Tag: health

Britain's Health Secretary is recommending changes to Britain's abortion laws that would remove a requirement that women receive two doctors' signatures prior to receiving an abortion.  He also recommends lowering the abortion time limit for late-term abortions, but seeks to provide women more options for early medical abortions

Abortion rights supporters in the United Kingdom say that women who have to travel from Northern Ireland (where abortion is illegal) to Britain for abortions face prohibitive costs for the travel and services

Cervical cancer is on the rise in Kenya, with health experts estimating that by 2020 it will be the most common cancer in African women

Time magazine encourages women's empowerment, particularly in family planning, as a way to reduce climate change and positively impact the environment

The Washington Post features a piece about maternal mortality and Partners in Health, a non-profit working in Haiti and Rwanda to improve women's health

Pope Benedict XVI restates the Catholic Church's opposition to contraception (via The International Herald Tribune).  

RH Reality Check says the discovery of a newborn baby abandoned in St. Louis illustrates the inefficacy of Safe Haven laws and highlights the ramifications of a lack of reproductive justice, social support systems and options.  

The ninth annual National Women's Health Week, organized by the US Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health kicked off on Mother's Day, aimed at encouraging women, who are often caregivers for other members of their families, to prioritize their own health.

The Bush administration is cutting off funding for abstinence-only sex education in Washington because this state now requires schools to provide medically accurate information about preventing unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (via The Seattle Post-Intelligencer).

The Boston Globe reports that Mitt Romney's gubernatorial administration approved funding for a Planned Parenthood clinic that will provide abortion services, two months before he left office and began highlighting his antiabortion position as a presidential candidate.

Mike Huckabee believes women can't make decisions for themselves, saying that if elected and successful in banning abortion he would punish doctors who provide abortion services but not women who seek the procedure because they are `victims' (via the Washington Post).

As I completed her abortion, I asked her what she was now going to do about her affiliation with that anti-choice club. Startled, she gasped, sat abruptly up on the operating table, and, with eyes booming horror, blurted out in a tremulous, frightened voice, . . .