Senate Pushes Forward a Permanent Ban on the Global Gag Rule

Seems like common sense to me. Then again, the Bush Administration didn’t have a whole lot of common sense, particularly when it came to women’s reproductive health. With that being said, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed an amendment to the foreign aid appropriations bill two days ago, seeking to ban the Global Gag Rule, permanently. [...]

Decoding Nominee Sonia Sotomayor

Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s record on abortion is virtually non-existent. The closest she has come to a decision on reproductive rights is the case of Center for Reproductive Law & Policy v. Bush. This case is situated around the Global Gag Rule, also known as the Mexico City Policy, that Bill Clinton repealed, George W. Bush [...]