Video footage from National Nurses United rally on Capitol Hill, 5/12/2010.

An article explaining why Vermont’s and CA’s efforts for single payer aren’t going anywhere.

What if we stopped focusing on the number of abortions and instead focused on the women themselves?

Written by Aimee Thorne-Thomsen for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

A number of anti-choice groups have decided to target anti-choice Democrats who voted for health care reform, even though there’s no reality-based reason to think the law provides funding for abortion.

Written by Amanda Marcotte for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

On April 16^th, the CDC released new data about the rates of congenital syphilis (CS) and the trends are going totally in the wrong direction. Nearly 500 children were born in 2008 with a totally preventable life-threatening illness.

Written by William Smith for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

An excerpt from my April 7, 2010 post called, Was the Financial Meltdown Manufactured By Banks-Too-Big-To-Fail? Yes, many of us in the investment business were talking about the probability of scams and frauds due to CDO insurance long before the SEC made its move.

“We Are in a Progressive Era” Say Healthcare Activists
The question posed to national leaders of the healthcare reform campaign at a discussion in Santa Monica last night was “With healthcare legislation passed, what’s next?”

Compassion & Choices, the nation’s largest and oldest nonprofit organization working to improve care and expand choice at the end of life, today marked National Healthcare Decisions Day, releasing new language every American may consider to strengthen their advance directive. The new addendum, My Directive Regarding Healthcare Institutions Refusing to Honor my Healthcare Choices, is designed to protect patients in the event that they are an inpatient in an institution that will not honor their advance directive due to religious, moral or ethics policies. Individuals might find themselves in such an institution due to an unplanned emergency or because circumstances provide them no other choice.

We wanted reform. Instead, we got a loophole that may take away abortion coverage all together as states move to ban insurance coverage of abortion care.

Written by Robin Marty for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

An interview with David Waldman from Congress Matters about the legislative process and what lessons were learned fighting for health care reform.