Race and Class
Latina Women Are Watching
Women are Watching is Planned Parenthood Action Fund's 2012 campaign to educate women and men across the country about the unprecedented attacks on women's health and where candidates stand on pivotal health care issues, empower women to hold anti-women's health candidates of either party accountable, and work to elect pro-women's health candidates up and down the ballot. ¡Ojo! http://www.womenarewatching.org
Commemorating TODAY: National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Today (February 7th) is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. RH Reality Check joins Amplify Your Voice in raising awareness, and in encouraging everyone to take advantage of today to 1) get educated, 2) get tested and 3) get treated. Click here for more info, or visit the facebook page.
Screen More Women for Cervical Cancer — Not the Same Women More Often!
Problems with cervical cancer screening practices are a major contributor to more than 4,000 women per year dying of this 100% prevantable cancer.
Brownback, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, Attacks Single Mothers and the Poor
by Kari Ann Rinker, National Organization for Women (NOW), Kansas
January 30, 2012 - 1:40pm (Print)
Governor Brownback , like a wolf in sheep's clothing, speaks about goals such as reducing childhood poverty while passing laws that actually deepen poverty throughout the state.
The Sound of Silence: Where Is the Anti-Choice Outcry Over North Carolina's Forced Sterilization of Women of Color?
by Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check
January 25, 2012 - 7:21pm (Print)
From the early 1900s up until the 1970’s, over 30 states had formal eugenics programs, that enforced compulsory sterilization of individuals deemed to be “unfit” and “promiscuous.” States sterilized people that were disabled, poor, people of color, and immigrants. North Carolina had a particularly aggressive program. Yet the silence from anti-choice groups on the issue is deafening.
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The Role of Community Health Centers in Reducing Cervical Cancer Inequities
by Amelia MacIntyre, North American Management
January 23, 2012 - 9:11pm (Print)
Cervical cancer incidence rates vividly demonstrate inequities in our health care systems and in health outcomes. Women in rural areas, the elderly, those with less formal education, and women of color, for example, experience disproportionately high rates of cervical cancer. Meanwhile, in rural communities, uninsured white women have some of the poorest access to routine screening of any patient population.
If They Called It the “March for Forced Motherhood and Female Enslavement,” Then Would You Protest?
January 20, 2012 - 9:32am (Print)
Without a doubt, those marching against women's rights this year will be as giddy with success as they are fanatical about their agenda. If they owned up to the program they are really pushing, that they are marching for “Forced Motherhood and Female Enslavement,” would that be enough to drive you out in the streets to protest? Stand up for access to abortion and birth control at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC this Monday!
Cervical Cancer and Women of Color: What Will it Take to Get to Zero?
by Marisa Spalding, Black Women's Health Imperative
January 19, 2012 - 4:29pm (Print)
It is no secret that women of color—specifically Black and Latina women—are at greatest risk of cervical cancer. Ending cervical cancer will be no easy task. Great strides can be made by taking a multi-level approach to the problem, which includes expanding knowledge, empowering Black women to make their health a priority, and continued advocacy efforts.
Follow Marisa Spalding on Twitter, @MimiSpalding
Latinas and Cervical Cancer: The Fight for Greater Health Care Access
by Natalie Camastra, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
January 19, 2012 - 7:23am (Print)
No woman should be diagnosed, let alone die, of cervical cancer. For the first time, we have a comprehensive set of tools to prevent and fight the disease.
Race, Class and Justice in the U.S. Legal System: Still A Long Way From the Promised Land
by Marianne Møllmann, Amnesty International
January 16, 2012 - 7:47pm (Print)
Race, class, ethnicity, and sex still determine, to a great degree, how justice is dispensed and whether people are treated justly by the United States legal system. Recent news stories and hard data show just how far we remain from Martin Luther King's "promised land."
