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Jul 23, 2007 Poll Shows Clinton With Solid Lead Among Democrats more
Mar 14, 2007 The Caucus in the News: NWPC Founder Honored at UCLA Event Lupe Anguiano, unsung heroine and founding member of the National Women's Political Caucus, was recognized for a lifetime of activism at a UCLA event that coincided with her 78th birthday. more
Jan 22, 2007 Clinton Opens Her Campaign With Health Insurance Plan With a 4-year-old girl clutching her hand, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton began her newborn presidential campaign yesterday at a Manhattan health care clinic, announcing legislation that would significantly expand federal health insurance for Americans under age 18. more
Nov 21, 2006 An Opening On Abortion? If both parties combine wisdom with shrewdness, the election of a new congressional majority should open the way for a better approach to the abortion question. The bitter political brawling of the past three decades has created an unproductive stalemate that leaves abortion opponents... more
Nov 13, 2006 Pelosi Endorses Murtha as Next Majority Leader House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) endorsed Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) yesterday as the next House majority leader, thereby stepping into a contentious intraparty fight between Murtha and her current deputy, Maryland's Steny H. Hoyer. more
Nov 10, 2006 Bush Meets With Pelosi; Both Pledge Cooperation President Bush, confronted face to face with the reality of divided government, broke bread with the two top House Democrats at the White House and vowed not to allow partisan divisions to hobble the remaining two years of his presidency. more
Nov 9, 2006 In The Courts | Supreme Court Justices in Arguments of Federal Abortion Ban Challenge Ask About Medical Details of Banned Procedures Supreme Court justices on Wednesday during arguments in a Department of Justice appeal to uphold a federal law banning so-called "partial-birth" abortion focused "intensely" on the medical methods used in the procedures banned by the law and its health implications, the Washington Post reports... more
Jun 26, 2006 The birth control divide more
Jun 22, 2006 Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report Highlights Women's Health Policy Issues Related to 2006 Elections more
Jun 20, 2006 South Dakota Abortion Ban Will Be Put to Vote in November By GRETCHEN RUETHLING The state's secretary of state has certified that enough signatures were collected to send a law banning nearly all abortions to a vote in November. Abortion rights advocates filed petitions with more than 38,000 signatures last month. They needed 16,728 signatures to... more
Jun 20, 2006 Court to Address Abortion Restrictions By Amy Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writer The Supreme Court said yesterday that it will broaden its review of whether a federal law banning a controversial abortion method is constitutional, taking the second case in four months that will reveal whether the court has shifted significantly... more
Jun 19, 2006 Pregnancy Centers Using Deceptive Approaches, Tax-Payer Funds, Report Says Crisis pregnancy centers are using "deceptive tactics" to attract women seeking abortion services, according to a report released Thursday by the National Abortion Federation, the New York Sun reports. The report says that the centers -- which do not provide abortion services -- are deceiving... more
Jun 19, 2006 Court to Decide Abortion Law case WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it would expand its review of a federal law banning some abortion procedures and would decide a California case on whether the law was too vague and imposed a burden on women. The justices in February agreed to rule on a Nebraska... more
Jun 19, 2006 S.D. to Vote on Abortion Law This Fall PIERRE, S.D. -- South Dakota voters this fall will decide the fate of a law that would ban most abortions in the state, Secretary of State Chris Nelson said Monday. Nelson said opponents of the measure have gathered enough signatures to refer the law passed by the Legislature to a statewide... more
Jun 18, 2006 Blanco signs abortion ban into law BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Kathleen Blanco signed a strict anti-abortion ban into law and a group supporting abortion rights condemned the move as an example of "misplaced priorities of politicians in Louisiana." more
Jun 4, 2006 What Happens When There Is No Plan B? By Dana L. Sunday, June 4, 2006; Page B01 The conservative politics of the Bush administration forced me to have an abortion I didn't want. Well, not literally, but let me explain. more
May 20, 2006 Panel Reverses Bush Cuts in Family Planning Aid By CELIA W. DUGGER A House appropriations subcommittee yesterday approved a foreign aid budget for next year that would reverse the deep cuts President Bush proposed for international family planning programs he himself once described as among the best ways to prevent abortion. The... more
May 8, 2006 Mary Cheney's Step Forward By Elizabeth Birch and Hilary Rosen
Washington Post Editorial

