EDITOR’S NOTE: Trust Women Week overlaps with the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and reasserts our firm commitment to reclaiming the future of reproductive decision-making in 2012. Throughout the week, Amplify will be honoring women’s experiences and voices by featuring a different story from The 1 in 3 Campaign January 21-27. WATCH: 1in3Campaign.org: Alex from Advocates for Youth . VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

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Trust Women Week overlaps with the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and reasserts our firm commitment to reclaiming the future of reproductive decision-making in 2012. Throughout the week, Amplify will be honoring women’s experiences and voices by featuring a different story from The 1 in 3 Campaign January 21-27. WATCH: 1in3Campaign.org: Joy from Advocates for Youth . VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Trust Women Week overlaps with the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and reasserts our firm commitment to reclaiming the future of reproductive decision-making in 2012. Throughout the week, Amplify will be honoring women’s experiences and voices by featuring a different story from The 1 in 3 Campaign January 21-27. WATCH: 1in3Campaign.org: Deb from Advocates for Youth . VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

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NOTE: Trust Women Week overlaps with the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and reasserts our firm commitment to reclaiming the future of reproductive decision-making in 2012. Throughout the week, we will be honoring women’s experiences and voices by featuring a different story from The 1 in 3 Campaign January 21-27. Roe v. Wade was decided 39 years [...]

NOTE: Trust Women Week overlaps with the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and reasserts our firm commitment to reclaiming the future of reproductive decision-making in 2012. Throughout the week, we will be honoring women’s experiences and voices by featuring a different story from The 1 in 3 Campaign January 21-27. WATCH THE VIDEO : 1in3Campaign.org: Deborah from Advocates for Youth [...]

By Nicole Clark Last week, we were all psyched because the Food and Drug Administration recommended that Plan B One-Step (also known as emergency contraception) be approved over-the-counter for women and young people of all ages…then the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) gave the FDA the shaft, with Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ruling that younger adolescents don’t [...]

By Kathleen Adams I am absolutely outraged with President Obama for supporting the Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ decision to enforce age restrictions on Plan-B One Step (emergency contraception) for individuals 17 years of age and younger. Essentially President Obama is afraid that 10 and 12 year old girls will take/use Plan B (the [...]

NOTE: This is a guest post from Megan Evans, MD, MPH. Megan is the President of Medical Students for Choice. Like most of the pro-choice community, I was shocked by Secretary Sebelius of The Department of Health and Human Services overruling the FDA’s decision to make Plan B over-the-counter and available for all ages. This was [...]

In a deeply dismaying move, President Obama and the Department of Health and Human Services have spurned the clear-cut medical science backing over-the-counter availability of Plan B-One Step — and in doing so they’ve revealed their willingness to sacrifice the rights and health of women and young people for the sake of appeasing social conservatives. [...]

By Julia Reticker-Flynn, Advocates for Youth A couple months ago I had the opportunity to interview Deborah about women’s experiences seeking abortions prior to Roe v. Wade. During the interview, Deborah shared her story of helping a fellow college student drink tea and turpentine to induce an abortion after visiting a doctor in 1970. You can watch [...]

Every year around the beginning of school, Beloit College releases its notorious  “mindset list” : statements that describe cultural realities for entering freshmen. The statements, like this year’s “The Communist Party has never been the official political party in Russia” or “Men have always been Martians, women, Venusians” remind older folks of how times have changed – or not. [...]

This week’s issue of The New Yorker features a long profile of 2012 Presidential candidate and Minnesota House Representative Michele Bachmann. The article’s subtitle is “The Making of a Republican Front-runner,” which helps underline something exceptionally scary: Michele Bachmann is a current front-runner in the race to become the most powerful public official on earth. One of [...]

GOP Congresswoman Virginia Foxx, who represents the 5th Congressional District in North Carolina, is no friend of common sense. In 2009, in the thick of Washington’s debate on fixing America’s broken health care system, Representative Foxx took to the House floor to warn that health care reform was a bigger existential threat to the United [...]

This time last year, the Obama administration signaled that it would pursue stricter and more faithful enforcement of the gender-equity law known as Title IX. In announcing this move, Vice President Joe Biden called Title IX enforcement a political and moral “no-brainer”:

“What we’re doing here today will better ensure equal opportunity in athletics, and allow women [...]

According to Ugandan news media, David Bahati’s “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” is alive and well again. UGPulse reports that the bill is set to be debated soon by the Uganda Parliament’s Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee. This matches a notice published in the government-owned newspaper New Vision, which earlier this month indicated that Uganda’s Speaker of Parliament Edward Kiwanuka Sekandi “has summoned [...]

When he was running for Wisconsin Governor last year, then-candidate Scott Walker released a television ad (called one of the best of the 2010 primary election season by The Washington Post’s political analysts) in which he burnished his folksy, penny-pinching credentials. The commercial shows Walker bragging about how he packs a brown bag every day to save money [...]

Project SOS is a Jackonsville-based organization that has taught abstinence-only-until-marriage curricula to over 350,000 Florida students (according to its website) since its founding. In large part, it’s been able to do this because of federal funding: since 2002, the group has received more than $6.5 million from the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, including [...]

( Originally published on Amplify ) There’s a lot of handwringing going on out there about the Lila Rose/LiveAction supposed expose videos of Planned Parenthood clinic workers, committing the shocking act of providing medical care. Sure, these journalists activists far right publicity junkies with a stated agenda of going to any lengths to close down Planned Parenthood caught one [...]

“Boys are like microwaves.  Girls are like crockpots.”  More actual lessons about gender from actual abstinence-only-until-marriage programs…Your tax dollars at work! You want references?  Here you go: The idea that gender behaviors are innate because girls and guys carry their books differently is used in both “WAIT (Why Am I Tempted)” and “Choosing the Best.” The things men [...]