Women's Issues
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No-Cost Birth Control Under Attack for Some Students
Catholic professors push for harmful expansion of “conscience clause.”
Posted Tuesday, September 20, 2011 in Reporting by Emily Crockett
Biden to Students: ‘No Means No, No Matter What’
In a new video, the vice-president called on high school and college students to help bring an end to violence against young women.
Posted Tuesday, September 13, 2011 in Reporting by Emily Wood
Fight for Gender Equality Continues with New HERvotes Campaign
The effort, to encourage women to protect their health and economic rights by showing up at the polling booths, kicked off this week.
Posted Friday, August 26, 2011 in Reporting by Emily Wood
Review: The Help Trades Historical Accuracy for a Cheery Story
The summer blockbuster neglects a number of important historical aspects from the Jim Crow South.
Posted Monday, August 15, 2011 in Reviews by Dahlia Grossman-Heinze
Violence Against Women Act Up for Reauthorization
New changes will help protect Native women against domestic abuse and sexual assault.
Posted Thursday, August 4, 2011 in Reporting by Dahlia Grossman-Heinze
Free Birth Control Under Affordable Care Act
Insurers will offer a range of preventative women’s health services under the new regulations.
Posted Monday, August 1, 2011 in Reporting by Jon Christian
Military Reproductive Rights Bill Moving Forward
With sexual assault in the military at near epidemic proportions, the government begins trying to give military women their basic reproductive rights.
Posted Tuesday, July 5, 2011 by Dahlia Grossman-Heinze
Kansas Closes All But One Abortion Provider
A legal medical procedure is now nearly impossible to get in the state.
Posted Friday, July 1, 2011 in Reporting by Dahlia Grossman-Heinze
Supreme Court Rules Women of Wal-Mart Are Not a Class
According to Justice Scalia, no policy of discrimination equals no discrimination.
Posted Monday, June 27, 2011 by Dahlia Grossman-Heinze
Pennsylvania Sexual Assault Conviction Overturned by Superior Court Panel
D.A. concerned “a sexual assault victim is not to be believed unless her injuries are severe enough to meet some Stone Age standard of proof of resistance.”
Posted Wednesday, June 15, 2011 by Dahlia Grossman-Heinze
What It Really Takes to Get an Abortion
Legal abortion means very little to many people when extreme barriers to access stand in their way.
Posted Tuesday, June 14, 2011 by Shani Hilton
Anti-Choice Campaign Now Targeting Latinas
More racist rhetoric on why women of color shouldn’t be allowed to make reproductive decisions.
Posted Monday, June 13, 2011 by Dahlia Grossman-Heinze
Cartoon: How Corporations Are Exactly Like People
Posted Monday, June 6, 2011 in Cartoons by August Pollak
VIDEO: Who Are the Women Having Abortions?
Fighting the lies about abortion care with facts.
Posted Tuesday, May 3, 2011 in Video / Multimedia by Shani Hilton
