Women’s Rights

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

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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.


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Working Mothers are Healthier, But Must Pay the Mommy Tax in the Meantime

Reader diary posted by GWMCHstudents, gwmchstudents@gmail.com

February 23, 2010 - 9:06pm

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Research is showing that working mothers who are doing it all and having it all may actually be healthier.

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Medicaid Should Stop Paying for Viagra

Reader diary posted by Lauren Martin

February 23, 2010 - 3:03pm

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Conservatives don't want to pay for abortions? Well, I don't want to pay for erections.


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The Third Shift: Employment, Housework, and Now Informal Healthcare

Reader diary posted by GWMCHstudents, gwmchstudents@gmail.com

February 23, 2010 - 1:20pm

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While many women continue to struggle with striking the delicate balance between family household responsibilities and paid employment, an additional shift is taken on by many women, too: informal healthcare providers.

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Surrogacy: The Next Frontier for Reproductive Justice

By Miriam Pérez, radicaldoula.com, feministing.com

February 23, 2010 - 8:00am

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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.


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Black Abortion: Breaking the Silence

By Maame-Mensima Horne

February 22, 2010 - 8:00am

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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.


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Stop Perpetuating Myths About Black Women and Abortion

By Kelley Robinson, Planned Parenthood Heartland

February 18, 2010 - 8:00am

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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.


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Women of Color and the Anti-Choice Focus on Eugenics

By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

February 12, 2010 - 8:00am

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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.


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Victory for Domestic Workers is a Victory for Women, Immigrants

By Jodi Jacobson, Editor-in-Chief, RH Reality Check

September 8, 2010 - 8:44am

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New York Governor David Paterson signs into law a bill protecting the rights of domestic workers--the child-care givers and housekeepers that enable U.S. citizens to enjoy a higher standard of living, but who have few or no rights under U.S. law.  Advocates hailed the new law, the first in the nation, as a first step.


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Remembering Cy Romney: The Lifetime of a Pioneer Supporter of Reproductive Rights

By Jodi Magee

September 8, 2010 - 7:00am

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Cy Romney was a prominent Ob/Gyn, founder of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, and a leader in the fight to legalize abortion. His death challenges all of us to keep fighting for what he believed in—every pregnancy a wanted pregnancy.


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