The Stupak-Pitts amendment to the healthcare reform legislation means women who currently have insurance coverage for abortion services could lose this coverage in the new system. This amendment makes it virtually impossible for private … [Read more...]
New Research: Decline in Abortion Access
NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts recently released new research showing that the availability of abortion care in the Commonwealth has declined dramatically since the early part of the decade. The study found that Massachusetts - like the … [Read more...]
Rebuttal to Kathleen Parker’s Column on Abortion and Health Reform in the Washington Post
In today's Washington Post, Kathleen Parker acknowledges that the bills in Congress don't require federal funding of abortion services, but she then abandons the facts and goes on to repeat baseless anti-choice talking points. The truth is … [Read more...]
Health care reform and abortion
Recently, there has been a flurry of debate over health care reform and reproductive rights, especially the issue of abortion. Opponents of health care reform are using anti-abortion politics as a way to derail real change. NARAL Pro-Choice … [Read more...]
U.S. Senate won’t condemn clinic violence
Many people across party and ideological lines have spoken out against anti-abortion violence in the wake of Dr. George Tiller's murder. Recently, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) wrote a … [Read more...]
Remembering Dr. George Tiller
Dr. Tiller was a kind, generous, thoughtful, and compassionate man. During his life, he was vilified by the anti-choice movement and called the most horrific names imaginable. Even after his murder, some anti-choice extremists still insist … [Read more...]
Lemons, honey, and sea sponges…
Lemons... Honey... Peach pits... Animal intestines... Dates... and Sea Sponges... What do these have in common? They were used as birth control in 1800s. Thankfully, times have changed...or have they? Currently, despite the Commonwealth's … [Read more...]
1992 Seems Like Yesterday
Those words still ring true seventeen years later, when another "entire generation has come of age free to assume Roe's concept of liberty in defining the capacity of women to act in society, and to make reproductive decisions." I've felt … [Read more...]
Federal court ruling to improve over-the-counter access to emergency contraception (EC) for minors
U.S. District Judge Edward R. Korman ruled on the Monday that the FDA must make the emergency contraceptive pill, Plan B, available to 17 year olds over the counter, and to reconsider whether or not it should be available to women of any … [Read more...]
The Catholic Church’s latest anti-choice crusade
There's an article in the recent issue of Time that describes the Catholic Church's anti-choice campaign against the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). This bill would codify the protections of Roe v. Wade into federal law and protect a woman's … [Read more...]