
November 20th is Transgender Day of Remembrance, and it's an opportunity for all of us to stand up to end violence against all women. Female identified people throughout the feminist movement have been pushing for equality, and have been breaking down the stereotypes of being women in our culture...

Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, delivered a petition today to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, calling on him to resist pressure from anti-choice groups to insert the extreme anti-choice Stupak-Pitts language into the Senate’s version of health-reform legislation. ...

The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) plans to air a newly created ad, on Washington DC-area cable stations, informing viewers about the effect of the Stupak Amendment; which would strip insurance coverage of abortion, even among women who already have coverage...

This week, the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have both released new information about the sad state of affairs in our country when it comes to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)...

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This article was originally published by the Women's Media Center, and is republished here with permission from the author. Democratic leaders have said that the turn-around on abortion contained in the House health-reform bill will not appear in the final version...

The Stupak amendment has prompted our well-deserved ire. But it also presents an opportunity for serious reflection about what abortion represents and how we represent it. We have often spoken the language of my: my child, my choice; keep your laws of my body; U.S. out of my uterus...

The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, DC has threatened to stop providing all social services within the District of Columbia unless the DC City Council abandons plans to pass a same-sex marriage law...

Was this weekend's health-care vote a showdown between powerful factions, a battle of spin and influence, a referendum on a new leader and a test of political capital...

This article first appeared in On The Issues Magazine and is reprinted here with permission from the editors. ...

The Stupak Amendment isn’t only about trampling on women’s rights and lives, as devastating as that is. It’s also about trampling on their faith and conscience. RCRC’s chief concern about this amendment is that it is encroaching on religious freedom. To be clear, the U.S. Confer...

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RHRealityCheck.org Senator Gillibrand speaks out today against the Stupak amendment on the House floor...
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Two days after the House passed a health reform bill Senator Gillibrand spoke on the House floor to raise awareness of the Stupak amendment, which would be the greatest restriction to abortion access in a generation.


















