Eesha is a contributing writer at Feministing and the Crunk Feminist Collective. Recently, she's served as the Women’s Rights Manager at Breakthrough and as Director of Advocacy at MergerWatch, where she worked on the Raising Women’s Voices project. Eesha has also worked as Associate Director of Programs at the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program (CLPP) and has been a weekly staff writer for RH Reality Check. She has also worked with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University and Amnesty International USA’s Women’s Rights Program. She currently serves on the board of the New York Abortion Access Fund and the National Network of Abortion Funds. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and the University of Chicago.
Last week, President Bush vetoed a proposal that would extend the State Children's Health Insurance Program, demonstrating the administration's cavalier attitude toward the many families who earn above poverty levels but are still unable to cover their children.
It’s time to set the record straight about some of the myths spread by conservative activists who masquerade their contempt for women as concern for fetal rights.
The website Marry Our Daughter may have been a hoax, but it resonated strongly enough to reveal entrenched cultural attitudes about women and girls.
The New Jersey State Supreme Court rules unanimously against a plaintiff’s claim that her physician ought to have told her that her abortion would end a human life.
Recent studies from Maryland, North Carolina, and Alabama shed light on racial infant and maternal health disparities.
We should not let our disgust for the hypocrisy or lawbreaking be interpreted as disgust for the sexual expression.
Amnesty International recognizes that women’s rights are human rights despite intense pressure from those who deny women their right to make private health decisions.
The reproductive justice movement needs to pay attention to the recent attacks on immigrant transgender women of color.
This year’s Supreme Court decision on late term abortions adversely impacts women’s health but some are advocating doctors assume more risk in the face of a bad ruling.
A group of Ohio state legislators have submitted a bill that would ban women from obtaining abortions without consent from the man who impregnated her.
