Category: Women’s Rights

God, I’m glad I don’t have a womb. Top-ranking FDA officials have acknowledged they overruled their own scientists’ decision that nonprescription sales would be safe, and the women’s health chief resigned in protest.

On Oct. 3, the day the Miers nomination was announced, Mr. Dobson and other religious conservatives held a conference call to discuss the nomination. One of the people on the call took extensive notes, which I have obtained. According to the notes, two of Ms. Miers’s close friends–both sitting judges–said during the call that she would […]

Breaking from the silence to link to my buddy Pat’s blog which explores the question: What is all the time and money spent to make abortion illegal were spent making it unnecessary?  Join her project at www.makeabortionunncessary.com.  Pat is a great writer, a favorite colleague and a serial blogger.

Planned Parenthood of Southern Pennsylvania has a fantastic idea to raise money and thwart protesters: You decide on the amount you would like to pledge for each protester… When protesters show up on our sidewalks [we] will count and record their number each day from October 1 through November 30, 2005. We will place a […]

Madge has an interview with Terry Cosgrove of Personal PAC. He takes us through the entire national landscape of women’s reproductive rights. There’s a case in New Hampshire coming up that is coming that is going to redraw the lines of abortion nationwide. It talks about if a state statue can exclude a woman’s health […]

FactCheck.org take apart the biography of a bad statistic.

Via ThinkProgress: Those who have heard about the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act – which just passed the House and received an endorsement from President Bush – may wonder how the bill muscled its way through with such glaring problems. Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) provided a possible reason: Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and his staff […]

This is just appalling. Conservative pharmacists are refusing birth control and emergency contraceptives to women with prescriptions from their doctors. If you can’t recommend and see a full range of options for a patient, YOU SHOULDN’T BE IN THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. Does federal and state law require that objecting pharmacists be accommodated?

In the neverending quest to convince women that their bodies are completely unacceptable, comes labioplasty: Women are seeking out this expensive (prices vary from $3000-$10000) laser-based surgery to tighten and reshape their sex organs. Some are doing it for seemingly legitimate reasons; they report that their post-pregnancy sex is unfulfilling due to overstretched musculature or […]