Inequality’s Death Toll: A New Calculation | OurFuture.org

Inequality’s Death Toll: A New Calculation | OurFuture.org
Sam Pizzigati has a great post today. He starts by asking, “What has the potential to save more lives, the insurance reforms in the House health care bill or the higher taxes on the rich the bill imposes to pay for those reforms?”
The answer to that question seems [...]

American Association of University Women – Two Minute Activist

American Association of University Women – Two Minute Activist.

An Attack on Reproductive Health Care: The New Domestic Gag Rule

On Saturday night, the House passed the largest health care overhaul bill in 40 years.  Many of AAUW’s key priorities were included in the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), including coverage for maternity care, [...]

Exposing Fake Women’s Health Clinics

Exposing Fake Women’s Health Clinics from Stuart Productions on Vimeo.

Find over 20 short videos on important women’s issues: reproductive rights, sex education, clinics, religion and abortion. Be sure you check the menu of Stuart Productions. Here are a few available:

SIECUS State by State : Abstinence only until marriage programs report
Lessons of Hate in [...]

Pew Research Center: Public Takes Conservative Turn on Gun Control, Abortion

Pew Research Center: Public Takes Conservative Turn on Gun Control, Abortion.
The abortion statistics are interesting though they can be read in various ways — as can be seen on pro-life blogs and web sites.
What I find most interesting is the section on gun rights. The difference betweem white and black men on the topic of [...]

The holy war over Kathleen Sebelius – Los Angeles Times

The holy war over Kathleen Sebelius – Los Angeles Times
Catholic leaders’ threats to deny Communion to the Health and Human Services nominee have serious ramifications.
By TIM RUTTEN
April 25, 2009
When Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius this week vetoed another in the seemingly unending series of restrictive abortion bills her state’s Legislature churns out, it guaranteed that her [...]

Hymen replacement in France on the rise

Judith Warner wonders about the patriarchal control of women’s sexuality in the excellent opinion piece from the NYT on June 12, 2008.

Pro-(Controlling Your) Life | Reproductive Health | RHRealityCheck.org

Pro-(Controlling Your) Life | Reproductive Health | RHRealityCheck.org
In honor of Mother’s Day, Revolution Health has developed this useful interactive map that gives all 50 states a “momScore” designed, according to the site to:
“…compare and evaluate maternal and early childhood health across the United States.”
To determine the scores, researchers evaluated a variety of factors including: access [...]

Final statement on Popline from Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH, Bloomberg School of Public Health

April 8, 2008
Follow Up Statement Regarding POPLINE Database
On Friday, April 4, I learned that the administrators of the POPLINE family-planning database had blocked the term “abortion” as a keyword, which made it more difficult for users of the database to find information on the topic. When I learned of this decision, I immediately reversed it. [...]

Access to Abortion Search to be Restored in POPLINE

A very quick turn- around thanks to many activists in the feminist and library communities. Excellent!
Our Bodies Our Blog: Access to Abortion Search to be Restored in POPLINE; Johns Hopkins Releases Statement

Statement on POPLINE search term

Dean Klag has posted his official response to the change to Popline:
Statement on POPLINE search term

I could not disagree more strongly with this decision, and I have directed that the POPLINE administrators restore “abortion” as a search term immediately. I will also launch an inquiry to determine why this change occurred.The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg [...]