When Abortion Is an Economic Necessity
February 24, 2012 by On the Issues Magazine · 2 Comments
A new study puts another face on women’s reproductive decision-making during an economic downturn. It indicates that low-income women increasingly are being forced to “choose” abortions ...Read More
We’re Winning One War on Women, But Losing Another
February 21, 2012 by Carole Joffe · 8 Comments
In the last ten days or so we have seen Republicans and their religious allies wage a war against contraception–and bungle it badly. With poll after poll showing that a majority of Americans ...Read More
Catholic Laity Fed Up With U.S. Bishops’ View of Birth Control
February 16, 2012 by Jon O'Brien · 6 Comments
Catholics have long disagreed with the Church hierarchy on contraception The New York Times/CBS News polling released this week backed up what most of us already knew: The majority of Americans (65 ...Read More
The Long History of the War on Contraception
February 14, 2012 by Ellen Chesler · 5 Comments
For those surprised about the recent fervor over Obama’s contraception coverage decision, a look at its deep roots. Republicans for Planned Parenthood last week issued a call for nominations for ...Read More
Obama’s Plan B
February 10, 2012 by Annie Shields · 1 Comment
The White House today announced an update to its widely supported and yet hotly contested decision not to expand the religious exemption for no-cost contraceptive coverage. At stake was whether religiously ...Read More
Abortion Is 14 Times Safer Than Childbirth (No Surprise)
February 3, 2012 by Carol King · 5 Comments
This week the world was stunned by the announcement that the much-lauded, seemingly apolitical and altruistic Susan G. Komen for the Cure cut off funding for breast cancer screenings for poor women ...Read More
The Sound of Silence: Where Is the Anti-Choice Outcry Over North Carolina’s Forced Sterilization of Women of Color?
January 27, 2012 by Pamela Merritt · 12 Comments
A task force in North Carolina recently ruled that survivors of that state’s eugenics program should be paid $50,000 each in financial compensation. Eugenics is often defined as the science of ...Read More
When “Just Ask Your Doctor” Doesn’t Work
December 13, 2011 by Carole Joffe · 1 Comment
For a woman to ‘ask her physician’ for a safe and effective contraceptive presupposed that she had a physician, that she could afford a contraceptive, and that the physician would be willing ...Read More
Just When You Thought it Was Safe To Be a Woman in Ohio…
December 2, 2011 by Holly L. Derr · 4 Comments
After languishing for nearly five months, a “fetal heartbeat” bill that passed the Ohio House in June has reared its ugly head and been referred to a Senate committee. Though Senate president ...Read More
Things That Make You Go Aaargh: Reproductive Rights Edition
November 20, 2011 by Holly L. Derr · 2 Comments
Was it Thomas Jefferson who said “eternal vigilance is the price of freedom” or Mad Eye Moody? Oh that’s right, it was actually a woman–suffragist and anti-lynching crusader ...Read More
