science
Why Are Science and Evidence Routinely Ignored When it Comes to the Rights and Health of Pregnant Women?

by Lynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women
and Farah Diaz-Tello, National Advocates for Pregnant Women
January 19, 2012 - 7:17am (Print)
Why is it, we wonder, that when it comes to decisions regarding women and pregnancy, science is so often ignored?
What's At Stake in How HHS Handles the IOM Report?
by Carole Joffe, University of California
July 28, 2011 - 7:26pm (Print)
What’s at stake in the HHS decision around the IOM recommendations on contraception? First, the health and rights of women who will benefit from easier access to contraception. And second, the IOM’s action draws attention to the extent to which contraception has become yet another front in the nation’s unending culture war.
Virulent New Wave of Anti-Women, Anti-Abortion Attacks
From the “guerrilla activists” trying to take down Planned Parenthood to the state and federal legislators (from both parties) further restricting women’s access to abortion, 2011 has seen more assaults on women’s most fundamental rights yet – even more even under the Bush years. There are 3 anti-abortion federal bills and more than 200 state level bills restricting access to abortion (and cutting funds for birth control, cancer screenings and other basic care for women into the attacks for good measure). Many of the state-level bills pose fundamental challenges to Roe v. Wade, paving the way for Supreme Court challenges down the line. What we need is an outpouring of resistance to this assault on the humanity of women!
America's Women: Still Waiting for the President to Restore Science to Its "Rightful Place"
by Kirsten Moore and Dr. Susan Wood
March 23, 2010 - 12:30pm (Print)
In his inaugural address, President Obama declared his administration would “restore science to its rightful place.” American women are still waiting.
Hyde, HPV, and Her Lady Business
by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
January 24, 2010 - 11:26pm (Print)
Follow Amanda Marcotte on Twitter, @amandamarcotte
Guttmacher Celebrates 40 Years of Bringing Science and Research to Reproductive Health
by Sharon Camp, Guttmacher Institute
October 22, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)
War on Contraception and Science Going Strong
by Susan Wood, ThePumpHandle.wordpress.com
July 18, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)
The Woo Factor
by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
March 26, 2008 - 8:51am (Print)
Skeptics enjoy debunking people's delusions. They like to expose psychics, show up ghost hunters, and question people who believe they were abducted by aliens. What they don't take on are the woo-based claims made by the anti-choice movement.
Follow Amanda Marcotte on Twitter, @amandamarcotte
Plan B: Politics Over Science
by Belle Taylor-McGhee, Pacific Institute for Women’s Health (PIWH)
August 23, 2007 - 6:30am (Print)
The FDA's foot-dragging over non-prescription approval for Plan B set a disturbing precedent of putting politics over science.

