by Lon Newman, Family Planning Health Services

February 9, 2012 - 9:23 am

Those of us who revere the constitution and the individual right to exercise freedom of religion enabled by the separation of church and state must stop the mass media procession that is now engaged in a responsive reading from the archbishop’s hymnal. These sounds you hear are not the chimes of freedom.

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

February 9, 2012 - 8:21 am

Religious freedom? Who’s zoomin’ who? As I noted in a piece published last night and now confirmed by further comments from representatives of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the far right uterine police are aiming to exclude everyone from contraceptive coverage, not just religious institutions.

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

February 8, 2012 - 10:04 pm

This week, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Obama campaign senior advisor David Axelrod signaled that the White House, having finally decided to include coverage of birth control as part of primary health care benefits under health reform after studying it for well over a year, is now “willing to compromise.” Many of my colleagues disagree with my take on the situation, but I am worried that in the end the White House may not hold firm.

by Annamarya Scaccia

February 8, 2012 - 4:17 pm

It seems that no reproductive justice victory can stand free of assault by the anti-choice set. On Monday, January 30, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla) introduced legislation that would overturn the Department of Health and Human Services mandate requiring religiously-affiliated organizations to provide free birth control with their employee health plan packages.

by Sandra Fluke, Georgetown University Law Students for Reproductive Justice

February 7, 2012 - 12:48 pm

Although Georgetown’s student health insurance doesn’t cover contraception, it does cover birth control pills when they’re prescribed for medical reasons other than preventing pregnancy. But barriers to access illustrate the consequences for women’s health when university administrators dictate which reasons for a birth control prescription are the “right” reasons.

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

January 18, 2012 - 1:17 pm

Two midwives in Glasgow claim being asked even to delegate duties to other practitioners constitutes “assisting” in an abortion.

by Kari Ann Rinker, Independent Activist

January 2, 2012 - 11:28 pm

Until a change of course is demanded in the state of Kansas, our elected oppressors will no doubt continue to spend their time, energy, resources and taxpayer money in the never-ending pursuit of being the first state to eliminate abortion and even some forms of contraception through the eradication of access, while saddling the taxpayers with an ideological debt.

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

December 5, 2011 - 10:59 am

As a result of the twelve nurses who refuse to provide any sort of service to patients obtaining abortions, the medical center will need to hire additional staff.

by Jessica Arons, Center for American Progress and Center for American Progress Action Fund

November 23, 2011 - 5:29 pm

A broad religious exemption for contraceptive coverage would go too far, depriving millions of women of an important health benefit. Instead of expanding exemptions, we should be expanding access to affordable care.

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

November 14, 2011 - 11:05 am

The fight over whether or not nurses were forced to participate in abortions against their will may mostly be a matter of semantics.