Dana Stone on a recent encroachment on women's rights in Oklahoma, the aftermath of the abstinence-only hearings, and more coverage of the march towards universal health care. Also, why you're a twit if you worry about Rachel Maddow's sexuality.
Feel like you're not the man you thought you could be? Your local megachurch has a solution: every woman deprived of her reproductive rights, every gay person deprived of the right to marry suddenly makes you look manly by comparison.
Amanda interviews the founders of a local branch of Law Students for Reproductive Justice, reviews an interview with sexual educators, and applauds Catholics for Choice. Also: How long will Marc Rudov be on TV?
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check on April 30, 2008 - 9:43am
Barack Obama's pandering on parental notification laws may never result in any legislation, but floating the idea that "even liberals" accept that it's desirable to force 12-year-olds to give birth against their will degrades the national discourse on abortion.
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check on April 28, 2008 - 12:04pm
Amanda is on vacation but here is one of our favorite episodes of RealityCast for your listening pleasure. She'll be back next Monday with a brand new episode for you! This episode, in which Amanda shoots straight on the Larry Craig debacle, takes on purity balls and covers the rise of the religious right in Texas originally aired on 9/10/07.
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check on April 21, 2008 - 9:52am
Yale art student Aliza Schvarts pulled off an astounding stunt -- she exploited the ambiguity anti-choicers created between menstruation and miscarriage to set off alarms all over Wingnut Nation.
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check on April 21, 2008 - 9:00am
Why voting matters for women, where the Democratic candidates stand on reproductive rights going into the primary, and how Marc Rudov is trolling to be fired. Also: men need translation?
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check on April 16, 2008 - 9:49am
Over-the-counter painkillers for urinary tract infections provide instant relief to thousands of women. But a recent study shows that an alarmingly high rate of women do not seek out proper medical attention and prescription medication after their painful symptoms are gone.
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check on April 14, 2008 - 9:40am
An interview with health activist Byllye Avery, a defense of the pregnant man, an examination of polygamous cults, and why Limbaugh probably doesn't even hear himself talk.
The Minnesota House last Wednesday passed a bill that would allow the University of Minnesota to use state funds to conduct research using embryonic stem cells. The measure prompted a flurry of amendments by anti-choice Republicans designed to derail the bill.
Last week, nearly 80 conservative groups led by the Family Research Council asked President Bush to strip family planning clinics of their eligibility for Title X funds if they refer patients for abortions or share facilities with abortion providers -- which would bring the global gag rule home.
In Colombia, young women may be getting pregnant intentionally -- but not necessarily because they want to become mothers. Sexuality education advocates differ on how best to tailor a pregnancy prevention and sexual health curriculum to reach Colombian teens.
On May 26, the Wanderlust reproductive justice bicycle caravan will set off on an 1800 mile journey from New Orleans to New York City, meeting with and learning from reproductive justice activists along the way.
In honor of the Back Up Your Birth Control with Emergency Contraception (EC) Campaign, Pharmacy Access Partnership and RH Reality Check teamed up to launch an essay contest open to young people 14-24 years of age. Read the winning entry!
Have Safe Haven laws -- in which women can lawfully relinquish their infants within 30 days of birth -- become a substitute for universal health care and comprehensive sexuality education?
Illinois's reproductive justice advocates are backing one of the most comprehensive reproductive health bills the state has ever seen. And they're bringing in new allies for the fight.
For the first time since international adoption began growing in popularity two decades ago, so many countries have either shut their doors to adoption, tightened their rules or increased domestic adoption that it's now far harder to adopt overseas.
Far too much is made of a mother's obligations to her children and far too little of a child's love for her mother. If fetuses could love, I think they would be as passionate in defense of their mothers as born children become.
The majority of women in prison are mothers of minor children, and women are the fastest-growing prison population in the country. We need to recognize and treat with compassion the humanity of these mothers.
Religious fundamentalists' fear isn't that feminism will lead all women to reject motherhood, but rather that in the capacity for choice, women challenge the notions that rationalize male domination embedded in traditional meanings of motherhood.
