Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check on March 20, 2008 - 9:40am
Until Americans, and our media, stop insisting that our male leaders be a manly and upright family fellow with a docile wife who gazes at him adoringly, we shouldn't be surprised when that spouse remains devoted in the face of infidelity.
Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow on December 31, 2007 - 10:11am
It's caucus week and with just three days to go Iowa phones are ringing off the hook and GOP front-runners Romney and Huckabee continue to trade barbs.
Masimba Biriwasha, RH Reality Check, Africa & Asia on December 7, 2007 - 10:25am
Genuine political will to fight the epidemic at all levels, along with an allocation of resources that are consistently monitored and accounted for, is critical to an effective AIDS response.
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a new initiative last week, which is aimed at discouraging women from getting abortions by providing them with new sets of government support.
Carole Joffe, University of California on August 6, 2007 - 9:31am
Republican Senators Orrin Hatch and Chuck Grassley have "implored" George Bush not to follow through with his promised veto of the expansion of SCHIP, the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
Eesha Pandit, RH Reality Check on August 6, 2007 - 9:00am
Let the battle for "Most Outrageous Piece of Legislation" begin! A group of Ohio state legislators have submitted a bill that would ban women from obtaining abortions without consent from the man who impregnated her.
Dana Goldstein, RH Reality Check on July 30, 2007 - 3:54pm
Dana Goldstein responds to a commenter who chided her for caring about the distinctions between the presidential candidates on reproductive health. Is our enemy politicization?
Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow on July 27, 2007 - 9:00am
Veteran journalist Helen Thomas is worried about what she describes as the current "chipping away" of individual rights by the Bush administration and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Andrea Lynch, RH Reality Check on July 25, 2007 - 8:50am
There's been a whole lot of press over the past few weeks about James D. Holsinger, the Kentucky physician who President Bush nominated in May to serve as the next U.S. Surgeon General.
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.
After more than a hundred years of legally allowing women access to a therapeutic abortion, in October 2006 the Nicaraguan National Assembly banned this procedure in all circumstances. Now women's health groups are working to mitigate the damage.
If we changed society's attitudes and policies around mothering and child care, we could give a gift not just to our own moms but to all mothers this Mother's Day.
In her new book, Opting In, feminist activist and author Amy Richards explores feminist mothering. Laura Barcella talked to her in San Francisco about her newest "baby."
Feel like you're not the man you thought you could be? Your local megachurch has a solution: every woman deprived of her reproductive rights, every gay person deprived of the right to marry suddenly makes you look manly by comparison.
In India, there are laws to prevent dowry, domestic violence, sexual harassment and child marriage. But in the country's social context, these laws aren't very effective.
Just thirty-five Senators in office are strongly pro-choice. But this November, when a third of the Senate seats will be up for grabs, voters have a chance to increase that score.
