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.
James Wagoner, Advocates for Youth on April 30, 2008 - 9:45am
The time has come for the Democrats to correct course and stop government funding of ineffective abstinence-only programs. How can congressional leaders continue to ignore the public health consensus about science-based programs?
Both the members of Congress and the lone public health researcher who spoke in support of abstinence-only at the recent Congressional hearing were scrambling for evidence.
Matthew Blake, New Journalist Fellow on April 29, 2008 - 9:42am
A congressional hearing Wednesday by the House oversight committee that promised to "assess the evidence" on abstinence-only demonstrated that social conservatives still shape the public debate on sexuality education.
Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood Federation of America on April 25, 2008 - 9:55am
On Wednesday, for the first time, a Congressional committee heard public health experts and young people testify about the effects of abstinence-only programs.
Max Siegel, AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth and Families on April 24, 2008 - 9:40am
Max Siegel is 23 years old and has been living with HIV since he was diagnosed at 17. His life was forever changed as a result of abstinence only education, and yesterday he testified at the first ever Congressional oversight hearing on abstinence-only.
Senator Henry Waxman tomorrow convenes the first-ever Congressional hearings on abstinence-only education. Read an excerpt from Dr. John Santelli's testimony.
I know it's considered only politically correct to be generous to sexual abstainers, and I am, so long as they're humble about their choices. But the holier-than-thou abstainers get no sympathy from me.
Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check on March 27, 2008 - 9:44am
The very act of gaining knowledge can give girls a huge boost in self-esteem. But in order to enable them to gain knowledge, we first have to trust them. "In Treatment"'s character Sophie is one of television's few complex teenage girls.
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.
Anti-choice groups Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America and others are petitioning President Bush to restrict funding for our most successful family planning program ever.
