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For Low-Income Women, Lack of Coverage Leads to Anxiety, Unnecessary Delays in Terminating Pregnancies

By Elisabeth Sowecke, DC Abortion Fund, Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP)

July 22, 2009 - 7:00am

Low-income women--even many ostensibly covered by Medicaid--face numerous obstacles to obtaining early, safe abortion services, leading to higher costs and later abortions than need be the case. The DC Abortion Fund is struggling to close the gap.

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News & Commentary

1 Want Rights? Just Take Them

By Gloria Feldt on March 8, 2010 - 6:00am | 2 comments

Women need to start assuming equality at all levels as our perfect right, as boys and men are socialized to do from birth. And then we need to act.

Pregnancy-Related Death and Illness Among Adolescents & Young Women: A Preventable Tragedy

By Imane Khachani on March 8, 2010 - 7:00am | 0 comments

We urgently need to make adolescent girls and young women a priority in research, legal reforms, and funding. Only by doing so can our societies overcome the "indecent inequality" of maternal death.

Seeking Justice: Accountability for Sexual Violence

By Shonali Shome on March 8, 2010 - 7:00am | 0 comments

Today, as we honor women’s economic, political, and social advancements, the women of Zimbabwe are recovering from a brutal campaign of rape. We must hold the perpetrators accountable.

2 Utah Continues Reckless Efforts to Lock Up Pregnant Women

By Lynn Paltrow on March 7, 2010 - 9:30am | 0 comments

Comforted by the fact that the Utah legislature "revised" the bill on miscarriages? Don't be. Its main purpose is not to advance a "culture of life," but to advance laws that permit imprisonment of pregnant women.

What's the Typical Use-Effectiveness Rate of Abstinence?

By Heather Corinna on March 5, 2010 - 7:00am | 8 comments

That question probably either sounds like a really important one or a really stupid one, depending on your view. But I want the answer regardless, and am seriously tired of waiting for it. So I went ahead and asked it myself.

A Feminist Guide to the 2010 Oscars

By Sarah Seltzer on March 5, 2010 - 7:00am | 0 comments

The Academy Awards are often joked about as "our" [read: women's] Superbowl. I talked with Melissa Silverstein, editor of Women and Hollywood and guru for feminist film-buffs, about what feminists should be on the lookout for this Sunday.

3 Utah Bill Criminalizing Miscarriage To Be Resubmitted

By Rachel Larris on March 5, 2010 - 5:11pm | 2 comments

At the request of Utah's governor, a bill that would criminalize miscarriages is to be resubmitted to remove the standard for “recklessness.” The new version, however, would still set a dangerous precedent.

The Church and Gays: Can't Decide Whether to ""Love" 'Em" or Leave 'Em?"

By Jodi Jacobson on March 5, 2010 - 12:00pm | 9 comments

Could it be divine intervention? Just days after Catholic Charities cut off spousal benefits for DC employees to protect itself from the scourge of gay marriage, the Vatican is caught in a gay sex scandal.

U.S. Home Births Rise And It's Not Because of Ricki Lake

By Amie Newman on March 4, 2010 - 8:30pm | 9 comments

Home births rise in the United States deflating the current myth that women chose out-of-hospital birth for "frivolous, selfish, or trendy reasons."

4 Join Me On The Bridge: International Women's Day

By Zainab Salbi on March 5, 2010 - 12:40am | 0 comments

This International Women's Day remember the women in Rwanda and the DR of Congo - survivors of war and the sexual violence that so often accompanies war.

Young Women, Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion: Are We Achieving Global Goals?

By Maria de Bruyn on March 4, 2010 - 7:00am | 0 comments

Young women are the most vulnerable to maternal morbidity and mortality. A panel at the UN Commission on the Status of Women examines the reasons.

Loretta Ross On Anti-Choicers, the Media, and Race

By Cindy Cooper on March 4, 2010 - 7:00am | 5 comments

Loretta J. Ross is national coordinator of SisterSong Reproductive Justice Collective in Atlanta. So why is her voice largely missing in media reports about "black genocide" billboards in her own backyard?

5 The Right to Privacy and the Right to Speak Out

By Sarah Seltzer on March 4, 2010 - 7:00am | 1 comment

Feminists stand firm on never telling women what they should do, allowing them full choice about their bodies and lives. But we need to better support women when they speak about their experiences.

Nelson Restrictions Most Likely Outcome of Reconciliation Process

By Jodi Jacobson on March 3, 2010 - 12:00pm | 1 comment

Reconciliation to pass health reform will most likely result in adoption of the onerous "Nelson compromise" on abortion coverage, though Bart Stupak wants his own abortion ban.

Oklahoma Anti-Choice Legislators Waste Tax Payer Money Over and Over Again

By Amie Newman on March 3, 2010 - 5:25pm | 39 comments

Anti-choice legislators in Oklahoma are experts on at least two things: waste and distraction. And the state Supreme Court agrees.

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