by Tracy Weitz, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH)

March 1, 2013 - 8:57 am

In the heated debate around trans-vaginal ultrasounds, there is too little focus on what is really wrong with these laws.

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

January 2, 2013 - 11:30 am

It’s been a decade, and Republicans still won’t quit when it comes to proposing a mandatory ultrasound bill.

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

May 2, 2012 - 12:30 pm

Romney and Corbett both want power, for themselves. And they are willing to demean women to get it.

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

March 29, 2012 - 7:15 am

With two conflicting lower court rulings, we are very likely to see our first new challenge to Roe V. Wade approach the Supreme Court.

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

March 22, 2012 - 8:52 pm

Oh, hey!  Look what made it through the agricultural committee this time!

by SharonMD

March 22, 2012 - 12:28 pm

Should physicians engage in civil disobedience to protect their patients from over-reaching state legislatures?  It’s a provocative suggestion made in a popular blog earlier this week.

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

March 21, 2012 - 8:39 am

A new poll out today from Quinnipiac University reveals that Virginia voters are not happy with the recently signed forced ultrasound law, and their confidence in and approval of both Governor Bob McDonnell and the state legislature has declined.

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

March 18, 2012 - 12:11 pm

The Idaho Senate may vote as early as Monday, May 19th on a forced ultrasound bill despite the fact that its original author admitted he had no idea exactly what sort of ultrasound he was mandating, nor how women would pay for them. Opposition is building against it.

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

March 12, 2012 - 12:33 pm

What does it say about the state of our society when so many state legislators seem to make the passage of laws de-humanizing women their main priority, but newspapers are afraid of running comic strips satirizing these laws? Garry Trudeau, the brilliant political cartoonist, has produced a series on forced trans-vaginal sonogram laws in Texas, but papers in a number of the states with similar laws are not running it.

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

March 8, 2012 - 7:32 am

How unpopular are ultrasound bills becoming?  Legislators don’t even want to say the word anymore.