Pelican Project Pro-Life

Examiner: “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) intends to bring the legislation to the floor early this week, but Pro-life Representative Bart Stupak (D-MI) and a posse of conservative Democrats might just throw a wrench in Pelosi’s plans.

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A warning about Tri-Lo Sprintec birth control Writing at The Frisky, Wendy Atterberry shares her recent experience with a switch from the original prescription birth control to a generic version after her insurance company changed its coverage and her pharmacist reassured her the generic version be “the same” as the branded version. They were not. Earlier this year, the FDA approved a generic low-dose birth control called Tri-Lo Sprintec. Afterward, many insurance companie

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Remember Robert McDonnell’s Master Thesis which contended that working women and feminists are “detrimental” to the family? In efforts to avoid this Republican candidate from governing his anti-women wackness over the state of Virginia, NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia did an awesome video asking folks if this is the kind of governor they’d want. Working Women for Virginia also have an ad and Facebook campaign against McDonnell. Good stuff.

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Yesterday, our colleagues at Jezebel wrote about a new Oklahoma law that will require the details of every abortion to be posted on a public website. Proponents say this will prevent abortion — apparently by shaming and burdening women and doctors. Anna N. wrote: The law (which you can look at here — it’s HR 1595) mandates that a 34-item questionnaire be filled out by abortion providers for each procedure. The questionnaire doesn’t include the woman’s name or “any informati

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Today’s post is from Carole Joffe, author of Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us (forthcoming in early 2010). Joffe is professor of sociology at the University of California-Davis and a researcher at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California-San Francisco, and she contributes to the blog at RHrealitycheck.org.”I have seen the future and it works” goes the old saying. Well, this writer has seen h

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Officials of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) saw mixed results when the Senate Finance Committee completed voting on amendment to its proposed health care reform bill this week.

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Latina Teens Targeted for Breast Cancer and ‘Preemies’ MEDIA ADVISORY,Sept. 29 /Christian Newswire/ — The following is submitted by RPRC, Brent Rooney (MSc), fullterm40@gmail.com: Latina Miss “F.B.” won her Breast Cancer (BC) law suit claim against Portland, Oregon’s All Women’s Health Services (abortion clinic ) on 24 January 2005. AWHS did not dispute any F.B. claim, since AWHS conceded all claims in an “offer of judgment.” F.B. was under age 18

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When President Obama presented his health care reform plan , two points made me want to throw a shoe at my computer screen. One which I discussed in depth, was the treatment of immigrants. The second was reproductive health, specifically abortion. The President said clearly that the undocumented wouldn’t be covered and that abortions wouldn’t be covered. Now that the actual legislation is being worked on, I am nearly banging my head against my keyboard this morning as I read a New York Tim

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California is a pro-choice state. We’ve proven that with the defeat of parental notification measures that have passed easily in less progressive states. Three times. But that doesn’t mean that the anti-choice crusaders will give it a rest. They’ve filed an initiative to redefine the definition of a person to include a fetus, and are gearing up to get the signatures: Today, Mason will join activists in Sacramento to announce a signature-gathering campaign for an initiative to amend

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Reproductive health care advocates are modifying the old adage “don’t get angry, get organized” by going local. After weathering eight years of conservative attacks, the pro-choice community held high hopes that the Obama Administration, bolstered by democratic majorities in Congress, would signal an end to partisan bickering over federal funding for comprehensive care and the tedious national obsession with abortion. With that optimism scattering to the four winds of manufactured polit

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