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Videos Discuss N.Y. Reproductive Health Bill, HIV Research
The following summarizes selected women's health related videos. NARAL N.Y. Pressures State Sens.: NARAL Pro-Choice New York President Kelli Conlin appeared on NY 1 to discuss why the group refuses to endorse any incumbent state senators until the chamber acts on the Reproductive Health Act (A 11484, S 5808), which would codify the protections of Roe v. Wade in New York...
Conservative Women's Groups Step Up Campaign Involvement, Politico Reports
In an effort to counter "influential Democratic-oriented women's groups" such as EMILY's List, at least three separate conservative women's groups are "plowing cash" into the campaigns of female candidates, Politico reports. According to Politico, the Susan B...
Documents From Clinton Era Portray Kagan As Pragmatic Strategist On Issues Like Abortion, Contraception
The National Archives released 46,700 pages of documents Friday from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's tenure as a policy adviser and legal counsel in the Clinton administration that reveal "a woman who ... was trying to balance competing policy objectives and chart a centrist course" on issues ranging from abortion to embryonic stem cell research, the New York Times reports...
Despite Ban, Abortion 'Alarmingly' Common In Brazil, Time Reports
Brazil has the world's highest proportion of Catholic residents and prohibits abortion in nearly all cases, but one in five Brazilian women of childbearing age has terminated a pregnancy, according to a recent government-funded study, Time reports...
Blogs Comment On Anniversary Of Tiller's Death, Ultrasound Laws, Other Topics
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "In Memory of Dr. George Tiller," Alexa Kolbi-Molinas/Talcott Camp, American Civil Liberties Union's "Blog of Rights": Although Scott Roeder -- the man convicted in the shooting death of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller -- "never once denied that he killed Dr...
Some States Calling For Ultrasounds To Limit Abortion
News outlets report on state initiatives to limit abortions by requiring an ultrasound before the procedure. "Over the last decade, ultrasound has quietly become a new front in the grinding state-by-state battle over abortion," The New York Times reports...
Rep. Slaughter Urges Senate Judiciary Committee To Press Kagan About Abortion Views
Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), co-chair of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee urging lawmakers to thoroughly question Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan about her views on abortion rights, the AP/Google News reports. Slaughter described as "troubling" a memo that Kagan wrote in 1997 while working as a policy adviser in the Clinton White House...
Blogs Comment On Palin Speech, Men's Reproductive Rights, Other Topics
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ Sarah Palin's Susan B. Anthony List Speech: Several bloggers recently commented on Palin's Friday speech to the antiabortion-rights group Susan B. Anthony List...
Palin Issues Call For Antiabortion 'Feminist Identity' At Fundraiser
In a speech at a fundraising breakfast for the antiabortion group Susan B. Anthony List, former Alaska Gov. and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told the organization's supporters that they are part of "an emerging, conservative, feminist identity," the Washington Post reports...
Groups On Both Sides Seek Clues About Kagan's Views On Abortion Rights
Groups and lawmakers on both sides of the abortion-rights debate are scouring Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's past writing for clues about her stance on the issue, the Chicago Tribune reports...
