Apparently the next big fight will be about birth control. The Catholic Bishops and their right-wing colleagues have decided that HHS’s recent ruling that religious organizations’ insurance plans must cover contraceptive services for all their employees must not stand. The issue blew up after HHS finalized the regulation on January 20, which goes into effect …
The Susan G. Komen Foundation issued a statement today which it hopes will stop the horrible publicity (and reduced cash flow) it’s been getting since it announced it would stop funding Planned Parenthood. It sounds better than it is. Take note of these sentences: We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned …
If you’re curious as to the potential marketing disaster the Susan G. Komen Foundation has just inflicted on itself by its denial of future funding to Planned Parenthood, TBogg has an excellent explanation. He knows a little about the direct marketing business, and he thinks there’s almost a complete overlap between donors to Komen and …
The Susan G. Komen Foundation has announced it will no longer fund Planned Parenthood. Why? Because of a new policy it’s adopted which says it won’t fund any organization which is currently under Congressional investigation. I don’t know what that sounds like to you, but to me it sounds like a targeted guideline meant specifically …
Why, HHS Secretary Sibelius, why? Continuing to restrict the sale of the Plan B pill to women 17 and above flies in the face of not only the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research group’s recommendation but also in the face of common sense. Madame Secretary, are you seriously suggesting that 16-year-olds have no …
Wins in a few off-year elections are no reason to gloat loudly, but I am really pleased that voters in such disparate locations as Ohio, Maine, Mississippi and Arizona reversed policies or recalled those policies’ advocates yesterday. Ohio’s resounding defeat of Governor Kasich’s attempt to eliminate collective bargaining for public workers was super. Mississippi’s somewhat …
Tom Frank wrote a book entitled “What’s the Matter with Kansas” a few years back, attempting to explain why citizens vote against their best interests. After reading this, one can only wonder what indeed is the matter with Kansas. “By a vote of 7 to 3, the City Council repealed the local law that makes …
I wonder if this guy is going to be taken aside by some of his more PR-savvy Republican friends. Many of us liberals have known this for years, but here it’s said right out loud to a national journalist: These cuts are less about saving money and more about abortion and contraception. Evangelicals and Tea …
about insurance coverage for abortion in the United States of America: That’s what the world of women’s choice looks like in this country today. Do I have to tell anyone that Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in the United States? Kansas needs to be reminded. It created new licensing requirements for Planned Parenthood clinics and …
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Republican party: Planned Parenthood will stop treating Medicaid patients and lay off two of its three STD specialists after the donations it had been using to replace state funds ran out Monday. A tough state anti-abortion law cutting off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood of Indiana went into effect May 10, …