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Wall Street Journal Claims War on Women a "Myth"

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

care2.com - By Robin Marty - Mar. 27 (Fact Check) - in essence, what Eberstadt really wants to talk about is whether women are “happier” now than they were back when you only had sex while married and for the purpose of making babies. And, in case you didn’t know this, you aren’t.

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WATCH: Amy Poehler & Seth Meyers Sound Off On Birth Control

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers - Feb. 19 (Comedy News) - Amy Poehler got back to her "Weekend Update" roots on "Saturday Night Live" this weekend when she joined former co-host Seth Meyers for a "Really?!?"...

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Democratic Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing After Republicans Prevent Women From Testifying | AlterNet

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Igor Volsky - Feb. 16 (News Report) - Democrats tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for preventing women and minorities from testifying before a hearing examining the Obama administration’s new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. Republicans oppose the administration’s rule and have sponsored legislation that would allow employers to limit the availability of birth control to women.

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Santorum living in stone-age

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Stephanie Coontz - Feb. 14 (Opinion) - Presidential candidate Rick Santorum is unhappy with last week's compromise over whether Catholic institutions should be required to cover contraception for their employees, arguing that birth control "shouldn't be covered by insurance at all."

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Occupiers Mic-Check Santorum as His Surge Continues--Then Are Tasered

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Sarah Seltzer - Feb. 14 (News Report) - Police ended up dragging two of the protesters outside and tasering them. Watch this disturbing video of their removal below--a local news report is here

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The health care law, Catholics and birth control

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Becky Bowers - Feb. 10 (Fact Check) - Is President Barack Obama’s administration requiring the Catholic Church to provide birth control coverage to nuns? As rhetoric rises in a clash between Catholic leaders and the federal government over a rule requiring co-pay-free coverage of contraceptives in most health plans, here’s a guide. What the rule says The newly final rule stems from the Affordable Care Act of 2010 — what Republican presidential candidates call "Obamacare." It affects the health plans employers offer their ... >>More

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APNewsBreak: Komen official quits breast cancer charity over Planned Parenthood dispute

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Associated Press - Feb. 07 (News Report) - A high-ranking official resigned Tuesday from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity after a dispute over whether the group should give funding to Planned Parenthood, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press. Karen Handel, the charity’s vice president for public policy, told Komen officials that she supported the move to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood. She said the discussion started before she arrived at the organization and was approved at the highest levels of the charity.

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Breasts Yes, Vaginas No? Race for the Cure Group's Bizarre Capitulation to Right-Wingers (And How to Hit Them Where it Hurts)

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Amanda Marcotte - Feb. 01 (News Report) - Despite Komen’s lame attempts to claim otherwise, it was widely understood that this was about Komen aligning itself with the anti-choice movement, despite the anti-choice movement’s long history of opposing not just safe and legal abortion, but also access to contraception and even the prevention of cervical cancer through the use of the HPV vaccine.

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Kathleen Sebelius Pressed On Plan B Decision By 14 Democratic Senators

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Amanda Terkel - Dec. 14 (News Report) - Fourteen Democratic senators, led by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), sent the Obama administration a letter on Tuesday asking for the scientific basis behind its decision to limit access to emergency contraception. Last week, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rejected the Food and Drug Administration's conclusion that the Plan B One-Step pill was safe enough to be placed on pharmacy shelves without an age limit. The decision raised eyebrows because HHS has never before overruled the FDA on a drug recommendation. Many reproductive rights groups openly questioned whether the Obama administration was putting electoral politics above sound science ahead of next year's election.

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House Passes H.R. 358, the "Let Women Die" Act of 2011

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Oct. 14 (News Report) - Yesterday the GOP-led House of Representatives, with the blessings and encouragement of the United States Council of Catholic Bishops and extremist religious groups such as the Family Research Council, passed a bill in a vote of 251 to 172 that would, among other things, allow doctors and hospitals to "exercise their conscience" by letting pregnant women facing emergency medical conditions die.

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Texas GOP Rep On Cuts To Family Planning: ‘Of Course This Is A War On Birth Control’

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Sep. 21 (News Report) - while they smother women’s rights with one hand, Republicans insist “we are not attacking women” on the other. “This is not a war against women,” said Republican founder of WomanTrend Kellyanne Conway. Texas Rep. Wayne Christian (R), however, begs to differ. With Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) at the helm, Texas Republicans have passed an “emergency” law forcing women to view a sonogram before an abortion, threatened a poor women’s health care program over Planned Parenthood funding, are seeking to restrict hospitals and physicians over abortion procedures, and has cut funding for family planning clinics by two-thirds. When asked whether Texas’s anti-family planning efforts were “a war on birth control,” Christian replied, “Well of course this is a war on birth control and abortions and everything”:

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Stephen Colbert's Hilarious Takedown of Republican Paranoia on Birth Control

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Stephen Colbert, Sarah Selzer - Aug. 05 (Comedy News) - Republicans think birth control being covered by health insurance as "preventative care"--something that should have happened long ago--is going to bring about the end of civilization. Seriously. This insane kind of paranoia is the perfect target for Stephen Colbert, who launched into a killer satire of this reaction on his show last night.

