I want to be happy that the
House passed its version of Health Care Reform. Really. I believe so
strongly about making health care a right not a privilege.

My tax dollars pay for military action I do not support, and
anti-abortion people refuse to allow premiums paid by individual women to go
toward abortion coverage within their health plan. Why is my concern for life
less valid?

My reaction to the passing of the Stupak-Amendment is emotional as I reflect on the impact this amendment could have if put into law.

We need a peaceful, purposeful, stubborn and obstinate revolution.   

An Illinois state court issued an emergency order yesterday blocking a law that prevents teens from having an abortion unless they notify a parent or go to court.

The starlet acknowledges the broad problem of domestic abuse.

Quite the contentious issue, the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act has never been enacted due to a court injunction -- until now. The law, scheduled to go into effect yesterday, now remains in political limbo pending a lawsuit and considerations from a regulation department.

This morning President Obama announced the end of travel restrictions that have long prevented HIV positive foreign nationals from entering the United States.

Sex workers movements offer some concrete suggestions for how to celebrate diversity

The recent decision by the Delhi High Court to repeal Penal Code 377
has been by far the single greatest event that has happened in my
lifetime.

Pink ribbons, walkathons, commercials. Breast cancer month is coming to an end and, as a breast cancer survivor, I know all too well that the importance of early detection cannot be stressed enough.

New Activist Resource Kit demystifies conservative opposition to reproductive justice.

Republicans and Democrats who are farting around health care reform
and making a stink about abortion, aren’t concerned about stopping
abortion. They are using women’s lives and women’s bodies to preserve a
broken health care system that they and many of their friends reap huge
profits from.

The Chicago City Council recently passed an ordinance establishing a buffer zone outside all medical facilities to protect health care workers, volunteers, and patients from harassment and obstruction.

NAPW has selected the winners of its first law student writing contest on the topic of challenging denial of vaginal delivery to women with a prior cesarean surgery.

Since abstinence is all that young adolescents and adults are sometimes exposed to, they lack the education that prepares them against the adverse effects of sexual intercourse, including STD’s and unintended pregnancy.

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Health reform must be separated from the issue of abortion