Lon Newman, Family Planning Health Services on March 25, 2008 - 9:53am
Spring break is a good time for anti-abortion advocates and supporters of comprehensive sex education alike to call for sexual responsibility. Perhaps we can agree to exercise responsibility in our advertising too -- then groups like Pro-Life Wisconsin wouldn't run false and misleading ads about emergency contraception.
Lon Newman, Family Planning Health Services on December 11, 2007 - 10:12am
Medicaid Family Planning Waivers save money by reducing more costly Medicaid-paid births by preventing unintended pregnancies, and Congress has an opportunity to improve the program.
Lon Newman, Family Planning Health Services on November 20, 2007 - 1:03pm
Family planning advocates continue promoting common sense prevention solutions to intentionally avoid unplanned pregnancies. You can help by writing your Congressman about important changes to birth control pricing on campuses nationwide.
Lon Newman, Family Planning Health Services on August 16, 2007 - 8:05am
Want to see the number of unintended pregnancies reduced? Here are four easy ways to ensure family planning wins when Congress reconciles House and Senate versions of the Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act.
Lon Newman, Family Planning Health Services on July 11, 2007 - 9:00am
It's time for Congress to act to repair the reproductive health safey net by passing two pending federal legislative proposals that have been low profile, but would be high impact.
Reducing maternal deaths from unsafe abortion is one of the most straight-forward public health problems to remedy. But this can never be fully realized unless governments start including abortion in realistic approaches to protecting women's health.
Heather Corinna brings Scarleteen's popular sexual health advice column to RH Reality Check! This week, Heather talks to a young woman who doesn't like being a girl.
Conservative activists are gearing up to enact state laws to restrict abortion. Colorado is once again serving as a political incubator in yet another attempt to chip away at Roe v. Wade, this time in the form of an amendment stating that life begins at conception.
Pregnancies, both planned and unplanned, happen to trans folks, too. It is imperative for reproductive health care providers to seek appropriate education and training in order to be able to provide comprehensive care to these patients.
Given the alarmingly sexist and racist undercurrents rearing their heads in this presidential election, it's not illogical to look at "Iron Man" and see a reflection, and perpetuation, of prejudices that just won't die.
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.
