortion Foes Try to Block Stopgap Funding Bill, by Patrick O'Connor: Abortion opponents have complicated the prospects for another short-term funding bill to keep the government open after March 18. The Family Research Council...

Minnesota Legislators Introduce Abortion Restrictions Including Post-20-Week Ban

Posted on March 10, 2011
mndaily.com: Abortion debate reignites at Capitol, by Kyle Potter: The latest state bill in a surge of similar moves by Republican legislators seeks to ban abortions 20 weeks after fertilization. Republicans regained majorities in the state Senate and House of...

Oklahoma House Passes Post-20-Week Abortion Ban

Posted on March 10, 2011
Reuters: Oklahoma House passes bill banning abortion after 20 weeks, by Steve Olafson: The Oklahoma House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of gestation. The bill passed 94-2 without debate and will....

A Brief Pap Smear Test Guide

Posted on March 10, 2011
Chicagao Tribune: Pap smear test guide: It's Women's History Month and Cancer Awareness Month, so this is as good a time as any to find out the how's and why's of getting a pap smear test. . . .

Thank You to Abortion Providers Around the World

Posted on March 10, 2011
A message from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice for Abortion Providers Appreciation Day:

Texas Youth Push for Comprehensive Sex Ed

Posted on March 09, 2011
Reuters: Texas youth to school districts: Let's talk about sex, by Corrie MacLaggan: Texas teens and young adults descended on the Texas Capitol on Tuesday with an unusual message for public schools: Let's talk about sex. The group of about...

Indiana Abortion Bill Requires Patients To Receive Questionable Information About Abortion

Posted on March 09, 2011
The Huffington Post: Indiana Bill Would Force Doctors To Tell Women That Having An Abortion May Lead To Breast Cancer, by Amanda Terkel: Hundreds of protesters rallied at the Indiana statehouse on Tuesday in opposition to restrictive abortion measures that...

Anti-Choice Extremists Continue to Target Abortion Providers in Wichita and Elsewhere

Posted on March 05, 2011
Ms. blog: Kansas Abortion Doctor Targeted by Extremists?Sound Familiar?, by Kathy Spillar: ?Are doctors who are willing to provide [abortions] still just on their own, with their face on WANTED posters ? waiting to see what happens next?? How do...

Commentary on Why the Right Attacked Planned Parenthood

Posted on March 04, 2011
The Nation: Why the Right Attacked Unions, ACORN and Planned Parenthood, by Ilyse Hogue: For the past two weeks, all eyes have been glued to Madison, Wisconsin. The collective and joyful resistance to Governor Scott Walker?s power-grabbing budget bill has...

White House Report on Status of Women in America Confirms Wage, Caregiving, and Health Gaps

Posted on March 04, 2011
Atlantic Magazine: Status of Women Measured by White House -- But Then What?, by Ann Friedman: In the 1950s, Betty Friedan identified women's dissatisfaction as "the problem that has no name." In the Bush years, it became the problem that...

Mandatory Vasectomy To Go With Mandatory Sonogram?

Posted on March 04, 2011
The Dallas Morning News: Mandatory sonogram; how 'bout mandatory vasectomy?, by Christy Hoppe: As the debate on sonograms for women seeking abortions hit the four and a half hour mark, Rep. Marisa Marquez, D-El Paso, offered an amendment that shook...

Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty for Philadelphia Doctor

Posted on March 03, 2011
Reuters: Philadelphia abortion doctor likely to face death penalty, by Dave Warner: Philadelphia prosecutors paved the way in court on Wednesday toward seeking the death penalty for a doctor accused of killing live, viable babies at his abortion clinic...

SD Senate Approves 72-Hour Waiting Period and Requirement to Visit CPC Before Abortion

Posted on March 03, 2011
TPM: SD Senate Passes Bill Requiring 72-Hour Waiting Period Before Abortions, by Jillian Rayfield: A bill that would require women to wait 72 hours and receive counseling before getting an abortion has passed the South Dakota senate. The bill, if...

Revised House Abortion Bill Still a Step Back for Women's Rights

Posted on March 03, 2011
Huff. Post: Pro-Choice Advocates: GOP's Revised Abortion Bill Remains 'Extremely Harmful' to Women, by Amanda Terkel: WASHINGTON -- After significant public controversy over H.R. 3, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, lawmakers quietly amended the legislation and removed some...

