by Katelyn | Sep 4, 2012 | Amicus, Reproductive Rights, Sex Equality
In a recent television interview, Rep. Todd Akin, a member of the House Committee on Science, the Republican candidate for Senate from Missouri, said that rape does not result in pregnancy because “if it’s a legitimate rape the female body has ways to try to shut that...
by Katelyn | Mar 14, 2012 | Amicus, Reproductive Rights
Among other recent attempts, some successful and some not, to restrict or make more difficult access to abortion, the Virginia state Legislature passed a bill in the first half of February that forces women seeking abortions to undergo a trans-vaginal ultrasound...
by Katelyn | Mar 1, 2012 | Amicus, Reproductive Rights
There’s been a lot of talk recently about contraception. Mostly it has been about the fact that under the Obama healthcare reform, religious employers are required to provide their employees with health insurance that will provide contraception directly to the...
by Katelyn | Feb 19, 2012 | Amicus, Reproductive Rights
On January 31, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation decided that it would stop giving funds to Planned Parenthood to perform breast cancer exams. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, through its affiliated service providers, performed almost 750,000...