Mary Cheney's new book is out. The author herself has been out as a lesbian for many years. In fact, before her father ran for vice president, she was the marketing liaison to the gay and lesbian community for... more
May 8, 2006 Indian Tribe May Open Abortion Clinic on Its Land The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe has vowed to build an abortion clinic on Indian land -- despite South Dakota's statewide ban on abortion. The clinic, which would be outside the jurisdiction of the state, could possibly remain open even if the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling were someday... more
May 5, 2006 Unwanted Pregnancies Rise for Poor Women Rate Drops for Those Well Above Poverty Level, Report Indicates
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer

Poor women in America are increasingly likely to have unwanted pregnancies, whereas relatively affluent women are succeeding more and more in getting pregnant only... more
Apr 23, 2006 Barbara Anne Ferris The 10th Congressional District deserves representation that is serious and reflective of its residents' priorities Sunday, April 23, 2006 It is extremely unusual for a newspaper to withdraw its endorsement from an incum bent it has supported for years - the more so when that officeholder is a... more
Apr 19, 2006 Vetoes put abortion back into campaign (AZ) Napolitano out of step, GOP frontrunner says Matthew Benson The Arizona Republic Apr. 19, 2006 12:00 AM A string of vetoes by Gov. Janet Napolitano has brought new focus to an abortion issue that has been overshadowed by immigration and other matters this legislative session. ... more
Apr 17, 2006 'Roe v. Wade': The divided states of America By Susan Page, USA TODAY COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two hours after South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds signed an abortion ban last month, NARAL Pro-Choice America blasted an e-mail to its supporters: "Is your state next?" The South Dakota legislation and the abortion rights group's warning are early... more
Apr 17, 2006 'Roe v. Wade': The divided states of America By Susan Page, USA TODAY COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two hours after South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds signed an abortion ban last month, NARAL Pro-Choice America blasted an e-mail to its supporters: "Is your state next?" The South Dakota legislation and the abortion rights group's warning are early... more
Apr 14, 2006 Murphy has raised $502,000 in 2006 for Gerlach challenge more
Apr 13, 2006 Busby Faces Uphill Battle to Best Bilbray more
Apr 9, 2006 Abortion Ban Foes Petition for a Choice Even some conservative South Dakotans sign a bid to hold a vote on the law, which was meant to spark a Supreme Court test of Roe vs. Wade. By Stephanie Simon STURGIS, S.D. — Volunteers pushing to overturn the nation's most far-reaching abortion ban are surprised and delighted by the... more
Apr 1, 2006 Ward Connerly Strikes Again Read President Llenda Jackson-Leslie's article in the Spring edition of Ms. Magazine, on news stands now!
Apr 1, 2006 Ward Connerly Strikes Again Read President Llenda Jackson-Leslie's article in the Spring edition of Ms. Magazine, on news stands now!
Mar 28, 2006 Morning-After Pill Draw Catholic Concerns By SUSAN HAIGH The Associated Press Tuesday, March 28, 2006; 3:55 AM HARTFORD, Conn. -- A growing number of states are considering laws that would require hospitals to provide emergency contraception to rape victims, drawing criticism from supporters of the Roman Catholic... more
Mar 28, 2006 Muslim Woman Wins Case Vs. Dutch School By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: March 28, 2006 Filed at 1:52 a.m. ET AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- A Muslim woman who refuses to shake men's hands for religious reasons cannot be barred from a Dutch teacher-training program. The Dutch Equal Treatment Commission found Monday... more
Mar 27, 2006 Women struggling with cuts to clinics (TX) more
Mar 24, 2006 Mich. Governor OKs Abortion Ultrasound Law more
Mar 23, 2006 Mrs. Clinton Says G.O.P.'s Immigration Plan Is at Odds With the Bible Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton invoked the Bible yesterday to criticize a stringent border security measure that, among other things, would make it a federal crime to offer aid to illegal immigrants. "It is hard to believe that a Republican leadership that is constantly talking about values... more
Mar 15, 2006 Give the U.N.'s Reins to a Woman Editorial By Jessica Neuwirth The United Nations is lagging. The premier world organization is still missing the point that many have grasped in countries such as Germany, Jamaica, Liberia, Chile and New Zealand: that women, too, can serve as leaders at the highest level. ... more
Feb 9, 2006 Teen Girls Using Pills, Smoking More Than Boys Government's Findings Counter Overall Decline By Ceci Connolly Teenage girls, having caught up to their male counterparts in illegal drug use and alcohol consumption, now have the dubious distinction of surpassing boys in smoking and prescription drug abuse. In the past... more