Nevada Sees Revived Debate on Legal Brothels

Posted on March 02, 2011
NY Times: Nevada Politicians Debate an Older Profession, by Jennifer Medina: CARSON CITY, Nev. ? Brooke Taylor voted for Harry Reid in his battle for re-election to the Senate last fall. But now she is incensed. Mr. Reid recently visited...

Kagan and Sotomayor Shape Dynamic of Supreme Court Oral Arguments

Posted on March 02, 2011
USA Today: 'Dynamic' duo of Kagan, Sotomayor add vigor to court, by Joan Biskupic: WASHINGTON ? After each Supreme Court appointment in recent years, the arguments before the justices have gotten more energetic and forceful. Now, the two newest justices,...

Embryo Scheduled to "Testify" in Ohio Legislature

Posted on March 02, 2011
RH Reality Check: (VIDEO) Look Who?s ?Talking? Now: A Fetus Is Scheduled to Testify in Front of Lawmakers in Ohio, Martha Kempner: A fetus is scheduled to testify in front of the Ohio legislature. I kid you not. Though I...

NYC Council Approves Ordinance Requiring Truth in Advertising for "Crisis Pregnancy Centers"

Posted on March 02, 2011
The Associated Press is reporting that the New York City Council has approved an ordinance requiring so-called "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" to disclose that they do not provide abortion and contraceptive services. A month ago, a federal district court in Maryland...

ACLU Brief Argues Religious Beliefs Should Not Dictate Insurance Coverage for Reproductive Health Care

Posted on February 28, 2011
ACLU News Release: ACLU Tells Court Religious Beliefs Should Not Dictate Insurance Coverage For Reproductive Health Care: RICHMOND ? The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Virginia filed a friend-of-the-court brief today opposing faith-based Liberty University?s argument that...

Live Action Employs Questionable Tactics in its Attack on Planned Parenthood

Posted on February 28, 2011
Huffington Post: Behind The Assault On Planned Parenthood, by Ryan Grim: WASHINGTON -- The House Republican move to strip federal funds from the nation's most well-known reproductive health care provider as part of its budget last week was the culmination...

More Than 5,000 People Rally to Support Planned Parenthood in NYC

Posted on February 28, 2011
New York Daily News: Lawmakers join protestors rallying against proposed budget cuts to Planned Parenthood, by Keldy Ortiz & Kathleen Lucadamo: New York lawmakers joined more than 5,000 pro-choice supporters Saturday at a protest against federal budget cuts to Planned...

Resurgence in IUD Use Among American Women

Posted on February 27, 2011
Guttmacher News Release: The IUD makes a comeback: Changing attitudes about intrauterine devices (IUDs) and increasing recognition of their safety and efficacy have led to a resurgence in use, according to a commentary in Contraception co-authored by Lawrence Finer, Guttmacher...

Nebraska State Representative Introduces ?Justifiable Homicide? Bill

Posted on February 27, 2011
Mother Jones: Nebraska Resurrects "Justifiable Homicide" Bill, by Nick Baumann & Daniel Schulman: Just when abortion rights supporters thought they had beaten a controversial bill they believe would legalize the killing of abortion providers, it has cropped up again?this time...

A Response to Kanye West's Abortion Tweet

Posted on February 25, 2011
Salon.com: An open letter to Kanye West about his abortion tweet, by Drew Grant: The hip-hop star's message isn't pro-life or pro-choice. It's just dumb Dear Kanye, I know you are very busy with "All the Lights," I'm really happy...

Controversial Billboard in NYC, Declaring "Womb" the "Most Dangerous" Place for African Americans, Is Taken Down

Posted on February 25, 2011
UPI.com: NYC anti-abortion billboard taken down: A New York billboard erected by an anti-abortion group that focused on high African-American abortion rates has been taken down, authorities said. A spokesman for Lamar Advertising of Louisiana said it was taken down...

Pres. Obama Directs Justice Department to Stop Defending DOMA

Posted on February 23, 2011
NY Times: U.S., in Shift, Sees Marriage Act as Violation of Gay Rights, by Charlie Savage & Sheryl Gay Stolberg: WASHINGTON ? President Obama, in a major legal policy shift, has directed the Justice Department to stop defending the Defense...

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