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The following summarizes selected women?s well being related blog entries.
~ ?The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Is At It Again,? Steph Sterling, National Women?s Law Center?s ?Our Blog?: Sterling criticizes comments by a member of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops about a provision with the well being reform law (PL 111-148) that allows states ?to make far more ladies eligible for loved ones preparing services ? contraception, breast and cervical cancer screenings and other preventive well being care ? through the Medicaid program, without having to get special permission from the federal government to do so.? In a recent Wall Street Journal article, USCCB?s Richard Doerfinger said the provision reflects ?a very dismissive view of ladies: the reproductive system is the only part of you we?re interested in, and our interest is only to make sure it doesn?t produce.? Sterling writes that the truth of the matter is that ?contraception has helped ladies ? millions of us ? lead happier, healthier, fuller lives.? She adds that USCCB?s ?faux-feminism is trying to make it harder and more expensive for ladies to get contraception.? Sterling concludes, ?It?s 1 thing to oppose birth control. But it?s especially galling to oppose birth control and claim that it?s for [women's] own good? (Sterling, ?Our Blog,? National Women?s Law Center, 8/19).
~ ?Medicaid Expansion May Increase Access to Birth Control,? Amie Newman, RH Reality Check: By allowing states to expand access to no-cost contraceptive services and supplies through Medicaid, the wellness reform law enables them to ?actually do what works: provide access to preventive reproductive and sexual health care,? Newman writes. For example, ?Wisconsin has announced that [it] will ? expand the state?s existing program, offering totally free household preparing and other reproductive wellness services including birth control, Pap smears, vasectomies and sexually transmitted infection testing to those who qualify,? Newman says. According to Lon Newman, executive director of Wisconsin?s Household Preparing Health Services, the expansion is a ?great victory? for maternal and child wellness because it allows low-income ladies greater access to quality, affordable care. Amie Newman suggests that readers visit belowthewaist.org, where they can watch videos of interviews and speeches from ?key players? in the Medicaid expansion, including Lon Newman, Advocates for Youth President James Wagoner, and Reps. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Lois Capps (D-Calif.) (Newman, RH Reality Check, 8/18).
~ ?Fetuses as Slaves? I Don?t Think So,? Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check: A recent ?move by Personhood Colorado continues the anti-choice tactic du jour of co-opting black American history in an attempt to make a case against women?s reproductive rights,? Merritt writes. Personhood Colorado is using the strategy to promote its ballot initiative ? Amendment 62 ? which would grant state constitutional rights ?to every human being from the beginning with the biological development of that human being.? Merritt notes that 1 radio spot released by the organization features a fictional slave who urges Colorado residents to support the amendment to declare fetuses people and not property. According to Merritt, likening a fetus to a slave ?begs the question ? who is the master?? She continues, ?In the world of fetal ?personhood? girls are slave masters, and our reproductive rights hold the fetus in bondage.? However, she adds, ?The reality is that Amendment 62 will not bring about fetal emancipation, ? [but] would grant the government complete control over women?s bodies? (Merritt, RH Reality Check, 8/19).
~ ?The Feminist Establishment Rejects the Mama Grizzlies,? Emily Bazelon, Slate?s ?XX Factor?: The ?question of whether Sarah Palin and the ?Mama Grizzlies? can call themselves feminists? has been a topic of significantly debate, and now ?[t]he feminist establishment is weighing in, and its answer is no,? Bazelon writes. EMILY?s List on Tuesday announced a new campaign ? ?Sarah Doesn?t Speak for Me? ? in response to Palin?s endorsement of conservative, antiabortion-rights female candidates she calls Mama Grizzlies. In a recent New York Times online discussion, columnist Gail Collins and author Stacy Schiff mostly focused on Palin?s positions on issues like child care and school lunches. According to Bazelon, abortion is ?absent or underplayed ? in much of this debate.? She writes that it is ?the pink elephant in the room: After all, feminists have stressed the importance of option for women?s freedom for decades. And of course there?s still an argument that access to legal abortion is also crucial to opportunity for women.? She continues, ?Think how significantly some women?s lives would constrict if they really had to carry every pregnancy to term. But that?s not where most feminists want to draw the line that separates them from Palin and [Nevada's Republican U.S. Senate nominee] Sharron Angle and the rest,? Bazelon writes. ?Palin and her grizzlies aside, the feminist agenda still has a long way to go,? she concludes (Bazelon, ?XX Factor,? Slate, 8/19).
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