Reproductive Rights

Do Republicans Think They Can Win Without Women? Do Republicans Think They Can Win Without Women?

If they believe that in exercising control over women's reproductive functions, they will also control women's voices, they are wrong.

Mar 28, 2012 / Editorial / Carol Gilligan

Reproductive Rights and the Long Hand of Slave Breeding Reproductive Rights and the Long Hand of Slave Breeding

The pursuit of reproductive freedom and civil freedom need to be seen as one and the same.

Mar 21, 2012 / JoAnn Wypijewski

Dear Pro-Choice Women of Means

Dear Pro-Choice Women of Means Dear Pro-Choice Women of Means

Here’s why you should make a major gift to an abortion fund.

Mar 21, 2012 / Column / Katha Pollitt

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’ 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

Will Running to the Right Hurt Romney?

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. 

Mar 18, 2012 / Blog / Ben Adler

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

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