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Reproductive Rights & Family Planning

Defeating Ultrasound Requirements to Protect Women's Health Access

Julie Bero on September 3, 2009 - 12:22pm
In a significant decision last month, an Oklahoma County District Court ruled that a 2008 anti-choice law violated the state constitution.  The law in question (SB 1878) was more burdensome than any prior bill regulating pre-abortion ultrasounds passed in the country, requiring women to undergo an ultrasound and listen to a doctor describe fetal characteristics before consenting to the procedure.  Opponents argued that the law invades a woman's right to privacy and violates doctors' freedom of speech.

Promoting Less Costly, Safer Births

Nathan Newman on August 13, 2009 - 1:32pm
Here's one way states can lower health care costs: reduce the most commonly performed surgery, namely Cesarean sections, or C-sections, to deliver babies -- roughly half of which are performed unnecessarily.

Reforming Sex Education to Prevent Sexually-Transmitted Diseases

Adam Thompson on April 16, 2009 - 11:26am
Even as Planned Parenthood, MTV and the Kaiser Family Foundation team up in a campaign to prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STD), state legislatures are acting to ensure students' access to comprehensive sex education and are rejecting federal funding for failed abstinence-only programs. Half of all sexually active people will have an STD by the age of 25 with 19 million new STD cases occurring each year. These statistics highlight the need for improving youth sex education.

States File Suit Against Last Minute Bush Rule Limiting Women's Access to Reproductive Services

Austin Guest on January 22, 2009 - 12:00pm
7 states are suing the federal government to stop a last minute rule by former President Bush that pre-empts state laws guaranteeing women's access to reproductive services, including abortion and emergency contraception. The so-called "provider conscience regulation" became effective on Tuesday shortly after President Obama's swearing-in and allows health care workers who object to abortion and contraception to deny women care.  This pre-empts state laws designed to ensure access to necessary reproductive care and threatens womens' health, as detailed by the National Women's Law Center.

States Promoting Contraception to Reduce Pregnancies and Abortion Rates

John Bacino on October 15, 2007 - 10:42am

States Promoting Contraception to Reduce Pregnancies and Abortion Rates

Monday, October 15th, 2007

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MA: Board Orders Wal-Mart to Stock Emergency Contraception

Matt Singer on February 14, 2006 - 4:32pm
A significant victory in Massachusetts today, where the Associated Press is reporting that a state law requiring pharmacies to stock medicines frequently soughty is being used by the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy to require Wal-Mart to stock emergency contraception. The decision was spurred by a lawsuit brought by three women against Wal-Mart a couple weeks ago.