Edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore; Soft Skull Press, re-issue 2008, 360 pp. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is angry at a GLBT mainstream that…
Words of Choice doesn’t literally hit readers upside the head to shake some sense into them, but it comes close. Based on…
Cambridge, MA, South End Press, 2007, 196 pp. My husband tells me that when heterosexual men talk about women in the…
In the early 1980s, anti-abortion forces began to heed criticism that their reverence for the fetus came at the expense of women.…
A s reproductive rights activists across the U.S. gather to commemorate the 34th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on January 22, they’ll…
I t is obvious that nothing good is happening domestically on reproductive rights. Internationally, however, a small bright spot appeared in mid-February…
Need inspiration in these grim political times? If you’re in New York City, head to Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood and walk to…
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (WOMENSENEWS)–It is a cold, blustery Saturday and in the hours before a blizzard is set to begin, people in the…
W hen Annie Tummino went on vacation two years ago, she forgot to take her birth control pills for several days. Despite…
Troy Newman, founder of Operation Rescue West (ORW), calls Wichita, Kansas “the frontline of the abortion war…the American Auschwitz” and dubs Dr.…
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