Report: States Pass Staggering Array of Anti-Choice Laws, Policies and Ballot Measures

By: Friday September 3, 2010 6:43 am

A new report from the Center for Reproductive Rights reviews the losses of women’s rights throughout the states in the aftermath of health reform.

Written by Amie Newman for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Weekly Pulse: Kagan Hearings: Gags, God, Guns, and Gays

By: Wednesday June 30, 2010 12:36 pm

Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings kicked off on Monday. Her nomination has been met by glum resignation on the left and indifference on the right, as Adam Serwer notes in the American Prospect. Kagan is hoping to replace the Supreme Court’s most prominent liberal, Justice John Paul Stevens, who stepped down earlier this week. Progressives are counting on Kagan to shore up the pro-choice faction on the court.

Weekly Pulse: The Pill at 50 and Oklahoma’s Extreme Ultrasound Law

By: Wednesday April 28, 2010 8:51 am

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger

Fifty years ago, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first birth control pill. Needless to say, the repercussions of this medical and public policy breakthrough are still being felt today.

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