Stories by Allison Stevens
Women are making record campaign contributions, so why are campaign agendas still mute on child care, birth control and domestic violence?
Posted on Apr 9, 2008
In the GOP field McCain, Huckabee and Thompson are battling for the staunch anti-abortion vote in South Carolina's pivotal Jan. 19 primary.
Posted on Jan 14, 2008
Women's health advocates want to reach bipartisan compromises on reproductive health bills before the 2008 presidential election polarizes Congress.
Posted on Dec 7, 2007
A new movement seeks to award special certificates to fetuses that are stillborn, but pro-choice advocates worry that this is yet another step toward fetal personhood that could endanger abortion rights.
Posted on Jul 31, 2007
Some Georgia legislators want their state constitution to recognize embryos and fetuses as persons from the moment of conception. It's a sign of a widening strategic divide within the anti-choice movement.
Posted on Jun 12, 2007
Women could stand to gain substantially from a law that would expand hate crime definitions to include gender, sexual orientation and disability. But will the legislation stand a chance?
Posted on May 18, 2007
A new bill being drafted by Sen. Biden would create a network of 100,000 legal volunteers to work on behalf of domestic violence victims.
Posted on Jan 15, 2007
The Hyde Amendment has prevented federal funding of abortion services to low-income women for three decades. Now that its namesake has left Congress, pro-choicers are campaigning to dismantle it.
Posted on Jan 10, 2007
With Nancy Pelosi as the presumptive next House speaker, another woman Senator elected and at least another four Democratic women elected to the House, this was an election women can be proud of.
Posted on Nov 8, 2006
Four female veterans running for Congress are challenging stereotypes about women being weak on foreign policy.
Posted on Aug 7, 2006
To pro-choicers' dismay, the Senate has approved a bill prohibiting anyone from taking a minor over state lines to avoid parental notification laws. What's next?
Posted on Jul 27, 2006
Politically active women's groups are already attacking Hillary Clinton for supporting the Iraq war and backing an anti-choice Senate candidate.
Posted on Jun 27, 2006
In the first abortion case before the Supreme Court, we get a glimpse at how our new chief justice might restrict abortion.
Posted on Dec 2, 2005
Uncertainty about how Harriet Miers might vote on cases that challenge abortion rights has given those on both sides of the issue cause for concern.
Posted on Oct 11, 2005
Women's rights activists have been loudly protesting John Roberts' nomination for Supreme Court Justice -- but political observers say the conservative judge is likely to be confirmed.
Posted on Jul 22, 2005
More than a million demonstrators turned out for Sunday's March for Women's Lives, making it a historic day for reproductive rights.
Posted on Apr 25, 2004
