President Barack Obama signed an executive order Wednesday pledging that no federal funding will be used for abortion under the new health bill. "The order had been demanded by a key bloc of antiabortion Democrats as the price for their support for the health bill that narrowly passed the House...
The following summarizes selected women's health-related videos. *Schakowsky Reacts to Executive Order: On Monday, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow that although there are restrictions on abortion in the new health reform law, she...
Washington Times: The President will sign an executive order Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in a much smaller ceremony than the one for the health care reform bill Tuesday. "The order bans the federal government from using taxpayer money for abortions offered through insurance exchanges created under...
Washington Times: The President will sign an executive order Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in a much smaller ceremony than the one for the health care reform bill Tuesday. "The order bans the federal government from using taxpayer money for abortions offered through insurance exchanges created under...
Washington Times: The President will sign an executive order Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in a much smaller ceremony than the one for the health care reform bill Tuesday. "The order bans the federal government from using taxpayer money for abortions offered through insurance exchanges created under...
Washington Times: The President will sign an executive order Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in a much smaller ceremony than the one for the health care reform bill Tuesday. "The order bans the federal government from using taxpayer money for abortions offered through insurance exchanges created under...
Washington Times: The President will sign an executive order Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in a much smaller ceremony than the one for the health care reform bill Tuesday. "The order bans the federal government from using taxpayer money for abortions offered through insurance exchanges created under...
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "The Pro-Choice Crowd Fights Back," Dana Goldstein, Daily Beast's "Blogs and Stories": While several abortion-rights groups have "criticize[d] Democratic lawmakers for making too many compromises on reproductive rights" in...
The following summarizes two opinion pieces discussing abortion-related issues in the health reform debate. ~ Jessica Arons, Kaiser Health News: "In an attempt to keep health reform from being torpedoed by the ever-contentious topic of abortion, advocates and opponents of abortion rights were...
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "Healthcare Reform Bill Abortion Debate is Nonsensical," Robert Schlesinger, U.S. News & World Report's "Thomas Jefferson Street": The issue of how health reform would handle abortion coverage is "of the...
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "Healthcare Reform Bill Abortion Debate is Nonsensical," Robert Schlesinger, U.S. News & World Report's "Thomas Jefferson Street": The issue of how health reform would handle abortion coverage is "of the...
The Washington Post explores the use of riders on health insurance policies to cover abortion, a proposal that has sparked controversy in the national health overhaul debate. "In North Dakota, where insurers can cover abortions if customers pay a separate premium, the state's largest provider...
A team of Swedish researchers concludes that taking misoprostol at home as part of a medical abortion regimen is a safe option for women who are 50 to 63 days pregnant, according to a study published in the journal Human Reproduction, Reuters reports. The study's authors said that their research...
The West Virginia House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved a bill (HB 4517), including two new amendments, that would alter an existing state abortion law by requiring that that women be able to view an ultrasound image of their fetus before an abortion, the Charleston Daily Mail reports...
I am for abortion. Everyone says you're ending an innocent person's life. Yes, that's true. But in most religions, you believe in something positive to happen to it, right? Some people believe the aborted fetus will go to heaven. And others believe in reincarnation, so it would just have another...
The following summarizes select women's health-related videos. Stupak, Sebelius Discuss Reform Vote: On Thursday's "Good Morning America," Sebelius countered Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-Mich.) claims that the Senate health reform bill would lessen restrictions on federal funding of abortion. "I think...
In an opinion piece, Newsweek reporter Sarah Kliff examines abortion-rights supporters' efforts to lessen stigma surrounding the procedure by focusing on women's personal abortion stories. "In the nearly four decades since Roe v. Wade, in magazines and blogs, in tweets and T-shirts, thousands of...
In a press conference Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) signaled that House Democrats might be willing to accept the Senate's language on abortion coverage and health insurance for immigrants, Roll Call reports. The issues are among the many that have divided the House Democratic...
In a press conference Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) signaled that House Democrats might be willing to accept the Senate's language on abortion coverage and health insurance for immigrants, Roll Call reports. The issues are among the many that have divided the House Democratic...
The Kentucky Health and Welfare Committee has rejected a prescriptive bill (SB 38) that would have required abortion providers to perform an ultrasound and offer the woman a chance to view the image before the procedure, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports (Yetter, Louisville Courier-Journal...