Related News ItemsCOMMENTARY: Reproductive Health: Sidelined but irrepressibleMon, 21 May 2012 22:40:03 -0700
Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) - When the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill (House Bill 4244) made it past Committee on Population in the Philippines early in 2011, legislators and civil society organizations supporting RH were ecstatic. They had reason to be, for after 14 years of being bottled up in committee, the RH bill had blasted its way to the plenary and appeared to have the momentum.
Read More... Reproductive Health: Sidelined but irrepressibleMon, 21 May 2012 05:52:10 -0700
When the Reproductive Health Bill (House Bill 4244) made it past Committee on Population early in 2011, legislators and civil society organizations supporting RH were ecstatic. They had reason to be, for after 14 years of being bottled up in committee, the RH bill had blasted its way to the plenary and appeared to have the momentum.
Read More... Jean Pakter, Women’s Health Advocate in New York, Dies at 101Tue, 22 May 2012 09:30:49 -0700
As head of the city’s maternity services bureau, Dr. Pakter supported a law that legalized abortion in New York before Roe v. Wade, and one of her studies led to a breakthrough in care for premature babies.
Read More... Planned Parenthood president speaks to Stanford on mobilizing for reproductive health in the 21st centuryMon, 21 May 2012 13:22:42 -0700
Cecile Richards explained the importance of looking to the next generation, the possibilities offered by new technologies and why Planned Parenthood is arguably stronger than ever.
Read More... Right to health care without harassmentFri, 18 May 2012 05:00:40 -0700
Contrary to what most anti-abortion proponents will say, women and their health-care providers do in fact have a right to receive and deliver reproductive health care, especially preventive care, without being harassed and vilified by religious bigotry.
Read More... Judd: GOP 'dumb' on women issuesThu, 24 May 2012 09:13:41 -0700
She says she's willing to do whatever she can as a surrogate for Barack Obama.
Read More... Editorial: Monitoring needed outside women's health clinicsTue, 22 May 2012 23:42:25 -0700
Backers of a measure to put even tighter restrictions on anti-abortion demonstrators outside women's health clinics complain that Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino has joined the larger 'war on women' being waged across the country, this following his Friday veto of the measure.
Read More... What a late-term abortion ban would mean for D.C.Fri, 18 May 2012 09:12:00 -0700
When Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) introduced a bill to ban late-term abortions in the nation’s capitol, it didn’t get much attention. It was last January, and reproductive health advocates were heading into all-consuming national battles over Komen and contraceptives. Rep. Franks’s bill hardly registered. Read full article >>
Read More... Health-care protest bills get Missouri OKSat, 19 May 2012 17:49:03 -0700
Health-care bills taking a swipe and President Obama's health-care program passed the Missouri legislature this week. One allows employers to refuse health insurance for birth control; the other would let voters decide whether to allow the creation of a health-insurance exchange.
Read More... Beth Burkstrand-Reid: The War on Sex for PleasureWed, 16 May 2012 11:16:26 -0700
Reproductive health services are important because the act of sex is important. But it is very unlikely that we will soon see elected officials admit en masse that they like having sex with their spouses and (by God!) birth control should be therefore be accessible for that very reason.
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