Fighting Mississippi's frightening fetal personhood law will require an intersectional campaign that also works against those trying to deny people of color the vote.
Russia's anti-choice campaign touting the protection of "life" is a smoke screen for State/Church philosophies insuring power and control over women's bodies.
After being finished with having kids, the author and her husband found themselves back in a tricky position regarding birth control methods: none of their options appealed.
The war on contraception and general sexual health care is just heating up, and liberals best be prepared for more battles over contraception access and funding in the future.
Reproductive coercion involves a complex interplay of violence, mental abuse, pregnancy and sexual assault -- fortunately, simple front-line intervention can make a difference.
Within seven years of its introduction 12.5 million women across the world were taking the pill. Forty years later, it was 100 million. It changed our world forever.
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."
