Think Progress, July 13, 2012 by Annie-Rose Strasser Medicaid expansion is just the latest battlefield in the Republicans’ ongoing war against women. Republican governors turning down health care funds are making a political statement, but in the process are hurting, not helping, the women their states. In fact, the two states with the highest number […]
June 7, 2012
Huffington Post, June 7, 2012 by Cristina Page Today is the 47th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling, Griswold v Connecticut, which granted married people the right to use contraception — it’s worth doing the math: it wasn’t until 1965 that the U.S. government permitted married couples to use contraception. (The court would not grant […]
May 21, 2012
Fem 2.0, May 21, 2012 by Soraya Chemaly Women, especially young childless undecided women voters, are talking about jobs, not abortion rights, right? What women really care about is not contraception, not access to family planning resources, not social issues like gay marriage, abstinence-only sex “ed” or Mitt Romney’s 50 year old bullying. Nope – […]
May 17, 2012
Huffington Post, May 17, 2012 by Valerie DeFillipo In one fell swoop, the Appropriations Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives voted today to wipe out $39 million in funding for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. By voting to ban any U.S. contribution to UNFPA in FY2013, House Appropriators made a judgment call that […]
April 20, 2012
Think Progress, April 20, 2012 by Amanda Peterson Beadle Tennessee has long had a law that allowed prosecutors to charge someone for harming a “viable fetus” — defined as about the 32nd week after conception — when someone kills or assaults a pregnant woman. Last year, lawmakers expandedthat definition to apply to any fetus. Now, […]
April 17, 2012
Think Progress, April 17, 2012 by Pat Garofalo As of today — which is Equal Pay Day 2012 — women make 77 cents for every dollar that men earn. Over the course of a woman’s career, that disparity adds up to more than $430,000 in lost wages for an individual woman. As Center for American […]
April 11, 2012
YouTube, April 11, 2012 by Gates Foundation What difference would it make if all women in the world, even the poorest, could make decisions about when and how many children to have? 200 million women who want them, don’t have access to contraceptives. We don’t talk about this inequity because the uncontroversial idea of deciding […]
April 1, 2012
Care To Make a Difference, April 1, 2012 by Jessica Pieklo While the assault on women’s rights is underway nationwide these states have the dubious distinction of being the five worst states for women. The website iVillage compiled data from a host of sources including the 2010 U.S. Census, the National Women’s Law Center, […]
March 16, 2012
An Open Letter to the Texas Governor, Crusader Houston Chronicle Blog, March 16, 2012 by Rev. Ellen Cooper-Davis Dear Governor Perry, I imagine that your schedule must be extremely busy, and I suppose you don’t generally have time to read the various publications of this great state of Texas over coffee. So I will draw […]
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