Happy new year Lyndsey! I really need your help, comments, or suggestions..ok I have a partner who i am being sexually active with, and he always uses a condom. Yesterday I had this really bad pain in my lower abdomen and I felt the need of peeing…but I couldn’t pee and when i peed [...]
Because of the Hyde Amendment, every year thousands of women sacrifice food, risk eviction, and pawn their possessions in order to raise money for an abortion. The National Network of Abortion Funds is a group of over 100 grassroots abortion funds around the country and abroad. The Network and their funds work hard to [...]
An article in Wednesday’s LA Times really has me pissed off. (I know . . . that’s really not a new emotional state of being for me, but bear with me.) In it, Barbara Ehrenriech (the author if Nickled and Dimed in America argues that we need a new women’s movement, and that [...]
New York Governor David Paterson signed the Protections for Reproductive Health Care Act last week significantly increasing protective measures for reproductive health providers in the state. The new legislation not only increases legal penalties for perpetrators of violence, it also expands protection to volunteers and paid employees of women’s health clinics.
Lynne Slepian, the wife [...]
I picked up this wonderful book the other day at the library called Choices. I fell in love with it right away as it is emblazoned with a pregnancy test on the cover. It is a collection of true stories about the kinds of choices women make, or should be able to make, concerning reproduction [...]
Times are tough, and birth control is expensive. Still, unintended pregnancy would be a catastrophe for most women in this economy. A recent study by The Guttmacher Institute found that one in four women were having difficulty paying for gynecologist visits and more frightening, skimping on birth control – cutting pills in half, skipping a [...]
The controversy over federal funding for abortion has become the new death panel in the health care debate. Those who oppose health care reform have narrowed in on abortion in hopes of derailing the entire package. And although President Obama stated in his speech to Congress that abortions would not be covered under [...]
President Obama’s bringing in the big guns to get health care reform passed. Last week Michelle Obama weighed in on the subject and explained why health care reform is such and important issue for women. According to The Telegraph:
Mrs Obama made a forceful appeal on behalf of these reforms, saying they were “the [...]
Let me make this clear: Sarah Palin's legacy in Alaska has been an anti-woman one. Apparently Sarah Palin thinks it’s cool to put young women in high risk situations with their family by requiring that they get parental consent for reproductive services. Alaska State officials have certified a bill requiring parental consent before obtaining [...]
One of the fundamentally important events in the women’s liberation movement of the 60s and 70s was the publication of Our Bodies, Ourselves in 1973. The book took a radically different approach to the conversation about the female body and forever changed the way that women talk about their health. What started as a staple-bound [...]
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