Who’s Your Health Hero? Nominations Open April 1 for OBOS Women’s Health Heroes Awards
When Our Bodies Ourselves launched the Women's Health Heroes Awards in 2009, we didn't anticipate the outpouring of essays and videos we received … More
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Reproductive Health: The Facts on Health Care Reform, Georgia and Lilith Fair (Yes, All of the Above)
Putting HCR in Context: The Guttmacher Institute looks at the pros and cons of health care reform as it relates to reproductive health, including … More
Washington State Bans Shackling of Incarcerated Women in Labor and Post-Delivery
Washington state Gov. Chris Gregoire last week signed into law a bill that forbids the routine shackling of pregnant women in and after labor, making … More
Embarazo no planificado y abuso por parte de sus parejas en mujeres jóvenes
Publicado por Rachel / del orginial en inglés Jan 28, 2010 OBOS is committed to expanding our audience and in this spirit we’ve … More
Emergency Contraception Still Not Easily Available to Young Women
The Center for Reproductive Rights has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the continuing prescription status of emergency contraception for young women, … More
Effects of Health Reform on Maternity Care
Although the just-passed health reform bill has generated considerable debate about abortion (see Christine's previous post), at least two other reproductive health components … More
Health Care Reform: How it Passed and What Comes Next
In case you slept through Sunday's exciting (no, really! it was!) health care debate on the House floor, here's a look at what … More
An Interview with Childbirth Connection’s Carol Sakala
Medscape, a website from WebMD targeted primarily to healthcare providers and professionals, has just published an interesting interview with Carol Sakala, PhD, MSPH … More
Vaginal Birth after Cesarean — What the NIH has to say
As many of our readers will already know, the National Institutes of Health held a consensus development conference last week on vaginal birth … More
Double Dose: What Will Happen to Healthcare Reform?; Stopping Campus Rape; Granny Midwife Margaret Charles Smith is Honored; and More …
On How a Bill Becomes a Law: The bill that will likely become the reconciliation bill on healthcare has been posted. Ezra Klein explains … More