Liz Langley, AlterNet. November 10, 2009. Wanting kids isn't just the social norm, it's said to be a biological imperative, the only supposed "duh" of evolution. But yet, some of us choose not to -- and for good reason.
Robin Marty, RH Reality Check AlterNet: PEEK. October 13, 2009. According to some companies, costs should stay manageable as long as you make "healthy lifestyle choices." So much for having kids...
Elizabeth G. Hines, Women's Media Center. September 16, 2009. Gays and lesbians remain separate and utterly unequal in the eyes of the law when it comes to obtaining health insurance for their families.
Elizabeth Westley, Francine Coeytaux, Elisa Wells, RH Reality Check. August 27, 2009. EC helps women meet the significant challenge of how to avoid unplanned pregnancies over their lengthy fertile years. Why is it being attacked?
Ryan Blitstein, Miller-McCune.com. July 11, 2009. The stress of living in a white-dominated society makes African Americans get sick and die younger than their white counterparts.
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.
Jill Filipovic, Feministe AlterNet: PEEK. June 23, 2009. For all the focus on telling women to never ever drink or smoke because of the babies, there’s no similar admonishment made of men.
Wendy Atterberry, The Frisky. April 14, 2009. Average penis size? The rate of erectile dysfunction? Friends with benefits? Here is a list of facts and stats you may or may not know about sex.
Jodi Jacobson, RH Reality Check. January 6, 2009. Bristol Palin may be way ahead of her mom when it comes to one of the country's most controversial issues.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. September 1, 2008. In 1972, Tom Eagleton was the Democratic VP nominee for 18 days when another private drama became public.
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.
Miriam Pérez, RH Reality Check. July 15, 2008. The media give the impression women opt for c-sections for the sake of convenience. In fact, the procedure is often pushed by doctors.
Molly M. Ginty, Women's eNews. June 26, 2008. Increasing numbers of infertile people have been using surrogacy to have children, but a tougher economy is pushing it further out of reach.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. April 8, 2008. Thomas Beatie is not the first transgendered man to get pregnant. So why is he getting so much attention, and why now?
Bean, Lawyers, Guns and Money AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 28, 2008. The rise in pregnancy discrimination is further evidence of how little our society values women as equal citizens.
Thomas Beatie, The Advocate. March 23, 2008. My decision to bear a child as a transgender male has been met with discrimination and outright derision by health care professionals.
Jill Filipovic, Feministe AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. March 14, 2008. I'm not sure that we want to turn reproduction into a service industry.
Richard Blair, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: PEEK. February 13, 2008. The Catholic Church would rather have a single mother become unemployed than either have an abortion or a job to provide for her child.
Cara Kulwicki, The Curvature AlterNet: PEEK. February 8, 2008. Informing parents of a student's pregnancy is bad policy for pregnant women and for families -- but it's standard anti-choice politicking.
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. February 7, 2008. The days of illegal abortion were ugly, but many clandestine abortion providers were competent, caring professionals who believed in justice.
