by Verónica Bayetti Flores, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health

September 17, 2012 - 1:52 pm

If we are truly committed to communities of color, it is imperative that reproductive health and justice communities work to expand access to health care for low-income people. 

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

August 7, 2012 - 7:57 am

A new ad from the Obama campaign reiterates Romney’s position against helping women access contraception.

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

May 31, 2012 - 1:57 pm

The so-called Prenatal Non-Discrimination Act, sponsored by Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), today failed to get the two-thirds vote it would have needed to pass under House rules for passing legislation under suspension. The vote was 246-168.

by Andy Kopsa

May 31, 2012 - 12:10 pm

The co-launch of the new Lila Rose “exposé” on “gendercide” at Planned Parenthood and the vote on the so-called Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act came forth in perfect harmony – one buoying and leveraging the other. PRENDA was scheduled for a vote yesterday, however was rolled over to today.

by Sneha Barot

May 31, 2012 - 8:27 am

An entrenched social preference for sons should be addressed by countering social and cultural bias against women, not by eroding their health and rights.

by Anat Shenker-Osorio

and Sujatha Jesudason, CoreAlign Initiative - UC San Fransisco

May 30, 2012 - 7:52 am

Anti-choicers are now riding a wave of sex selection politics, finding new reasons to limit access to abortion in their quest control women’s autonomy, specifically to curtail reproductive decision-making for women of color. But these policies only make matters worse.

by Miriam Yeung, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum

May 29, 2012 - 7:07 am

The sponsors of H.R. 3541are using the guise of “ending discrimination against female babies,” which sounds like a good cause, in order to ban abortion for the very people it pretends to protect: Asian American women. We recognize that this is simply a particularly demeaning way for anti-choice legislators to limit abortion access.

by Leslie Kantor, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

and Dr. Carolyn Westhoff, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

April 23, 2012 - 3:09 pm

In recent weeks people who oppose Planned Parenthood and our mission to provide high-quality reproductive health care, have been conducting a secret, nationwide hoax campaign in an attempt to undermine women’s access to services. Now they are focused on spreading falsehoods about sex selection.

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

June 24, 2011 - 7:46 pm

In an important victory for women in Indiana and elsewhere, a federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction halting enforcement of an Indiana law barring Planned Parenthood Indiana from participating in the state’s Medicaid program.

by Allie Carter, ACLU of Illinois

August 17, 2010 - 5:40 pm

Every place we visited in Illinois -from Rockford to Carbondale, and from the Quad Cities to Champaign-Urbana – revealed that people in Illinois face numerous obstacles in accessing reproductive health services and information.