On AlterNet: contraception
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The Progress ReportAugust 31, 2008.
Artful spin by McCain's campaign team has misled many voters about his rightist stance and awful record on reproductive rights.
Cristina Page, RH Reality Check. August 26, 2008.
The issue many candidates don't want voters to think about is not abortion, but contraception -- and the media hasn't called them on it.
Jill Hussein C., Brilliant at Breakfast AlterNet: PEEK. August 22, 2008.
Almost half of McCain's female supporters are pro-choice.
Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check. August 12, 2008.
Playing dumb can't hide the fact that a new regulation would seriously limit access to contraception.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. July 31, 2008.
Conservatives are proposing a federal rule that would go so far as to allow providers to deny rape victims emergency contraception.
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.
Cristina Page, RH Reality Check. July 16, 2008.
The Department of Health and Human Services is dismissing medical experts and instead using a definition of pregnancy based on polling data.
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.
Vanessa Valenti, AlterNet. June 16, 2008.
Most sexually active American women who do not want to become pregnant are using contraception. So why do we have so many unintended pregnancies?
Robert Engelman, Island Press. June 10, 2008.
The author of "More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want" writes that we can tackle a population-induced environmental crisis by empowering women.
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.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. May 22, 2008.
The controversial Bush appointee resigned as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Population Affairs.
Alexander Sanger, AlterNet. May 20, 2008.
Latin America needs comprehensive health care solutions, not minor uncontroversial changes.
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"?
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.
Pam Spaulding, Pandagon AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. February 28, 2008.
If a fertilized egg is a person vested with full rights and privileges, can post-coital women at least drive in the carpool lane?
Cristina Page, Huffington Post. February 26, 2008.
A look at his record on choice shows that John McCain is more extreme than many anti-choice voters.
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.
Peter Rothberg, The Nation. February 14, 2008.
"Safe Sex or No Sex" shirts are deemed inappropriate enough to merit suspension, but lying to teens in sex ed class is a billion-dollar industry.
Rep. Louise Slaughter, Huffington Post. January 24, 2008.
Americans want a plan to protect women's reproductive health while reducing unintended pregnancies. Rep. Louise Slaughter says she has one.
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.
Kara Alaimo, Women's eNews. October 26, 2007.
Attaching anti-abortion, anti-contraception policies to U.S. foreign aid goes against common sense and a host of data on international women's health.
Caryl Rivers, AlterNet. July 20, 2007.
The veil over the Bush administration's war on women's reproductive health was pulled back recently by the president's own former surgeon general.
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