Rachel Joy Larris is Communications Manager at the Women's Media Center, where she oversees the Name It. Change It. project. She is the former Communications Director of American Forum and Project Director of the National Women's Editorial Forum. She previously worked as an editor and blogger for TomPaine.com.
If we don’t paint abortion in positive terms does the reproductive rights community lose the semantic war on abortion?
The Kansas House fell short in trying to override Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson’s veto of bill that effected late-term abortions.
Florida resumes debate on ultrasound bill, which could get vetoed by the newly made “non-Republican” Gov. Crist. Newsweek goes for “round two” over pro-choice activists.
South Carolina anti-choice legislators can’t seem to get together for a bill to add a 24-hour waiting period while the Georgia House Speaker doesn’t seem to be onboard with the Georgia Right to Life’s goal for a constitutional challenge to Roe v Wade.
The Center for Reproductive Rights has filed a lawsuit against the newly passed Oklahoma requirement that a women seeking an abortion must have ultrasound and listen while her doctor describes the image in detail, irrespective of her wishes.
The Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Act of 2010 would integrate and greatly improve how the U.S. handles its international family planning and reproductive health programs.
The Louisiana House passes a bill that will ban all insurance coverage of abortions while Virginia passes amendment that potentially removes insurance coverage of abortion for state workers and outlaws abortion procedures in a state-run hospitals.
Talk about cognitive dissonance! When a 10-year-old is raped in Mexico to the anti-choice media outlets it’s the feminist groups who are trying to control her choice.
Today, our colleagues at Womens eNews published a story following up on the law recently passed in Utah criminalizing “intentional miscarriage.”
Virginia state legislators will likely be voting tomorrow on a budget amendment proposed by Governor Bob McDonnell which would ban the use of Medicaid funding for abortion services in the cases of severe fetal abnormality or for the health of the woman.
