Jodi L. Jacobson, RH Reality Check. November 23, 2011.
As early as this weekend, Obama may cave to demands by Catholic bishops that they not be required to cover contraception under health-care plans for women employees.
Kimberley Seals Allers, Women's eNews. February 23, 2011.
America's racist legacy plays out every day in high maternal mortality and infant mortality rates and poor birth outcomes in black women across all socioeconomic levels.
Suffering women will try anything to combat severe nausea during pregnancy--including marijuana. But drug laws and anti-abortion policies endanger their choices.
Eliminating punishment for corporations means no suits for putting drugs on the market that kill people, selling E coli-laced hamburgers, or pouring toxic waste into groundwater.
Danielle Ivory, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. March 26, 2010.
Heather Galeotti lay in a coma for nearly six months before her health insurer, Kaiser Permanente, informed her family that it would not cover $4 million in medical bills.
Douglas Rivlin, NewsJunkiePost.com. March 20, 2010.
The complicated relationship between the forces fighting for immigration reform and the labor movement have been on display this week and will be on display this weekend.
Marcelo Ballve, New America Media. March 19, 2010.
Tens of thousands of immigrants and their allies from around the country - an estimated 10,000 from the New York area - will converge this Sunday on the National Mall in DC.
Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium. February 17, 2010.
The Senate Democrats have already passed their bill, and their only remaining task would be to pass a "fix" through budget reconciliation to make changes.
Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. December 15, 2009.
There is overwhelming disappointment at Obama's attempts for bipartisan health reform. But the good news is there's a glimmer of hope for the election of true progressives in 2010.
Harry Reid may have gotten the Senate to move his health-care bill forward, but a handful of conservative Democrats could still keep the bill from getting a final vote.
