Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Rick Weiland wants to focus on the economy, health care, and corporations' anti-democratic domination of politics. He doesn't think social issues will be a big issue in the 2014 election. Republican candidate for U.S. Senate…
Posts tagged as “reproduction”
Elizabeth Rosenthal as been burning up the pages of the New York Times with her series on the high cost of health care in the United States. I mentioned her July 1 article on the high cost of childbirth in…
Ah! Of course Annette Bosworth is a Republican. She and her husband want government to control women's reproductive choices: How do I add the fact that women are at risk so long term birth control should be mandated [Chad Haber,…
Rep. Kristi Noem hasn't thrown her support behind the Violence Against Women Act that passed the Senate with bipartisan support last week. But she has signed on as a co-sponsor to a measure to take away funding from women's health…
This bill should fit South Dakota like Danny Glover. Hey, South Dakota Legislature! If you can consider House Bill 1087 to keep kids safe, then surely you can round me up a sponsor for this public health and safety bill:…
Good grief—Pathfinder International can protect women's reproductive rights by setting up a women's health clinic in rural Bangladesh, but Planned Parenthood can't muster the legal resources to protect rural South Dakota women against the oppression of a 72-hour abortion waiting…
NPR reported last week that the U.S birth rate has dropped to its lowest level ever. According to the Pew Research Center, with the exception of a brief hump that peaked in 2007, the U.S. birth rate has declined steadily…
Denying a woman an abortion can kill her. It can also increase her chances of ending up on welfare, living in poverty, and not holding a job... or so say preliminary findings in the first longitudinal study of women who…