Contraception
Planned Parenthood Has A Widget For You
By Rachel Larris, RH Reality Check
February 25, 2010 - 9:37am
Interested in figuring out the right birth control method for you? Wondering if you should be tested for an STI? Need to know where the closest Planned Parenthood clinic is located? Planned Parenthood now has three widgets that can be added to a blog or webpage.
Colorado Maternity Care Mandate Raises Pro-choice Hackles
By Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check
February 25, 2010 - 9:00am
A seemingly feel-good bill to require insurance plans to cover maternity care and contraception in Colorado is fraught with problems that could have been solved by long-delayed federal legislation.
Worried About Women of Color? Thanks, But No Thanks, Anti-Choicers. We've Got It Covered.
By Miriam Pérez, radicaldoula.com, feministing.com
February 24, 2010 - 8:00am
The anti-choice movement uses false concern about women of color in a classic effort to divide-and-conquer. Reproductive justice advocates say thanks but no thanks...we've got it covered.
Medicaid Should Stop Paying for Viagra
Reader diary posted by Lauren Martin
February 23, 2010 - 3:03pm
Surrogacy: The Next Frontier for Reproductive Justice
By Miriam Pérez, radicaldoula.com, feministing.com
February 23, 2010 - 8:00am
Surrogacy is a complicated subject, to say the least. It involves many of the issues central to reproductive justice—bodily autonomy, a woman’s right to abortion, definitions of parenthood, and custody of children. It’s also an option increasingly relied upon by gay couples—usually gay men—to create families. It invariably brings up concerns about racial and economic justice when the majority of surrogates are low-income and many are women of color. It’s an issue on which few reproductive rights and justice groups are working on but one that deserves our close attention.
Black Abortion: Breaking the Silence
February 22, 2010 - 8:00am
Stigma prevents many African American women from discussing sex and pregnancy. But we need to speak out. Our foremothers fought anti-choicers, and we must as well or end up burying women who, in desperation, turn to back- alley abortions.
Stop Perpetuating Myths About Black Women and Abortion
By Kelley Robinson, Planned Parenthood Heartland
February 18, 2010 - 8:00am
A reproductive justice advocate responds to an op-ed in the Des Moines Register repeating anti-choice myths regarding African-American women and their reproductive choices.
Women of Color and the Anti-Choice Focus on Eugenics
By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check
February 12, 2010 - 8:00am
Women of color are not children unable to make decisions and our children are not "on the brink of extinction" through an organized genocidal plot.
Ireland: You Can Force Women to Be Mothers, But You Can't Force Men to Be Fathers
By Jodi Jacobson, Editor, RH Reality Check
March 18, 2010 - 2:55pm
A case in Ireland underscores the ways in which law and policy are used to manipulate women's reproductive and sexual rights, and the "personhood" status of embryos.
Bart Stupak: I Don't Listen To Nuns
By Jodi Jacobson, Editor, RH Reality Check
March 18, 2010 - 9:22am
In two interviews yesterday, Bart Stupak revealed a great deal about himself, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, politics and the internal workings of our "pro-choice" Democratic party. First, in what shouldn't be surprising to anyone, Stupak told Fox News that he "doesn't listen to nuns."



























