Opponents and supporters of women’s choices in childbearing agreed early on, in theory, to maintain the “status quo” with “abortion neutral” health care legislation. The Senate bill achieves this goal; the House bill does not.
Rep. Diana DeGette releases a statement on the Senate bill’s exclusion of the anti-choice Stupak Amendment language and her vision for moving forward with health care reform.
Mike Lillis explains why at least one Senator thinks it is critical to include a public option in the bill that ultimately comes to the Senate floor for a vote.
As part of health care reform, Democrats vow to ban the practice of denying health insurance coverage to victims of domestic violence.
Reports of the death of the public option were greatly exaggerated. In fact, Democrats now have a chance to move further to the left. Also, can reproductive choice help reverse climate change?
Health care reform needs to result in affordable health insurance options, the death of the public option is highly exaggerated, teens acknowledge the National Sex-Ed Week of Action and the birth control pill known as Yaz is being criticized for its safety.
A male senator decides maternity care doesn’t need to be covered under insurance plans because he doesn’t need it and is reminded by a woman that, well, his mother may have needed it, huh? The health care reform process is uncovering why just being a woman seems to be a pre-existing condition for insurance companies.
By a vote of 68 to 31, the Senate has confirmed Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.
Caroline Kennedy, Andrew Cuomo, Rep. Carolyn Maloney — for the voters of New York, who’s the most pro-choice of them all?
Looking at the presidential candidates’ Senate votes is a great resource for pro-choice voters looking to weigh each candidate’s actions against his rhetoric before casting their ballot in November.
