On AlterNet: reproductive rights
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "reproductive rights"
Jill Filipovic, Feministe AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. November 24, 2009.
The current bill involves some quietly coercive (and racist) provisions that no one wants to mention.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 12, 2009.
As long as we're allowing people's personal beliefs about sexuality to get in the way of sane health care reform, why can't everyone get in on the act?
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. October 9, 2009.
Among the questions women will have to answer: Age of the mother, her marital status, highest year of education completed, and more.
Kathryn Joyce, Religion Dispatches. July 23, 2009.
Distrustful of experts, many Quiverfull followers are leaving childbirth to God. The recent death of a newborn, however, exposes a growing rift.
Dana Goldstein, The American Prospect. July 15, 2009.
Using the false threat of taxpayer-funded abortion, lobbyists are attempting to scuttle support for a public option.
Byard Duncan, AlterNet. July 8, 2009.
When I got the invite to a friend's abortion party, I thought it was a way to help her through a difficult decision. I was right and wrong.
Cecily Kellogg, RH Reality Check. July 6, 2009.
Will you or your daughter be so lucky?
Gillian Kane, AlterNet. June 17, 2009.
Around the world, antiabortion organizations use their political influence and dangerous rhetoric to punish and endanger women.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. June 8, 2009.
Scott Roeder said that there are more violent acts planned against abortion providers.
Marie Cocco, Truthdig. June 5, 2009.
The murder of Dr. George Tiller cannot be smoothed over with a speech.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. June 1, 2009.
Tiller was the target of vicious on-air attacks by Bill O'Reilly. Could the murderer have been inspired by O'Reilly's rants?
Agence France PresseMay 31, 2009.
The shooting came just two weeks after President Obama sought "common ground" on the abortion debate.
Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium AlterNet: PEEK. May 27, 2009.
Yesterday, Sonia Sotomayor became the first Latina and the third woman ever nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. But where does she stand on abortion?
Martha Burk, Huffington Post. May 18, 2009.
We need to know Obama is not afraid to say unequivocally that he supports the fundamental rights of his daughters and my granddaughters.
Lois Uttley, May 18, 2009.
Meet the newest defender of reproductive rights: Frank Luntz, a GOP strategist plotting to sink health care reform with lies about "patient's rights."
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. March 28, 2009.
Our readers had a lot to say about a recent article predicting the collapse of the evangelical movement.
Sharon Camp, Fatima Juarez, Guttmacher Institute. March 24, 2009.
Restricting abortion access does not make abortion less common -- it results in more women dying from clandestine and unsafe procedures.
Amie Newman, RH Reality Check. March 24, 2009.
The Court ruled that the FDA must make Plan B available without prescription to women aged 17 and older.
Barbara O'Brien, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. March 24, 2009.
Dr. George Tiller has been shot, his clinic bombed, and his practice targeted by a zealous attorney general. Today he's back in court.
Betsy Hartmann, AlterNet. March 14, 2009.
Raising alarms about overpopulation distracts us from the real environmental tasks at hand and legitimizes top-down punitive policies that hurt women.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. March 5, 2009.
This is probably the most repugnant thing you'll read in a while.
Kevin Sieff, Texas Observer. March 4, 2009.
Countless women are sexually assaulted as they attempt to immigrate into the US, but have extremely limited reproductive rights in custody.
Cara, AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. February 27, 2009.
The Obama administration is set to overturn a rule that allows health-care workers to deny abortion counseling or other family-planning services.
Cara, Feministe AlterNet: PEEK. February 19, 2009.
The North Dakota House passes a bill giving rights to fertilized eggs.
Jeanne Flavin, NYU Press. January 31, 2009.
"Fetal rights" turn women into little more than baby carriers rather than human beings.
