Exposing Fake Women’s Health Clinics

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

More on baby gender selection and discounts

Sometimes people may wonder how librarians find the information they do.  It’s genetic. My profs in Library school called it having an I-gene. But that I-gene can really lead to some strange travels, one of which I had today.
June 22, 2009 Web excursion:
Went back to Contexts.org/ (sociology site of great interest), went to their blogs [...]

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 [...]

Religious Leaders in Colorado Respond to the Egg-As-Person Amendment | Reproductive Health | RHRealityCheck.org

Religious Leaders in Colorado Respond to the Egg-As-Person Amendment | Reproductive Health | RHRealityCheck.org
The question of when life begins is an incredibly complex one with enormous legal and ethical ramifications for contraception, abortion, in vitro fertilization, embryonic stem cell research and the very definition of our humanity.
Colorado voters will decide this thorny question in November.
On [...]

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 [...]

UNFPA: News: Today, May 5, is International Midwives Day

Every day, midwives are saving women’s lives. In Afghanistan, a man cannot attend a woman in childbirth and because of the recent years under the Taleban, young women did not receive enough education to ready them to take their place as future midwives.  That’s in only one country. Governments everywhere must support educational opportunities for [...]

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 [...]

Why is a Government-Funded Reproductive Health Database Blocking Users from Searching for Abortion Articles? « Women’s Health News

Popline, which describes itself as “Your connection to the world’s reproductive health literature”, is blocking the term “abortion” in its keyword searches. In effect, it has required that its search engine ignore that term in all searches.  Since it is funded by Government monies, the Johns Hopkins database administrators have decided that this is [...]