Remember Savita Halappanavar

Katha Pollitt writes for The Nation: “When pregnancy kills a woman, her fetus dies, too. So what is the point of denying a life-saving abortion except to underline that she is the vessel, and the fetus is the human being?”

Gay marriage takes next steps

Edward Isaac-Dovere, Emily Schultheis and Juana Summers report for Politico: “Gay activists are preparing to quickly use the momentum from this year’s election to try to legalize marriage in at least seven new states and force Congress and the president…

Bikini Kill was a girl punk group ahead of its time

Chris Richards writes for The Washington Post: “Formed in Olympia, Wash., in 1990, [Bikini Kill] helped launch riot grrrl, a radical feminist movement that would spread from Adams Morgan group houses to the pages of Newsweek.”

The War On Women Is a Class War

NOW President Terry O’Neill is quoted in this article by Richard Eskow on AlterNet. Eskow writes: ” Women are more likely to be poor than men are, and single mothers are more than twice as likely to be poor as single fathers. Approximately one out of eve…

UN Declares Birth Control a Human Right, and America Falls Short

Lilli O’Donnell writes on PolicyMic: “The U.N. has taken a bold and progressive step by declaring access to contraception a human right, proposing that everyone in the world should be able to determine when and if to have children and saying only when th…