Reproductive Rights in 2014
Roe v. Wade will mark its 41st birthday later this month, amid ever-increasing assaults on reproductive rights across the nation. According to the latest report from the Guttmacher Institute, states...
View ArticleThose Making It Much Harder To Get An Abortion
“They’re trying to position themselves as these defenders of women’s health and safety,” says Amanda Allen, State Legislative Counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights. “But these are measures that...
View ArticleAs Extreme on Abortion as Ever
According to the National Women’s Law Center, the bill “could result in the entire private insurance market dropping abortion coverage, thereby making such coverage unavailable to anyone.” It would...
View ArticleAbortion Lethal For Many Women
It is claimed that every two days a Brazilian woman dies while trying to end a pregnancy, and there are 200,000 hospital admissions a year as a result of bungled procedures. Eduardo Jorge, the Green...
View ArticleHyde Amendment Restrictions on Abortion
Still, to a one, All* Above All members agree that it is high time for the reproductive justice movement to be proactive. "We're working to engage the women of color, young women and poor women who are...
View ArticleGloria Steinem Dedicates Book To The Doctor Who Changed Her Life
“I just knew that if I went home and married, which I would’ve had to do, it would be to the wrong person; it would be to a life that wasn’t mine, that wasn’t mine at all,” Steinem said in that...
View ArticleStates Took the War on Uteruses to the Next Level in 2015
The state Legislature in Arkansas, which was ranked the second-worst state for women's and children's well-being by the Center for Reproductive Rights for its mass of restrictions this year, also...
View ArticleSupreme Court decides a pro choice victory
The justices voted 5-3 in favor of Texas clinics that had argued the regulations were a thinly veiled attempt to make it harder for women to get an abortion in the nation's second-most populous state....
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