On World AIDS Day, Remember Women
December 1, 2011 by Elisha Dunn-Georgiou · 2 Comments
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?
November 30, 2011 by Georgia Platts · 11 Comments
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
Need Birth Control? Don’t Bother Asking Apple’s Siri
November 28, 2011 by Robin Marty · 25 Comments
Want to use Apple’s new interactive “Siri” on your iPhone? “She” has tons of information–just as long as you don’t ask about birth control, abortion, emergency ...Read More
Will Obama Betray the Other 99 Percent?
November 23, 2011 by Carole Joffe · Leave a Comment
There is another 99 percent group in our country, distinct from but inextricably entwined with the now more familiar #99Percent, those everyday Americans, who–in such a brilliant framing by ...Read More
A Message about Birth Control from the 71 Percent
November 21, 2011 by Meghan Shalvoy · 1 Comment
Growing up a New Yorker, I was fortunate enough to live in a state that mandated that insurance plans cover birth control. Growing up the daughter of a nurse who was employed by a Catholic hospital, ...Read More
Helping Trafficking Victims Isn’t Biased
November 21, 2011 by Dena Sher · 3 Comments
Earlier this week, Michael Gerson, an op-ed writer for The Washington Post, penned a particularly troubling piece, accusing the Obama administration—and the ACLU—of anti-Catholic bias, because ...Read More
Alice Dreger, Gender Bender
November 8, 2011 by Danielle Magnuson · 1 Comment
Reprinted from the Utne Reader Alice Dreger has made it her life’s work to investigate–and at times expose–the unethical medical treatment of people who have intersex conditions. “I ...Read More
The Real Story of Margaret Sanger
November 2, 2011 by Ellen Chesler · 5 Comments
Birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger is back in the news this week thanks to GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, who claimed on national television that Planned Parenthood, the visionary global ...Read More
As We Hit 7 Billion, Behold the Future of Contraception!
November 2, 2011 by Jessica Mack · 6 Comments
This Monday, as the world’s 7 billionth baby was being born somewhere on the planet, I was sitting in a conference room in Seattle catching a glimpse of the future of contraception. I was at, in ...Read More
Why I’m Glad My Miscarriage Wasn’t in Mississippi
November 1, 2011 by Kim Gandy · 89 Comments
I had a miscarriage in 1991. No one accused me of murder. No one arrested and jailed me on suspicion of abortion. No one charged me with endangering the miscarried fetus. If Initiative 26 to amend ...Read More
