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Senator Vitter Proposes to Cut Family Planning Funding
Family planning clinics across the country are facing serious attacks by a proposed amendment to the appropriations bill currently being debated in the US Senate. The amendment, introduced by Senator David Vitter (R-LA), would drastically cut family planning funding...
Wage Gap Exists Across Occupations and Sectors
The New York Times printed a telling graphic on Sunday that helps us visualize the wage gap between men and women. The graph shows how much less women make per occupation, and also overall. Economists claim that discrimination against women in the workplace and...
Pittsburgh Public Schools Adopt Comprehensive Sex Education
Good news for Pittsburgh Public Schools! Last week, the Pittsburgh public school board voted in favor of adopting a comprehensive sex education curriculum to replace the current abstinence-only program. Community members, parents, and students have been calling for...
President Obama Nominates Pro-Choice Secretary of Health and Human Services
President Obama announced on Saturday his selection of Democratic Governor Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Governor Sebelius has been an ally of President Obama ever since endorsing him early in the campaign. She is Obama's...
Reducing Unplanned Pregnancies in the U.S.
Last weekend, the New York Times published an op-ed piece by William Saletan on bridging the divide between liberals and conservatives on the issue of unplanned pregnancy, contraception and abortion. He argues that conservatives oppose contraception and legal abortion...
Rihanna, Chris Brown, and Domestic Violence
Over the past few weeks, the domestic violence charges filed against Chris Brown have been covered in the media. On Feb. 8, 2009, Mr. Brown was accused of assaulting a woman in an argument. The Los Angeles Police Department later revealed that the woman was his...
New Report on Family Planning Funding Reveals Importance of Federal Spending
The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) recently issued a report on public policy for federal funding of contraceptives and family planning services. The study analyzes the impact of funding on family planning and contraception availability in the United States, and...
Anti-Discrimination Bill Passed in North Dakota
On the heels of a step backwards in North Dakota regarding reproductive rights, which we blogged about here, the state legislature seems to be taking a step forward in terms of anti-discrimination legislation. The North Dakota Senate approved a bill that would expand...
Hope for Civil Unions in Hawaii (and the rest of America)
According to the Associated Press, Hawaii is the closest it has ever been to legalizing civil unions. Just over 10 years ago, Hawaii was the first state to adopt the nation's first "defense of marriage" constitutional amendment, which granted the state legislature the...
North Dakota and Arkansas Legislatures Approve Bills Restricting Reproductive Rights
A bill passed in the North Dakota House of Representatives on Monday defines fertilized eggs as human beings possessing the same rights as an adult. The bill, HB 1572 (PDF), defines a human being as "any organism, including the single-cell human embryo, irrespective...
