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.
Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check on May 12, 2008 - 8:24am
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?
Emily Douglas, RH Reality Check on February 21, 2008 - 11:47pm
The second one-on-one debate meeting for Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton was sharper in tone than before, drawing out some substantive differences between the candidates on health care and foreign policy.
Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check on February 21, 2008 - 9:48am
The promise of universal health care coverage appears to be within America's grasp. But health care reform must address barriers to access beyond coverage to be truly universal.
Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow on December 26, 2007 - 3:48pm
The countdown to Iowa begins. With eight days until the Iowa caucus, candidates are scrambling to make the biggest splash but are Iowans already worn out?
Amie Newman, RH Reality Check on December 5, 2007 - 10:19am
Governor Blunt of Missouri is called out for his anti-choice task force in the face of a new ballot initiative in his state that seeks to criminalize abortion and health care providers.
Carolina Austria, RH Reality Check, Asia on November 12, 2007 - 9:17am
In the context of increasingly privatized health care within a public health care system and alongside policy scripts fueling "tax cuts," who is accountable and responsible for public health in Canada?
Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check on October 17, 2007 - 1:25pm
Clinton, in the midst of her 'Women's Week," proposed an expansion of the Family Medical Leave Act, while Dodd was on the Hill testifying to extend the bill to injured veterans.
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check on October 10, 2007 - 8:49am
The well-worn objections to universal health care have been thoroughly trounced, but they keep persisting long past their welcome, much like "The Macarena" or the media attention paid to Paris Hilton. Amanda rounds up and skewers some favorites.
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.
