public funding for abortion
By Dr. Pratima Gupta, Physicians for Reproductive Health and Choice August 28, 2009 - 7:00am
I refuse to let the anti-health reform demonstrators represent me or my patients. As an ob/gyn, I can say unequivocally that our country needs health care reform now, and it must provide comprehensive reproductive health care to all.
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On a conference call in honor of Women's Equality Day, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Melody Barnes and Tina Tchen were repeatedly pressed on reproductive health care coverage under health care reform.
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TIME examines government's role in facilitating abortion access in health care reform proposals; medication abortion has not expanded access as expected; Australian provider refuses to prescribe RU-486 until legal protections are enacted.
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By Erin Kate Ryan, National Network of Abortion Funds
Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund August 20, 2009 - 7:00am
All proposals to address the abortion funding question have one thing in common: they blithely disregard the effect of such proposals on the actual women and families who choose abortion.
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By Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood Federation of America August 19, 2009 - 7:00am
Does anyone else see the irony in the U.S. bishops wanting to define universal health care as covering everything except for what they don't support?
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A public health option without abortion coverage does not sound like neutrality to me -- it sounds like selling out women for political expediency, again.
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The president and his staff have been reluctant to take on reproductive rights in health reform. But that has not prevented anti-choicers from using the issue to activate their base against reform.
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Two religious organizations have called on the Family Research Council to shut down a television ad and Web site that contain “massive misinformation” related to the national discussion on health care reform.
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The White House's proposed budget condones a two-tier health system, in which women with private health insurance or private funds can exercise their right to an abortion, but poor women cannot.
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