While waiting in line with hundreds of others, three NARAL activists were denied entry into a John McCain Town Hall meeting held in Albuquerque Tuesday morning after being told they were trespassing and being threatened with arrest: (via
New Mexico FBIHOP).
An ad by the Planned Parenthood Action Fund showing John McCain's July 10th interview where he fails to address his stance on health insurance coverage of birth control is being launched in the television markets of several swing states: (via The Washington Post).
Amanda Marcotte writes on "The Pro-Choice First Lady Stunt", whereby conservative candidates' wives pose as pro-choice in order to mollify their husbands' anti-choice views, and points out how ultimately this practice continues to confer women's reproductive rights in the hands of men: (via RH Reality Check).
Legislators and activists respond to yesterday's disclosure of the Bush administration's HHS proposal that would limit birth control access by redefining some types of contraception as abortion and that confuses the medical definition of conception: (via Reuters).
Jessica Arons of The Nation writes a piece on how the anti-choice movement has crafted the abortion debate to center on late-term abortions, when in reality other issues concerning reproductive health are much more imperative and widespread.
University of Michigan researchers found that teen sexual behavior is not a predictor of HPV risk, and because the virus is so common and easily transmitted researchers suggest all teens, regardless of current sexual behavior, should receive the vaccine: (via RH Reality Check).
Dr. Sue Makin, an OB/GYN working in Malawi, shares her account of the poor reproductive health conditions for women in a country where two-thirds of deaths among women of reproductive age are due to pregnancy or childbirth: (via The New York Times).
