On AlterNet: contraception
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "contraception"
Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise AlterNet: PEEK. September 25, 2009.
Get to it, folks -- innovation requires it.
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. September 24, 2009.
The one good thing about these extremists is that they help reveal the anti-woman, anti-sex agenda of the anti-choice movement.
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.
Yifat Susskind, RH Reality Check. September 14, 2009.
We can't just airdrop women's rights programs into embattled communities -- we must team up with all the women already helping themselves.
Cristina Page, AlterNet. July 31, 2009.
When it comes to contraception, anti-chociers are alienating their own kind.
Lynn Harris, AlterNet. June 26, 2009.
Intimate partner violence doesn't always show up in police photos as swollen bruises. Instead, the evidence might be the victim's pregnant belly.
Lon Newman, RH Reality Check. March 26, 2009.
The reproductive choices of most Americans have little to do with the aggressive politicking of conservative public officials.
Soumya Vemuganti, RH Reality Check. February 10, 2009.
Innovative scientists around the world are working to make male contraception a reality.
Mary Jane Gallagher, Robin Summers, National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. January 31, 2009.
Let's take a moment to clear up some of the myths the GOP perpetuated this week about the provision it lobbied so hard to destroy.
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. January 28, 2009.
Hostility to women perceived as "sexually loose" cripples efforts to protect women's rights and health.
Lindsay Beyerstein, RH Reality Check. January 27, 2009.
In an effort to court Republicans, Obama is trying to strip from the stimulus package a plan to extend birth control coverage under Medicaid.
Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast. January 8, 2009.
Team Obama likes to cite Warren's work on AIDS in Africa to combat criticism about the controversial pastor. But how does burning condoms save lives?
Lynn Paltrow, RH Reality Check AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. November 4, 2008.
Bottom line: Human rights attach at birth, not at conception.
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. October 21, 2008.
What Obama and McCain's positions on contraception and health services would mean for Americans.
AlterNetOctober 14, 2008.
Find out how the candidates compare on the 10 most important reproductive justice and gender issues, from abortion to equal pay.
Cecile Richards, Huffington Post. October 2, 2008.
Women voting for McCain-Palin is like chickens voting for Col. Sanders.
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 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?
