How will healthcare reform affect women's reproductive rights?
Katha Pollitt interviewed sociologist Carole Joffe about the future of American women's reproductive rights and health. Read the interview here.
3/29/2010
3/20/2010
New Nation Column: "Payback for Prochoicers"
An excerpt from Pollitt's latest column:
"If healthcare reform becomes law, you can thank prochoicers. In the end, forced to decide between sacrificing abortion coverage and voting down coverage of everything else for 30 million people, abortion-rights supporters took the hit...You can call prochoice leaders hypocritical or cowardly or feeble or excessively deferential to the president's agenda. But one thing you can't call them is selfishly obsessed with their own political purity. That would be the antichoicers--the Catholic bishops, Bart Stupak, Ben Nelson. They were the big evil babies who were willing to let millions suffer and 45,000 people die every year unless they got to deprive women of their reproductive rights."
Read the full piece here.
3/15/2010
Nazia Quazi Update
Nazia Quazi is still trapped in Saudi Arabia because of sexist laws. Quazi is a dual citizen of both India and Canada, though neither nation will support her pleas for assistance. Read about how you can help here.
Pollitt originally wrote about Nazia Quazi in January.
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