Eggs Are People Too! Eggs Are People Too!
Today's “right to life” rhetoric is a bizarre cross between the theological imperative to be fruitful and multiply and the fetishism of microbiological cellular promise...
Mar 21, 2012 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Forty Years Later, We’re Still Fighting ‘Eisenstadt v. Baird’ Forty Years Later, We’re Still Fighting ‘Eisenstadt v. Baird’
Rush Limbaugh's anti-contraception tirade targeted a single woman. Would he have had done the same if Sandra Fluke had been married?
Mar 20, 2012 / Jonathan D. Moreno and Frances Kissling
How Will Voters Respond to the War on Women? How Will Voters Respond to the War on Women?
Has President Obama stood strong enough on women's issues?
Mar 19, 2012 / Nation in the News / Press Room
Will Running to the Right Hurt Romney? Will Running to the Right Hurt Romney?
Pundits say Mitt has damaged his brand among women and Latinos. Not so fast.
Jeffrey Sachs: Population Controller? (VIDEO) Jeffrey Sachs: Population Controller? (VIDEO)
Jeff Sachs, who promises he’d lead the World Bank to a new era, proposes more of the same—plus population control. That’s taking us to a new era of Malthus.
Mar 16, 2012 / Blog / Laura Flanders
For Women’s Rights, Another Round of Defensive Victories For Women’s Rights, Another Round of Defensive Victories
Let’s use this moment not only to defend what we have but demand what we don’t.
Mar 15, 2012 / Blog / Emily Douglas
Workers and Reproductive Rights Under Attack in Arizona Workers and Reproductive Rights Under Attack in Arizona
A bill in Arizona would require women who want contraception coverage to prove that they are taking it for reasons other than pregnancy prevention.
Mar 15, 2012 / Nation in the News / Press Room
The Artificial Line Between Social and Economic Issues: Exhibit A, Andrew Cuomo The Artificial Line Between Social and Economic Issues: Exhibit A, Andrew Cuomo
Progressives can’t afford to focus on one side over the other.
Mar 15, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert
Why Employers Should Want Their Workers Using Contraception Why Employers Should Want Their Workers Using Contraception
Widespread use of the Pill for family planning purposes has allowed women to flood the workforce.
Mar 14, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert
Dreaming in French: On Angela Davis Dreaming in French: On Angela Davis
Angela Davis’s student years in France were an alchemy of discipline and distraction.
Mar 14, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Alice Kaplan