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Obama's Birth-Control Shakeup

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Amanda Marcotte - Aug. 02 (News Analysis) - 'Insurance companies will be required to provide contraception without a copay - and conservative opposition, while predictable, makes no sense.

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15-Year-Old Girl Faces Life in Prison for a Miscarriage

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Ed Pilkington - Jul. 04 (Special Report) - Rennie Gibbs is accused of murder, but the crime she is alleged to have committed does not sound like an ordinary killing. Yet she faces life in prison in Mississippi over the death of her unborn child.

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10 States With the Most Shocking Anti-Woman Legislation

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Amanda Marcotte - Apr. 07 (News Analysis) - Sadly, this is just a sample of the number of bills that have cropped up across the country in a nationwide attempt to wipe out women’s right to abortion--and in some cases, contraception--once and for all.

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Egypt has a population crisis as well as a democracy crisis

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Grist - By Lisa Hymas. - Feb. 06 (Special Report) - Hosni Mubarak is a dictator who has to go—that’s obviously the animating force behind the protests in Egypt. And more power to the protesters! But Egypt’s problems run much deeper than its autocratic regime, and one of its biggest problems is unsustainable population growth. Here’s a 2009 Al Jazeera report on population pressures in Egypt: The country’s populace has soared from 44 million when Mubarak took power in 1981 to more than 80 million today, making Egypt by far the most populous country in the Middle East and the Arab world. And Egyptians are densely concentrated, living in a narrow band along the Nile, as the rest of the country is dry and largely uninhabitable. If Egypt’s current growth rate continues, its population could hit 160 million by 2050 . The Mubarak regime has promoted birth control and smaller families , and helped to slow the birthrate. In 1981, the average woman had more than five children ; now that figure ...

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Child marriage bill UPDATE

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Conor Williams - Dec. 17 (News Report) - In case you missed it, S. 987 (The International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act) failed to pass last night. Despite unanimously passing the Senate, it only garnered a 241-166 majority in the House. Since House rules were in suspension, the bill needed a two-thirds majority to pass.

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Divorce and Abortion: Red States and Blue States

Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ross Douthat - May. 11 (Opinion) - When it comes to marriage and teen pregnancy rates, there’s more than one America.

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Study: Abstinence program most effective at delaying sex among youths

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Ashley Hayes - Feb. 02 (News) - Study: Abstinence-only education effective

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Bush birth control policies helped fuel Africa's baby boom

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Shashank Bengali - Dec. 15 (News Report) - At age 45, after giving birth to 13 children in her village of thatch roofs and bare feet, Beatrice Adongo made a discovery that startled her: birth control.

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Birth control pill - for men?

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

kinseyconfidential.org - By Natalie - Apr. 20 (News Report) - Usually when we talk about birth control as sexual health educators, we're talking to women. But the future of birth control might be able to even out the load of preventing pregnancy, if University of Iowa researchers have a say. They recently published a study in the American Journal of Human Genetics which looks at a genetic disorder that causes sperm to slow down rapidly, thus making it more difficult for the sperm to penetrate the egg of a female and cause pregnancy.

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Teens and the morning after pill

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Jill U. Adams - Apr. 06 (News Report) - A judge's ruling means girls under 17 may soon have over-the-counter access to the emergency contraceptive.

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So Little Time, So Much Damage

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Nov. 04 (Editorial) - . Most presidents put on a last-minute policy stamp, but in Mr. Bush’s case it is more like a wrecking ball. We fear it could take months, or years, for the next president to identify and then undo all of the damage. Here is a look — by no means comprehensive — at some of Mr. Bush’s recent parting gifts and those we fear are yet to come.

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Students join to bring mandatory sex ed to schools

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Megan Holland - Oct. 08 (Special Report) - Sawyer, a junior at the University of Alaska Anchorage, wants to do something about it. She, with other politically minded Anchorage college students and even some local high schoolers, are banding together to reform the way sex education is taught around the state. They're reversing roles and telling their parents and school administrators that kids need more safety talk, not less. Their goal: mandatory comprehensive sex ed in high school. It would be a radical shift from the hands-off approach Alaska takes, which leaves sex ed to individual school districts.

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The Debate Over Plan B

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 17:35:17 -0700

CBS News - By Lesley Stahl - Jun. 11 (Special Report) - Did Religion Play Role In An FDA Decision? Did the Bush White House pressure the Food and Drug Administration to block the "Morning After Pill," known as Plan B, from being sold over-the-counter at your local drug store? That question is the focus of a hearing in federal court on June 13, where birth control advocates have sued the FDA to make the drug available without a prescription. Millions of women have used Plan B as an emergency contraceptive to prevent a pregnancy in situations like a condom break or a rape. Right now, it's only available by prescription, but because it must be taken within 72 hours, the drug's manufacturer asked FDA for permission to sell Plan B over-the-counter. That was three years ago. And, even though the drug is considered totally safe, the FDA has repeatedly postponed a decision, including taking no action since 60 Minutes aired this story in the Fall of 2005. Plan B's problems began when it was targeted by anti-abortion-rights groups and became part of a wider debate over whether religious beliefs are encroaching on scientific decision-making.

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