First it was New Jersey, now it’s North Carolina’s turn to take away family planning funds. In a “midnight vote” late on Monday, the Republican-controlled General Assembly overrode Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto on the annual budget, thus stripping an estimated $200,000 from the state’s two remaining Planned Parenthood affiliates, which oversee nine clinics. This vote [...]
For the first time in the history of the Olympic Games, women from all competing countries will be offered an opportunity to take part in the international event. That’s because the Saudi Arabia government announced yesterday, through its London embassy, that it will permit female athletes to join its team at the 2012 London Games, which [...]
Of Facebook’s more than 900 million users, 58 percent are women. But until yesterday, the social media site’s board of directors was strictly a boy’s club stocked with wealthy white men. Sheryl Sandberg, who has served as chief operating officer of Facebook since signing on with the Silicon Valley-based company in 2008, was appointed to [...]
Rape on American Indian reservations is epidemic. One in three American Indian women will be raped or sexually assaulted in her lifetime–more than twice the national average. To further complicate the physical and psychological devastation of this sexual violence, the most basic access to relevant health care (think emergency contraception and rape kits) is increasingly unavailable to women [...]
The New Hampshire legislature has taken its motto “Live Free or Die” a little too literally with its latest attempt to restrict women’s access to healthcare. For months, the state House has been riding the anti-choice bandwagon, pushing bills that specifically restrict women’s right to choice, cut off federal funding to organizations that perform abortions [...]
