This amendment would have permanently banned federally funded abortion, and eliminated abortion coverage from most privately funded health plans — institutionalizing discrimination against women, and further restricting access to abortion services. The Senate moved to launch debate and ultimately vote… Read More
Read Breast Cancer Action’s fact sheet on breast cancer screening. Click here to read about the National Women’s Health Nework’s response. Read More
Link to ACOG Announcement about New Pap Smear Guidelines and Cancer Screening Guidelines. Read More
All of my menstrual extractions were positive experiences without noticeable physical side effects. Also, the fact that we used such a small sized cannula (4mm-5mm) meant that we did not do any extra dilation of the opening to the uterus. In turn, this meant that we did… Read More
First I want to tell you that when I was forty-four and my reading eyes weren’t what they used to be, I missed the tiny stamped expiration date on a birth control product that had been in my drawer for over ten years and, to my surprise,… Read More
The following speech was delivered by Carol Downer on October 24, 2007, to a gathering outside the Ahmanson Building protesting the appearance of Ann Coulter on the University of Southern California campus. Carol Downer is a member of the board of directors of… Read More
The Media calls the US presence in Iraq a “war”. It is not a war, it is an occupation. The War was over years ago. Remember the toppling of Saddam’s statue; President… Read More
Fake clinics, often named Crisis Pregnancy Clinics, Hope Clinic, Women’s Resource Clinics, are funded by right wing and Christian organizations in order to deceive women into coming into their doors. They promote themselves as medical facilites, but their sole purpose is… Read More
Strategies to induce or coerce certain social groups to have or not have children are as old as the notion of private property. Power relationships that rely on racial purity, eliminating the poor or quelling revolution seek ways of controlling or influencing who is born. … Read More
In the Carhart decision, the US Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a particular abortion procedure in April, 2007, handing abortion opponents the long-awaited victory they expected from a more conservative branch. Justice Kennedy’s opinion is filled with account after account of the… Read More