US Rep Carolyn B. Maloney Joins Engel and Krueger In PUBLICALLY Standing Up for Us, the Women of New York and of the U.S.A. Maloney's Letter Condemning Abortion Restrictions for High Risk Pools Dear President Obama: I am deeply concerned by your recent decision to…
REP. ENGEL - HIGH RISK POOL ABORTION EXCLUSION IS UNACCEPTABLE Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY-17) strongly disagreed with the decision to exclude abortion coverage from the new high-risk insurance pools. In effect, the policy decision will adversely affect middle class women, especially those with serious medical…
Thursday the Obama Administration shocked women's health organizations everywhere when it announced it would exclude abortion coverage from the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (the temporary high-risk insurance pools created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to transition us into the new health care…
On Sunday, July 18th, at 4:30, Donna Barkman is performing Hand-Me-Downs: Scenes from a Life. Barkman, a natural-born rebel, reviews her life, integrating the anger of Antigone and the nonsense of Mother Goose, as she dramatizes constrictive gender roles and prescriptive motherhood. Tickets are $10.00,…
You called and you signed our petition, and they listened! Please thank our local Assembly representatives who stood up for women today: Assemblyman Richard Brodsky Assemblywoman Sandra Galef Assemblywoman Amy Paulin Assemblyman Gary Pretlow Now we must turn our attention to the NYS Senate! WITH…
In the New York Times Today: About 370 state bills regulating abortion were introduced in 2010, compared with about 350 in each of the previous five years, and 250 a year in the early 1990s, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports…
All MEN are created equal. I never quite felt that that noun was inclusive. If it were, I would no longer have to fight, in the year 2004, to have birth control pills covered by health insurance plans while Viagra is a given, and its…
There is little question that the new health care law which erodes abortion rights has triggered a torrent of radical anti-choice legislation. Mary Alice Carr of the National Institute for Reproductive Health explains more about the Oklahoma legislation that protects doctors who withhold information from…
The Oklahoma Legislature voted overwhelmingly to override vetoes of two highly restrictive abortion measures. One of the measures protects doctors from malpractice suits if they decide not to inform the parents of a unborn baby that the fetus has birth defects. The intent of the…
From CNN: A pregnant 10-year-old, allegedly raped by her stepfather, has become the latest lightning rod in the country's heated abortion debate. The girl's stepfather has been arrested. But advocates on both sides of the issue say their battle is just beginning. Abortion is legal…
