Komen and the Dangers of Corporate-Funded Causes

Breast-cancer charity Susan G. Komen’s decision to pull funding from Planned Parenthood–an organization that provides subsidized breast cancer exams for lower-income women–leaves me ...Read More

Ask an Abortion Provider: Roe v. Wade Edition

It’s Trust Women Week! Nearly 40 years ago, abortion was legalized in the United States. To mark the occasion, Lola McClure, a registered nurse, interviewed Dr. Nancy Stanwood, an obstetrician/gynecologist, ...Read More

Birth Control For Men? For Real This Time?

When the birth control pill hit the U.S. market 51 years ago, the hope had been for a male method to follow close at its heels. Yet, despite decades of research and periodic hopeful headlines, progress ...Read More

Yet Another Huge, Comprehensive Study Finds that Abortion Doesn’t Cause Mental Health Problems

Last week, the UK Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AMRC), published the world’s largest, most comprehensive and systematic review of mental health outcomes and abortion care. The review included ...Read More

Et Tu, Sebelius? HHS Secretary Blocks Over-the-Counter Plan B

Today, as expected, FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg approved a pharmaceutical application to make emergency contraception Plan B available over the counter without an age restriction. Then, flabbergasting ...Read More

H&M Whittles Down Acceptable Body Types To Exactly One

I hope that years from now we’ll look back and laugh at the time when female clothing models were all expected to conform to a very narrow and specific range of body types. If so, we’ve ...Read More

Catholic Bishops Lose Grants, Raise Stink

Yesterday, some House Republicans attempted to sacrifice the reproductive-health needs of trafficking victims to political gamesmanship. (Yes, given the players involved, we think gamesmanship is ...Read More

On World AIDS Day, Remember Women

Joyce has 11 children. Mary says this casually, as if it’s commonplace. And in her experience as a midwife in Uganda, it is. For women in her community, contraception is largely out of reach. Employment ...Read More

Should Organized Religion Have More Rights Than Women?

Right now, Catholic bishops, charities, schools and universities are demanding exemptions from new rules requiring that insurance plans cover contraception for women, free of charge. And President ...Read More

A Vulva Looks Like THAT? Demystifying Female Genitalia for Teens

A few weeks ago, New York Times Magazine carried an amazing article–Teaching Good Sex—that uses a Philadelphia private school’s approach to sex ed to illustrate a simple but controversial question: ...Read More

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