Topic: Family Planning
A Mexican NGO Meets the Community Where It's At
The current sexual and reproductive health landscape in Mexico is one of both progress and challenges. It is one of divisions between rich and poor, between urban and rural populations, and between younger and older generations.
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Mamahood by Choice, Not Chance
This Mama’s Day, I encourage all women to stand up and say, "Mamahood by Choice!" Becoming a mama should always be a decision that a woman makes with her partner—and not because she doesn’t have access to family planning.
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Iowa Woman Takes On Rep Steve King Over His Planned Parenthood Attacks
April 9, 2012 - 8:09pm (Print)
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women Fails to Uphold Women’s Human Rights
by Alex Garita
March 22, 2012 - 10:00pm (Print)
This year marked the first time in history that the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women did not produced Agreed Conclusions. The most contentious issues, not surprisingly, were related to women’s access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care.
WI Senator Says Unplanned Pregnancies Are The ‘Woman’s Choice’
March 9, 2012 - 1:46pm (Print)
Radio host, Rush Limbaugh, seems to be monopolizing the ire of women these days now that less well-known misogynists are operating under the radar. Wisconsin Republican state Senator, Glenn Grothman, for example.
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Unintended Pregnancy Rates Linked to Proportion of Women Uninsured or on Medicaid
by Martha Kempner, RH Reality Check
February 7, 2012 - 11:09am (Print)
A new analysis from researchers at the Guttmacher Institute found that states' unintended pregnancy rates are related to the proportion of women in the state who are uninsured and receiving Medicaid.
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Maryland Law Expanding Medicaid Access to Women's Health Services Takes Effect
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
January 9, 2012 - 2:51pm (Print)
Maryland's Family Planning Works Act, which makes Medicaid-funded birth control, testing for sexually transmitted diseases, cancer screenings, and other essential services accessible to an additional 33,000 low- and moderate-income women in the states, went into effect today.
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Sex Sells Family Planning and Safer Sex: Why Aren't We Using It?
by Christopher Purdy, DKT International
December 16, 2011 - 10:48am (Print)
Use of erotic imagery to promote family planning (as opposed to HIV prevention) has been less the norm but this need not be the case.
The Message of Mississippi: Women are Not Full Human Beings
by Lorraine Berry, SUNY Cortland
November 8, 2011 - 12:29pm (Print)
I wonder if you can imagine what it feels like to be told, again and again, what it means to be a girl. You're not really a full human being: you're a sexualized baby-making organism who, once we are post-menopausal and no longer attractive, there really is no use for.
A Woman with a Plan: The Real Story of Margaret Sanger
by Ellen Chesler, The Roosevelt Institute
November 3, 2011 - 4:20pm (Print)
Her opponents have smeared her as a racist and classist, but Sanger devoted her life to fighting for equal access to reproductive choice.
