Tag Archive | "reproductive rights"
Hillary Clinton — Reproductive Rights & Gender Equality Essential to Global Prosperity
When people get themselves all riled up when the term “reproductive rights” comes up, it’s usually only about abortion. What many of us forget is that having control of when women (and sometimes girls) have children and how many …
Continue reading...Harold Ford, Step out of Senator Gillibrand’s Way
Friday, January 8, 2010
The political controversy of the week is whether former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford will try to stage a contest to battle Kirsten Gillibrand for her seat in the U.S. Senate. You may recall there was a little uproar over her …
Continue reading...Best of PunditMom 2009 — The “Octomom” and Why We Should Regulate Fertility Treatments
Monday, December 28, 2009
While the Punditfamily takes a little break this week, I thought I’d revisit a few posts I felt strongly about this year. To start off, my thoughts on the “octomom” and how we view adoption vs. birth children. ********************************* I …
Continue reading...If We Take Health Care for Granted, We’ll Get Thrown Under the Bus
Saturday, December 26, 2009
As someone who came of age in the 1970s, I assumed things would continue to progress for women’s rights. I felt lucky to be living in an age where I knew I had access to birth control as I headed …
Continue reading...Snowpocalypse 2009 (With Health Care Crisis Thrown in for Good Measure)
Saturday, December 19, 2009
One good thing about this “snow event” on the I-95 corridor this weekend — legislators are stuck here and have to keep working away on the ever evolving health care bill (not that that’s going to do us a lot …
Continue reading...Am I Angrier at Bart Stupak or Barack Obama?
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
For years, we’ve had our eye on the Supreme Court, wondering with each new judicial appointment how that person would add to the mix on the longevity of reproductive rights, including the right to an abortion. Who knew that some …
Continue reading...Frontal Assault on Reproductive Health Care
Friday, October 2, 2009
Senator Debbie Stabenow is on a roll for women’s health care. First, she took on Senator Jon Kyl about his proposal that maternity care shouldn’t be provided for in the health care reform package: Then, Senator Stabenow contested the plan …
Continue reading...Mothers of Intention — Bea Arthur Was Much More Than Maude
Monday, April 27, 2009
Welcome to this week’s edition of Mothers of Intention, PunditMom’s weekly feature on what other political moms are writing about around the blogosphere. This week, my friend Gloria Feldt has given me permission to cross-post her wonderful essay on the …
Continue reading...The ‘One Step Forward, Two Steps Back’ Dance for Women
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
I’m not trying to be a party pooper. Borrowing one of PunditGirl’s new favorite words — I’m “ecstatic” that the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is going to get signed into law by President Barack Obama. It’s a wonderful step …
Continue reading...PunditMom’s Spin Cycle Friday — Does David Paterson Really Want to Cross the Kennedys?
Friday, January 23, 2009
I have a feeling the Kennedy family is going to have a few choice words for New York Governor David Paterson. After leading her to believe she was the front runner, Paterson now says Caroline Kennedy was “not ready for …
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