Women's rights
When anti-abortion forces came to Laney College to spread their misinformation, students organized a protest.
March 15, 2010
: Rachel Cohen A new campaign focusing on the "crisis" of Black women's abortions is just the latest attempt to control the reproductive choices of women of color.
March 12, 2010
: Elizabeth Schulte If Utah legislators get their way, pregnant women could be arrested for having a miscarriage--or anything perceived as a threat to the fetus.
March 2, 2010
Pro-choice activists gathered to counter the 200 anti-abortion fanatics who protested the opening of a Planned Parenthood clinic.
February 18, 2010
A display by University of Washington's "Students for Life" tried to convince people that abortions were harmful to women's health.
February 17, 2010
The case of Samantha Burton illustrates a dangerous legal precedent in denying women basic human freedoms during pregnancy and childbirth.
February 9, 2010
Bay Area supporters of abortion rights mobilized a counter-protest against anti-abortionists' "Walk for Life."
January 29, 2010
Forty activists turned out in support of abortion rights at a rally in Chicago on January 22, in recognition of the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
January 28, 2010
: Elizabeth Schulte The period before the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion provides lessons about how to shift the debate.
January 22, 2010
: Rachel Cohen The fact that self-induced abortions are on the rise because of increasing restrictions shows why women's lives depend on access to safe, legal abortions.
January 15, 2010
: Jessica Hansen-Weaver It's come to the point where we hear more about the "rights" of unborn fetuses than the rights of living women to control whether they have children.
January 12, 2010
A film shown on HBO documents a horrific story of domestic abuse endured by Wendy Maldonado and her four sons for 18 years.
January 8, 2010
Around 40 people protested in Amherst, Mass. to highlight what so-called "pregnancy help centers" really are: anti-woman centers.
December 9, 2009
Pro-choice activists organized local protests December 2 to tell the Senate not to include the anti-abortion Stupak Amendment in health care legislation.
December 4, 2009
If we want truly equal access for a woman's right to choose, we need to fight for abortion services as part of a publicly funded health care system.
November 20, 2009
: Elizabeth Schulte The Stupak Amendment added to the House health care bill is the latest in a long history of the Democratic Party's betrayals of women's rights.
November 20, 2009
: Elizabeth Schulte A study on female 'happiness' is being used to fuel claims--once again--that the women's movement of the 1960s and '70s made life worse for women.
October 27, 2009
Conservative lawmakers are latching onto abortion access as a new wedge to drive health care reform even further away from providing care to all.
October 1, 2009
: Jen Roesch So-called "crisis pregnancy centers" prey on women looking for options--in order to bully and terrorize them against having an abortion.
September 30, 2009
: Nicole Colson Tucker Max is making a career off "jokes" that demean women--but his comedy is one more reflection of a society where sexism is pervasive.
September 30, 2009
Supporters of women's right to choose are organizing to defend clinics that are the target of the anti-abortion campaign 40 Days for Life.
September 28, 2009
: Hannah Wolfe A group of right-wing fanatics have targeted a South Bronx clinic that provides abortions, but pro-choice forces are mobilizing to oppose them.
September 22, 2009
: Cindy Klumb A battle over women's access to abortion services is raging in Kentucky--and supporters of women's right to choose are organizing to fight back.
August 25, 2009
: Sarah Wilhelm The reality of abortion access today increasingly depends upon a woman's socioeconomic status and geographic location.
July 6, 2009
: Nicole Colson The murder of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller has exposed the ugly truth about the fanatical opponents of a woman's right to choose.
June 8, 2009
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