Feb 2, 2006 Two T-Shirts, Two Messages and Two Capitol Ejections Cindy Sheehan's shirt on Tuesday night listed the number of soldiers who have died in Iraq. Beverly Young's shirt said "Support the Troops." To the police guarding the Capitol, the messages alone were reason enough to remove the women from the House visitors' gallery during President Bush's... more
Feb 2, 2006 A Gender Difference in Heart Disease Many women suffer from a form of heart disease that is fundamentally different from the type that strikes most men and is easily missed by standard tests, researchers reported yesterday. more
Jan 12, 2006 Study on Abortion of Female Fetuses in India Receives Mixed Reaction from Indian Doctors, Advocates The Indian Medical Association , which represents about 178,000 doctors, on Wednesday refuted a recent study that said up to 10 million female fetuses might have been aborted in the country over the past 20 years, calling the report inaccurate, while some advocates said the report indicates... more
Jan 12, 2006 ABCNews' 'Nightline' Profiles Arkansas Physician Who Has Performed At Least 10,000 Abortions ABCNews' " Nightline " on Wednesday profiled William Harrison, 70, a physician with Fayetteville Women's Clinic in Arkansas, who has been providing abortion services for more than 30 years and who estimates that he has terminated more than 10,000 pregnancies (Bashir, "Nightline," ABCNews,... more
Dec 12, 2005 200 pharmacists attend training for morning-after pill CONCORD, N.H. --Six months after Gov. John Lynch signed a bill that would make "morning-after" pills available to women hoping to prevent unwanted pregnancies, about 200 pharmacists have received training in dispensing the drug. more
Oct 17, 2005 Congress to Consider Voting Rights Act By JEFFREY McMURRAY The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Supporters of the Voting Rights Act acknowledge they know no member of Congress who wants to scrap it. But with hearings beginning Tuesday, Congress is hardly their biggest concern. The House Judiciary Committee this week holds the... more
Sep 27, 2005 Saudi Women Have Message for U.S. Envoy JIDDA, Saudi Arabia- The audience - 500 women covered in black at a Saudi university - seemed an ideal place for Karen P. Hughes, a senior Bush administration official charged with spreading the American message in the Muslim world, to make her pitch. more
Sep 23, 2005 FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford Resigns By LAURAN NEERGAARD The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Embattled Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Lester Crawford abruptly resigned Friday, telling his staff that at age 67 it was time to step aside. President Bush designated the National Cancer Institute's director, Dr.... more
Sep 15, 2005 Liberal groups focus on 'flipping' centrists By Alexander Bolton Liberal interest groups are focusing on flipping three centrist Republican senators from the Northeast as the key to their strategy at least to tarnish the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. Many Democratic Senate aides, strategists and... more
Aug 19, 2005 Women 'want role in politics' Chief Executive Donald Tsang was asked Thursday to ensure a more prominent role for women in politics, with a special seat in the Legislative Council and a prominent role in the Election Committee. Ann Chiang, convenor of the Hong Kong Business Economic Forum, suggested the government creates... more
Aug 18, 2005 Women sought for city posts Bob O'Connor has launched a campaign to recruit women for city jobs and political appointments as he nears an all-but-certain victory in the November election to become Pittsburgh's next mayor. Hundreds of recruitment e-mails from O'Connor have been circulating this month among top Pittsburgh... more
Aug 18, 2005 Group supports women candidates Democrats and Republicans in statewide elected office here in New Jersey disagree on many things, but the majority of them share one characteristic: They're men. In a state with one of the lowest levels of women elected to state government across the nation, a new bipartisan group has... more
Aug 18, 2005 Women's rights emerges as issue for Supreme Court nominee When Supreme Court nominee Judge John Roberts Jr. served in the White House counsel's office, he was asked whether a government lawyer could be nominated for an award for women who advance professionally. After saying "yes," he added that "some might question whether encouraging homemakers to... more
Jul 8, 2005 Abortion in the Crossfire By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Is Roe in danger? In the coming shoutfest over the Supreme Court, you'll be hearing plenty about the danger to abortion that Bush's pick could pose -- or, from the other side, how the nominee could help overturn the landmark 1973 ruling. But is that... more
Jul 7, 2005 Sex Tourism Gains Congressional Attention G&F Tours specializes in sex travel, a type of international tourism that guides travelers to international brothels, massage parlors and bars where prostitution is legal or ignored by police. U.S. Internet users can find information about tours to Thailand and the Philippines with a click of a... more
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