Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Birth control prices soar on college campuses

  Published: July 26, 2007, 9:56 am

  Tags: Reproductive Rights

  affecting their health and rights on campus. 22 year-old Susan Maly at the University of Iowa says, "This is the one thing that many females on campus are getting from student health...It felt like we were a target."

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• File under: Boo-fucking-hoo

  Published: July 27, 2007, 2:33 pm

  Tags: Reproductive Rights

  Anti-choice pharmacists are suing Washington state over a regulation that requires them to sell emergency contraception. Thanks to Alisha for the link!

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• Careful, or you'll regret not reproducing.

  Published: July 27, 2007, 6:36 pm

  Tags: Reproductive Rights

  says, "It's an issue of reproductive choice and freedom, to be sure. But making medical and ethical judgments like whether to tie a woman's tubes (or whether someone is prepared for a sex change) is a doctor's right and, arguably, an essential part of the job description." Um, what? Is it a medical professional's job to "protect" women from

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• The sponge is back!

  Published: July 30, 2007, 4:30 pm

  Tags: Reproductive Rights

  The Today sponge, now put out by Synova Healthcare Group, is back on the market. And it has a new "look." The new package is meant to have a more modern look: instead of a pink flower and a conservative-looking typeface, the box has drawings of hip-looking women, playful typography, and colors that Synova officials call fuchsia and wine.

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• Who's allowed to reproduce?

  Published: July 30, 2007, 5:30 pm

  Tags: Reproductive Rights

  Radical Doula has an important post on the flipside of this debate. As she noted in comments to my previous post on young women being denied tubal ligations, I think that you will find that for women of color, low income women, or immigrant women, this issue is completely different. Rather than having trouble getting sterilization surgeries, they

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• How much jail time should women get for having an abortion?

  Published: July 31, 2007, 1:14 pm

  Tags: Reproductive Rights

  the National Institute of Reproductive Health's new campaign, "How much time should she do?", and points out how anti-choicers are hesitant to tell folks how much jail time they think women should get if abortion were to be illegal, and they got one anyway. "They never connect the dots," says Jill June, president of Planned Parenthood of

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• Ohio bill: Women need men's permission to have abortions

  Published: August 1, 2007, 11:41 am

  Tags: Reproductive Rights

  Oh this is rich. A group of legislators in Ohio are pushing a bill that would give men a say in whether or not a woman can have an abortion. "This is important because there are always two parents and fathers should have a say in the birth or the destruction of that child," said [Rep. John] Adams, a Republican from Sidney. "I didn't bring it up

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• More from the "who has the right to reproduce" files

  Published: August 3, 2007, 11:46 am

  Tags: Reproductive Rights

  and other infertility rights groups have worked hard to change this, as have [Assisted Reproductive Technology] clinics. Yet defining ART as a medical treatment is a bit forced, because if you use the classic situation of a fertile woman with an infertile male spouse, she never had a fertility problem to begin with, notes Charo. A

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• The Attacks on Dr. Tiller Continue

  Published: August 6, 2007, 4:31 pm

  Tags: Reproductive Rights

  Dr. George Tiller, one of the few late-term abortion providers in the U.S., has pleaded not guilty to 19 misdemeanor charges brought upon him by the state of Kansas. Dr. Tiller has a long history of being harassed by anti-abortion activists. He has faced protests at his clinic incredibly frequently, other trumped-up criminal charges, physical

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• China massages its message on forced abortion

  Published: August 7, 2007, 4:25 pm

  Tags: Reproductive Rights

  The Chinese government is trying to put a better PR gloss on it's notoriously harsh one-child policy by changing the way it talks about the restrictions, issuing 190 "acceptable messages." Now-forbidden slogans:

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• Minessota Increases Access to Affordable Contraception

  Published: August 8, 2007, 4:10 pm

  Tags: Reproductive Rights

  assist non-profit reproductive health clinics like Planned Parenthood in providing more and better services And there's no question that it's a great thing for low-income women who have trouble staying on birth control regimes due to cost. Even better, the law also allows nurses to dispense contraception under the supervision of a

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• Illinois Court: Pharmacists Can Refuse to Dispense EC

  Published: August 9, 2007, 6:35 pm

  Tags: Reproductive Rights

  Last week, an Illinois court ruled that, despite the law, pharmacists can refuse to dispense emergency contraception. The state passed a law in 2005 that requires all pharmacies to dispense EC. As a result, Wal-Mart (and other companies) have disciplined pharmacists that refused to follow the rule. Then came the lawsuits and the bad news. U.S.

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• Pro-Choice Poetry Slam and Thanks

  Published: August 10, 2007, 6:07 pm

  Tags: Reproductive Rights

  Since this will be my last post at Feministing, I would like to give a quick thanks to everyone who made it such a great experience. A big thanks to all of the Feministing women for asking me to guest-blog, to all of them and Miriam for being such great co-bloggers, and a special thanks to Ann for being so helpful. Also, thanks to everyone who

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• Judge in Tiller case has anti-choice history

  Published: August 13, 2007, 11:37 am

  Tags: Reproductive Rights

  (So I'm kind of freaking out that there is WiFi on the ferry from Martha's Vineyard, but pleased that I can bring you at least one post today!) It seems that the judge in the witch-hunt, uh--I mean case, against Dr. Tiller was once a "staunch anti-abortion state lawmaker." The judge who will decide the case Sedgwick County District

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• Free IUDs and vasectomies to low-income patients in NZ

  Published: August 15, 2007, 5:32 pm

  Tags: Reproductive Rights

  A New Zealand health company is offering its low-income patients vasectomies and IUDs -- free of charge. A recent study found that many women became pregnant (and later had abortions) while on a waiting list for tubal ligations, so this was the health care provider's response. They're offering the IUD instead of tubal ligation because the IUD

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