The Silver Ribbon Trust Women Campaign, a coalition of 42 local and national pro-choice organizations, has declared January 20-27 Trust Women Week to celebrate and commemorate the 39th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The Silver Ribbon Campaign this year has organized a virtual online march in partnership with moveon.org to organize the pro-choice community around […]
Final results of the first post-revolutionary parliament elections in Egypt confirm that women have won one percent of the parliamentary seats. The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party won 47% of the seats and the conservative Salafist Nour Party won 25% of the seats, according to the Washington Post. Individuals won one third of the […]
This afternoon, US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Obama administration released their decision not to broaden the exemption for birth control without copay. In August, HHS ruled that a host of women’s preventive health care services – including all FDA approved contraceptive methods – will be covered under […]
Events have been scheduled around the country to commemorate the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. For those living near the nation’s capital, please join the Feminist Majority Foundation for several events in the next few days. Virtual March, January 20-27, 2012 NARAL’s Blog for Choice, January 22, 2012 World Can’t Wait Celebration Dinner and […]
2011 brought an unprecedented assault by anti-abortion and anti-contraception state legislatures on women’s reproductive health—135 reproductive rights laws were enacted in 36 states, 68 percent of which restrict access to abortion. Reproductive-rights groups are fighting back with a simple but powerful pro-choice message: Trust women. The Silver Ribbon Campaign to Trust Women, a coalition of 42 […]
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services announced today the Obama Administration will not broaden the religious exemption for contraceptive coverage under the Preventive Care package of the Affordable Care Act. This request, primarily by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, would have denied millions of American women contraceptive coverage, including students, teachers, nurses, […]
Operation Rescue, an extremist anti-abortion group, has launched a website – abortiondocs.org – which lists the photographs and addresses of abortion providers, as well as maps to find their places of business. The website, which describes itself as the “largest collection of documents on America’s abortion cartel,” aims to list every abortion provider in the […]
Yesterday, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul via webcast spoke at a forum in South Carolina, hosted by Personhood USA, to discuss birth control, abortion, and the personhood amendments, which may appear on many state ballots. Mitt Romney did not attend the forum due to a prior commitment. Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, […]
Operation Rescue, an extremist anti-abortion group, has launched a website – abortiondocs.org – which lists the photographs and addresses of abortion providers, as well as maps to find their places of business. The website, which describes itself as the “largest collection of documents on America’s abortion cartel,” aims to list every abortion provider in the […]
Four bills have been introduced in the Virginia General Assembly that, if passed, would require that women seeking abortions first undergo an ultrasound. NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia said in a statement, “Virginia women should have the option of an ultrasound if they request it or if their doctor recommends it. Politicians should not be allowed to […]
Twenty-five Members of the Kansas House of Representatives announced that they will co-sponsor a personhood amendment in the state. The amendment requires two-thirds vote of both the Kansas House and Senate, and if passed, it would grant full individual rights to fertilized eggs. Personhood amendments threaten emergency contraception, birth control pills, IUDs, and abortions – […]
After San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimia was charged with three misdemeanors resulting from his alleged spousal abuse, the <i>San Francisco Gate</i> released an article indicating that law enforcement officials physically abuse their wives and female partners twice as frequently as civilians. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that incidents of domestic violence occur […]
According to the Washington Post, Randall Terry, the founder of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, will be campaigning for president in order to take advantage of a Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) Communications Act that allows candidates to run even graphic campaign ads in the 45 days prior to the primary election in the state. Terry’s […]
In Florida and Montana anti-abortion initiatives or referenda will appear on state ballots in 2012. In nine additional states, initiatives or referenda to restrict women’s reproductive rights may appear on the 2012 November ballot. Initiatives and Referenda that Will Appear on State Ballots Montana-A parental notification initiative, requiring that the parents of a minor be […]
Two years since the earthquake in Haiti, UN Women and UNFPA Haiti, in collaboration with the Ministry for Women Conditions and Women’s Rights (MCFDF), have worked work to improve conditions for women, who still face rapes and gender-based violence at an alarming rate. To help address this problem for the over 500,000 people still residing […]
The Ohio Ballot Board approved the language purposed by anti-abortion rights groups for a personhood amendment, which proposes to give constitutional rights to a fertilized egg. The petitioners must now collect 385,245 signatures from 44 of Ohio’s 88 counties in order for the initiative to appear on the state’s November ballot. If the personhood initiative […]
On Tuesday, a three judge panel of the Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to uphold a Texas law requiring that doctors describe ultrasounds in detail and play the sound of the fetal heartbeat, if a heartbeat is present, to women seeking abortions. In doing so, the Fifth Circuit overturned Federal District Court Judge […]
The Ohio Ballot Board approved the language purposed by anti-abortion rights groups for a personhood amendment, which proposes to give constitutional rights to a fertilized egg. The petitioners must now collect 385,245 signatures from 44 of Ohio’s 88 counties in order for the initiative to appear on the state’s November ballot. If the personhood initiative […]
Florida Representative Scott Plakon (R) introduced a bill, called the Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination and Equal Opportunity for Life Act, to prohibit women from seeking abortions “based on sex or race of child or race of parent of that child.” The bill also specifies that abortion providers who perform an abortion […]
US District Court Judge Karen Scheier ruled to allow two South Dakota crisis pregnancy centers, the Alpha Center and the Black Hills Crisis Pregnancy Center, to intervene in a case regarding a state law requiring that women undergo a 72 hour waiting period and mandatory counseling from a crisis pregnancy center (CPC) before obtaining an […]
