HERvotes Blog Carnival: National Women’s Health Week

For the 13th #HERvotesblog carnival, we’re celebrating National Women’s Health Week.  The federal government launched National Women’s Health Week ten years ago in an effort to improve women’s ...Read More

HERvotes Blog Carnival: Women Need Economic Security

In time for Mothers Day, the 12th HERvotes blog carnival is dedicated to getting the word out about economic security for women, especially in their retirement years.  Women need better benefits ...Read More

HERvotes Blog Carnival: Tell Congress to Reauthorize VAWA!

For the eleventh #HERvotes blog carnival, we’re joining together to urge the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Domestic violence results in over two million injuries every ...Read More

HERvotes: Why I Support the Health Care Law

As the Supreme Court begins hearings that could spell the dismantling of the Affordable Care Act, the Ms. Blog will highlight what the act has done–and will do–for women. Here, Amy Cotton ...Read More

Women To Storm the 2012 Ballot Boxes in Defense of Health and Economic Rights

“We’re here to express the outrage of literally millions of American women,” announced Feminist Majority president, Ms. publisher and long-time activist Eleanor Smeal at the National Press ...Read More

HERvotes: Boehner Ups the Threat Against Contraception Coverage

This morning, House Speaker John Boehner vowed in a House floor speech to overturn the provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that would require faith-affiliated hospitals ...Read More

HERvotes: 11 Doctors Explain Why All Employers Should Cover Birth Control

Some religious institutions are objecting to new federal rules requiring that they cover contraception for their employees in their health insurance policies. Below, Physicians for Reproductive Choice ...Read More

HERvotes: Why Is the Washington Post Backing Bishops Over Women?

The Washington Post is supporting the Catholic Bishops by repeatedly (and one-sidedly) attacking the Obama administration’s decision to maintain contraception coverage for millions of women, ...Read More

HERvotes: Where’s the Bipartisan Support for the Violence Against Women Act?

According to the media, the public holds the bickering, do-nothing Congress in unprecedented low esteem. But here’s some good news: In the weeks and months ahead, there is one area where our ...Read More

HERvotes: How Economic Insecurity Enables Abuse

One in four women. In mid-December the Center for Disease Control (CDC) released a report shining a spotlight on the physical and sexual abuse that women in our country face. One in four women has ...Read More

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