Maternal Health
Marilyn Keefe, National Partnership for Women & Families on May 13, 2008 - 11:55am
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.
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The South Carolina Supreme Court yesterday overturned the 2001 conviction of Regina McKnight for the homicide by child abuse of her stillborn child.
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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.
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Remember Ralph Nader? The group he founded, Public Citizen, wants the patch taken off the market, claiming it's too dangerous for use.
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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?
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Mary Kane, New Journalist Fellow on May 12, 2008 - 8:22am
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.
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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.
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Anti-choice legislators in Britain are challenging the current 24-week abortion limit with blatantly unscientific claims.
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Is your Tupperware safe? The Washington Post examines the debate over the safety of common plastic products.
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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.
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