(Albany, NY Nov. 2, 2011) In the latest Congressional attack on women’s health care, House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health Chair Rep. Joe Pitts held a hearing today on taking away new preventive health benefits from millions of women nationwide, including health plan coverage of birth control without copays. This benefit in new health [...]

Our opinion: Just what do guns and abortion have to do with this nation’s problems right now? Everything, apparently, to House Republicans. Americans are crying out for action from Washington on the economy, on unrelenting high unemployment, on the deterioration of the nation’s middle class. So what does the House of Representatives put on its [...]

New York Times Editorial: House Republicans approved an egregious measure last week that would shrink access to abortion to the point of endangering women’s lives. Read complete article.

For nearly a decade prochoicers have been warning that abortion foes were gearing up to go after contraception, but the possibility of losing birth control was too far-out for most people to take seriously. And you know prochoicers—they’re always crying wolf. Well, wake up, sleepyheads, it’s happening. Read complete article.  

Thirty-eight years after Roe v. Wade recognized a woman’s right to make her own childbearing decisions and legalized abortion nationwide, a newly intensified drive by anti-abortion forces who refuse to accept the law of the land has seriously imperiled women’s ability to exercise that right. Read complete article.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends girls aged 11 to 12 years receive the HPV vaccination.  Leading medical groups, including the American Cancer Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, as well as Planned Parenthood also support girls getting the HPV vaccine.  Facts about HPV and the HPV [...]