On AlterNet: birth control
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "birth control"
Anna Clark, RH Reality Check. November 20, 2009.
Historically, the burden of family planning has almost always fallen on women. Isn't it about time for that to change?
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. September 19, 2009.
The greenest technology available to us may not be solar panels, but instead contraception, according to a new report.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. September 14, 2009.
The "Personhood Amendment" would define someone as a "person," regardless of age or health status, "from the beginning of the biological development of that human being."
Matt Leonard, Earth Island Journal. June 10, 2009.
"Any child I had would have been raised here and would consume (despite my best efforts) far more resources than I am comfortable accepting."
Marie Cocco, Truthdig. March 27, 2009.
Political operatives and ideological helpmates of George W. Bush broke the law to keep birth control away from women -- particularly teenagers.
Amanda Hess, RH Reality Check. December 26, 2008.
Most professionals need an acceptable excuse to miss work. Pharmacists can refuse to do their jobs for any reason.
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. October 21, 2008.
What Obama and McCain's positions on contraception and health services would mean for Americans.
Hillary Clinton, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. July 27, 2008.
New rules pose a serious threat to birth-control providers and uninsured and low-income Americans seeking care.
Katha Pollitt, TheNation.com. July 22, 2008.
He's voted against contraception for more than 20 years, and yet doesn't even care or know enough to explain why.
Matt Corley, Think Progress AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. July 10, 2008.
Candidate can't keep his votes straight.
Tala Dowlatshahi, American News Project AlterNet: Video. July 4, 2008.
Teen pregnancy is on the rise in America for the first time since 1991.
Cristina Page, RH Reality Check. June 25, 2008.
It's pro-choice policies that result in dramatic declines in the need for abortion, and it's the pro-choice candidates who truly value life.
Cynthia L. Cooper, Marjorie Signer, The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. June 9, 2008.
Christian medical groups have started a major campaign to demand that physicians be permitted to refuse medical care to patients.
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. May 24, 2008.
We're lucky to have the Pill, but a wider variety of contraceptive options would do womankind good.
Cristina Page, RH Reality Check. May 6, 2008.
Birth control is the best way to lower the abortion rate. So why are anti-choicers rallying against it and claiming that "the pill kills babies"?
Katha Pollitt, The Nation. April 26, 2008.
When it comes to keeping women in their place, polygamous Mormon fundamentalists and the Pope have a lot in common.
Kathryn Joyce, RH Reality Check. April 24, 2008.
The Catholic church's anti-contraception stance continues to harm women around the world, even while the majority of Catholics reject it.
Allison Stevens, Women's eNews. April 9, 2008.
Women are making record campaign contributions, so why are campaign agendas still mute on child care, birth control and domestic violence?
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. February 20, 2008.
Men need more birth control options, not negative assumptions and ugly stereotypes.
Kathryn Joyce, The Nation. February 19, 2008.
Conservatives predict a catastrophe as white birthrates in the "West" fall. Their solution? Take away women's rights and compel reproduction.
Brian Nguyen, RH Reality Check. February 18, 2008.
Men are deeply affected by pregnancy-related decisions, and should advocate for wider reproductive freedoms.
Eliza Krigman, Campus Progress. January 22, 2008.
Colorado’s ballot initiative, led by 20 year-old Kristi Burton, could do much more than overturn Roe v. Wade this fall.
Jesse Wendel, Group News Blog AlterNet: PEEK. December 20, 2007.
The red states have a vastly higher teen pregnancy rate than the blue. It isn't an accident.
Allison Stevens, Women's eNews. December 7, 2007.
Women's health advocates want to reach bipartisan compromises on reproductive health bills before the 2008 presidential election polarizes Congress.
Amanda Terkel, AlterNet: PEEK. October 17, 2007.
Amanda Terkel: Susan Orr was a senior director at the conservative Family Research Council and a professor at Pat Robertson's Regent University.
