women’s health

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), a breast-cancer survivor, has been busy on the news shows this week, attacking the new guideline that women seek routine mammograms later in life. Last night, she was at it again, telling MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that it’s “totally inappropriate” for a panel without any sitting cancer specialists to make such [...]

Republicans on Capitol Hill were sure quick to go after the new federal guidelines recommending that women should seek routine mammograms beginning at age 50 instead of 40. “This is how rationing begins,” Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said Wednesday on Capitol Hill. “This is when you start getting a bureaucrat between you and your physician. [...]

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), a long-time abortion rights advocate, is predicting that a controversial amendment restricting abortion coverage that passed the House won’t win the 60 votes needed to pass in the Senate, The Huffington Post reports.
“If someone wants to offer this very radical amendment, which would really tear apart [a decades-long] compromise, then I [...]

How is it possible that the FBI was told repeatedly just days before the murder of Dr. George Tiller that Scott Roeder, now the leading suspect, had repeatedly broken federal law by vandalizing the women’s health clinic where Tiller worked, including gluing the locks of the clinic, and the FBI did nothing about it?
Meanwhile, if [...]

For eight years, the United States has observed a policy that few Americans outside the reproductive rights community probably knew about: International groups that provide abortions — or even counseling on the procedure — have been barred from receiving federal funding.
Today, that ban ends.
This afternoon, President Barack Obama signed an executive order repealing the restriction, [...]

Earlier this month, we ran a piece indicating that congressional Democrats have plans to reverse a controversial Bush administration rule that could limit women’s access to reproductive health services — but they’re not sure yet how they’ll do it.
The same is true, it seems, of the Democrats’ strategy for a host of other “midnight regulations” [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In the past week, Gov. Sarah Palin has ramped up her anti-abortion rhetoric, going so far as to say that Sen. Barack Obama “wouldn’t even stand up for the rights of infants born alive during an abortion.”
Whether or not her attacks on Obama are valid — which they’re not — is one [...]