Sort by The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) - 22/07/2008 - YouTube
Hillary Clinton takes on President Bush's attempt to limit women's access to birth control at a Planned Parenthood press conference.
Sort by The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) - 22/07/2008
Here is her post at Huffington Post (also at Reality Check ) on it: The Bush administration is up to its old tricks again, quietly putting ideology before science and women's health. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is poised to put in place new barriers to accessing common forms of contraception like birth control pills, emergency contraception and IUDs by labeling them "abortion."...
Sort by Shakespeare's Sister (Free subscription) - 21/07/2008
Last Thursday, I posted the letter penned by Senators Hillary Clinton and Patty Murray , addressed to Secretary Michael O. Leavitt of the Department of Health and Human Services in response to the Bush administration proposal re: "conscience clauses" and redefining contraception as abortion. Today, Clinton published a post at RH Reality Check (and HuffPo ) responding to the "outrageous attempt by the...
Sort by The Moderate Voice (Free subscription) - 22/07/2008
Annnnd….attempts by state and federal governments to interfere with a woman’s freedom to control what goes on inside her own personal womb continue apace. Joe Windish has an earlier piece about an 8th Circuit decision that unleashes the State of South Dakota on women who seek abortion in that state by letting the state insert a word or two on behalf of its legislature into the discussion. At this...
Sort by Tennessee Guerilla Women (Free subscription) - 22/07/2008
We will not put up with this radical, ideological agenda to turn the clock back on women's rights. -- Hillary Rodham Clinton Another day, another plan from womb-less pResident Bush to make women barefoot and pregnant forever. Preferably white women, we're sure. This latest one would change the definition of abortion . Bush's womb envy knows no limit. As usual, Hillary Rodham Clinton is kicking his...
Sort by 2 Political Junkies (Free subscription) - 23/07/2008
... When Republicans say they want to reduce/stop abortions in this country what they seemingly want to do is to reduce the number of non-pregnant women. I don't know how you can conclude anything else when you take a look at their policies. First Up: Paying, or rather, not paying for birth control Surely one way to reduce the number of abortions is to increase access to birth control. (How many times...
Sort by The Democratic Daily (Free subscription) - 22/07/2008
Hillary Clinton took on the Bush Administration’s plan to define birth control as abortion and undermine women’s rights, today in a press conference and the blogosphere. Here’s a clip from the press conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA56Oz-t_rQ In a blog post cross posted on the HuffPo and RhRealityCheck, Clinton said: The Bush administration is up to its old tricks again, quietly [...]
