They say everything’s big in Texas, but they may want to look again this week, as the budget for women’s healthcare has been slashed to pieces. This was not an angst-filled legislative move to offset sinking revenues. The money – available through Federal Medicaid funding – is sitting there waiting for them, with their name on [...]
Editor’s Note: Robin Bravender of Politico reports of a recent rise in activity – specifically fundraising and membership enrollment – in women’s groups such as EMILY’s List, whose participation has doubled in the past 18 months to more than 1 million members. The increase is attributed to the political attention around “women’s issues” such abortion, contraception [...]
Keeping up with the dizzying array of anti-choice legislation littering statehouses around the nation is a full-time job with no benefits. It’s estimated that more than 1,000 versions of bills restricting access to abortion were floated last session alone, ostensibly fulfilling Republicans’ loud and communal campaign promise of creating jobs – albeit only in the medical [...]
Editor’s Note: Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks at HuffingtonPost.com have a provocative piece on what they describe as “The Republican War On Women.” Think for a moment about the entire verbal output of all the candidates in the Republican debates of the last few months. Did you hear any candidate say anything at all about women’s [...]
Karen Handel, the embattled Senior Vice President for Policy at Susan G. Komen for the Cure, resigned on Tuesday following public outcry over the decision that Komen would withdraw funding from Planned Parenthood. The Komen foundation reversed its decision last Friday, and four days later, Handel is gone. “Just as Komen’s best interests and the [...]
It seems fitting that the same week Facebook filed to go public that the social media giant would have a big impact on a major, national issue. Earlier this week, the Susan G. Komen Foundation decided to withdraw support for Planned Parenthood citing its policy of not funding organizations under Congressional investigation. Congressman Cliff Stearns [...]
Three days after withdrawing funding for Planned Parenthood, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation reversed its decision and apologized, paving the way for approximately $600,000 in funding to pay for breast cancer screening and other routine examinations for lower-income women. Nancy G. Brinker, founder and CEO of the foundation said in a statement, [...]
