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The Truth Behind “Crisis Pregnancy Centers”
Adoption is often thought of as a good, politically-uncharged alternative for women who are pregnant, but feel that for whatever reason they cannot raise a child, and do not want to have an abortion. Think again. Kathryn Joyce at The Nation has an article entitled...
Women and Health Care Reform
President Barack Obama's speech to Congress Wednesday night addressing health care may have been a reminder to some of how the progress of the Obama Administration's "women-friendly initiatives," highly visible in the first six months of President Obama's presidency,...
Can Two Women Have Similar Jobs Without it Becoming a “Catfight?”
Last week brought the news that Diane Sawyer will replace Charles Gibson on ABC’s World News Tonight, making her the second woman to anchor one of the three major network nightly news shows. This New York Times article examines Ms. Sawyer’s ascension to the post and...
Plan B Access in Western Pennsylvania
In the summer of 2009, the interns and staff at the western Pennsylvania office of the Women’s Law Project replicated work that was done in 2007 to gauge the availability of emergency contraception (specifically, Plan B) in several counties in southwestern PA. Interns...
Marie Claire on Late-Term Abortion
This month, Marie Claire profiled two women who both had wanted pregnancies that went terribly wrong. Each woman was offered the possibility of having a late-term abortion; one did, one didn’t. The piece is a powerful testament to why that choice should always be in...
