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,…
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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…
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…
Today, March 24th, The Boston Globe reported on the immediate negative impact that the health reform law and President Obama's executive order could have on Massachusetts' policy on abortion coverage in its state health insurance exchange. "The executive order Obama is scheduled to sign [today]…
Choice Matters stands with the Center for Reproductive Rights in being “deeply disappointment with President Obama’s decision to issue an executive order on abortion restrictions after the House of Representatives approves the healthcare bill. The order, intended to secure support from anti-choice Democrats for healthcare…
A Step Backward for Women's Health Care? by Maya Schenwar, Executive Director, truthout, 3/8/2010 Monday evening, after a rousing speech in Philadelphia pushing for health reform passage, President Obama will celebrate International Women's Day with a White House reception honoring women around the world for…