By Loretta J Ross I believe President Obama should show strong leadership in repealing the Hyde Amendment that prohibits public funding for abortions for poor women. This
By Galen Sherwin Laurel Simons, (not her real name) who lives in a small town in Western New York, was pregnant with her first child
By Adrien Hilton Almost 40 years ago, the New York radical feminist group Redstockings pledged in its manifesto: “This time we are going all the way.” Redstockings,
by Merle Hoffman As a person who feels that war should be the strategy of last resort, I still like to read military history. I find
Obstetrician Murdered by Terrorist in Amherst, New Yorkby Judith Arcana This poem, written for Barnett Slepianis here dedicated, in memoriamand with gratitude, to George Tiller
By Lauren Guy McAlpin A young woman, we’ll call her Amanda, walked into an agency she saw advertised in her college newspaper. Having missed her
by Pam Chamberlain When I was in college, a group of radical women dressed as witches ran around major U.S. cities doing zap actions, placing
by Loretta J. Ross I’m not a policy wonk. I am very ill suited to talk frequently to legislators to ask them to do the
by Alexis Greene Over the years, Bill Baird, the reproductive rights activist, has been threatened, arrested and jailed. He’s been called a seducer, a self-promoter and
By Gloria Feldt Lars Larson is a conservative radio talk show host with a following of four million listeners. His producer assured me, when asking
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