Abortion fight at Catholic hospital pushes ACLU to seek federal help

Rob Stein reports in The Washington Post: “The American Civil Liberties Union [on Dec. 22] asked federal health officials to ensure that Catholic hospitals provide emergency reproductive care to pregnant women, saying the refusal by religiously affiliated hospitals to provide abortion and other services was becoming an increasing problem.”

Minnesota Abortion Provider Helps Meet Need in South Dakota

“Carol Ball’s day begins in the dark, in another state. By the time she arrives at work, crosses a snowy parking lot and enters the austere one-story Planned Parenthood clinic here, she has flown 200 miles to do something no South Dakota doctor will do.…

Health Reform Could Help ERA Ratification

From Women’s eNews: Women’s Equality Day today commemorates U.S. women’s suffrage. It also marks the date the ERA was proposed in 1923. Laura Callow’s account of suffrage and ERA’s “invisible enemies” includes a look at today’s insurance lobby.