Women in Combat
There will be a longer post about this (hopefully) tomorrow, but briefly a response to this:
...read moreGreatest Hits: The Hyde Amendment
Originally posted on January 7, 2007. Women’s eNews has a great article about the anti-choice Hyde Amendment, and pro-choice efforts to dismantle it now that Hyde has left Congress. A quick 101 for those who aren’t familiar with the Hyde Amendment: Passed in the late 1970s, the Hyde Amendment blocks federal Medicaid funding from paying [...]
...read moreThe Hyde Amendment
Women’s eNews has a great article about the anti-choice Hyde Amendment, and pro-choice efforts to dismantle it now that Hyde has left Congress. A quick 101 for those who aren’t familiar with the Hyde Amendment: Passed in the late 1970s, the Hyde Amendment blocks federal Medicaid funding from paying for abortion. So if you’re a [...]
...read moreDenying Military Women Medical Care
Who supports the troops? Congress has decided not to support a bill that would put emergency contraception back in military health care facilities. The drug used to be on the Department of Defense’s Basic Care Formulatry, but was removed without explanation in 2002. Because why offer basic reproductive healthcare to the women who work hard [...]
...read moreThe Women of Gitmo
There are countless reasons to be outraged about the abuses of detainees at American military prisons. But there is one abuse about which there can surely be no debate, even among the die-hard supporters of President Bush: the exploitation and debasement of women serving in the United States military. This practice must come to an [...]
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