Many obstacles cause physicians to exclude abortion from their practices. These hurdles add to the ongoing stigma of abortion providers, and threaten the accessibility of women’s health care. Read article. Read More
Barbara Ehrenreich, in her blog post in December 2009, took on the “pink ribbon culture” and calls for unbiased research, not funded by drug companies. Read blog post… Read More
I had the right to make that decision and I expect my fellow Americans to completely support that right, even if they disagree with my decision. I furthermore demand that my elected officials and law enforcement agencies protect my right to make my decision… Read More
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Read about Barbara Seaman, founder of the National Women’s Health Network and author of The Doctor’s Case Against the Pill. In “The pill: 50 years of birth control changed women’s lives”, USA Today, author Rita Rubin explores how the pill was not a panacea for women’s liberation. Read More
“Addressing these issues also means challenging the peculiar brand of American capitalist individualism that continually shifts the burden for economic, social and environmental breakdown from powerful corporations and militarism onto the shoulders of individuals, especially poor people of color.”Click here to read article… … Read More
Good history of the Pill and how it has helped – and hurt – women. Read article… … Read More
While Gorney, in her article, “The Estrogen Dilemma”‘ acknowledges that women are confronted with a health dilemma when faced with the decision about taking hormones at menopause because of the link to heart attacks, strokes, and breast cancer, she brings up the potential for preventative use for depression and alzheimer’s disease. The… Read More
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Loretta Ross, SisterSong’s national coordinator, comments on the attack on black women: “They tell African American women that we are now responsible for the genocide of our own people … We are now accused of ‘lynching’ our children in our wombs and practicing white supremacy on ourselves… Read More