On Aug. 13, the Food and Drug Administration approved ella, an emergency contraceptive pill effective up to five days after unprotected intercourse, for the U.S. market. Predictably, the usual suspects — the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America and other anti-abortion rights groups — are outraged.
On July 27, hatemongering anti-abortion group Operation Rescue cheered as the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (KSBHA) filed an 11-count petition recommending that Dr. Ann Neuhaus face disciplinary action for late-term abortion referrals she made for Dr. George Tiller before his murder last year.
On May 27, the Senate Armed Service Committee approved an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would repeal the prohibition on female service members obtaining abortions at military medical facilities using their own funds.
Abortion rights supporters cheered when President Obama lifted the Global Gag Rule during his first week in office, allowing international family planning service providers to reinstate funding lost during the Bush era. But from that first week we appear to have slipped into a period of more restriction on abortion rights, not less.
Mary Beth Hastings of Truthout discusses the U.S. government’s proposal to implement abstience-only sex education in Nigeria, saying, “It seems you can’t keep a bad idea down. Even though the Obama administration has pledged that science will finally tru…
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