Editor’s Note: Huffington Post’s Senior Politics Editor, Katy Hall, has a very provocative piece on “lies Republicans tell about Women’s bodies,” which she claims are either promoted by Republican lawmakers pushing for pro-life legislation and/or come from GOP presidential candidates and their spokespeople and surrogates. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) apologized Tuesday to Rep. Carolyn Maloney [...]
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 [...]
A Texas-based group called Liberal Ladies Who Lunch has launched a website, SexStrike.org, and Facebook page in support of health care coverage of contraception and is calling for women to withhold sex from their partners from April 28-May 5. The “ladies” have posted the following explanation on their website: “This will help people understand that [...]
Editor’s note: Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law student who testified before Congress on the need for access to affordable, quality reproductive health care, including contraception, and got swept into a national controversy when Rush Limbaugh referred to her as a “slut” and a “prostitute” has an OpEd today on CNN.com. Fluke says Limbaugh’s slurs [...]
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 [...]
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently overruled The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announcement that Plan B One-Step® would be permitted for sale “over-the-counter” — no prescription required — for all ages. Based on Sebelius’s decision, the emergency contraceptive that’s commonly referred to as the “morning-after pill” will remain available for girls [...]
