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How to Host a Birth Control Clinic in 3 Easy Steps

Published: February 4, 2012

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Crossposted with permission from Law Students for Reproductive Justice. Fordham University is a Jesuit school. Because of this, students are not able to get birth control prescribed to them at the on-campus health centers. Fordham LSRJ wanted to provide Fordham students with a way to have access to doctors and birth control prescriptions. Here’s […]

No Religious Exemption for Birth Control Coverage

Published: February 3, 2012

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Despite enormous pressure from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Obama Administration recently decided not to broaden the religious exemption for contraceptive coverage under the Preventive Care package of the Affordable Care Act. This demand for additional exemptions, would have denied millions of American women contraceptive coverage, including […]

Would You Like an Unplanned Pregnancy With that Burrito?

Published: February 3, 2012

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Cross-posted with NARAL’s Blog for Choice. President Obama’s decision to make sure health plans cover birth control without a copay was one of the most significant advances for women’s health in decades. Now, most American women will have health insurance that covers contraception, regardless of where they work. The […]

The Greatest Advance for Women in a Generation

Published: January 31, 2012

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Cross-posted with NPA. I attended a health policy conference last week where the buzz was women. The question on everyone’s mind was: Why aren’t American women angrier that every last one of the Republican candidates for president has threatened to repeal a law that has brought the greatest advance for […]

Reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act

Published: January 31, 2012

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. For the eighth #HERvotes blog carnival, our coalition of women’s groups is joining forces for the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey found alarming rates of sexual violence, stalking, and domestic violence. One […]

Universities and Support of VAWA

Published: January 31, 2012

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. I am very passionate about issues of social justice. One issue in particular that I am very passionate about is ending teen dating violence and other forms of interpersonal violence. I currently work as a coordinator for a Teen Dating Violence Prevention Speaker’s Bureau where I get our speakers […]

Protecting Unemployment Benefits

Published: December 8, 2011

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Welcome to the seventh #HERvotes blog carnival on the need to protect women and employment during these tough economic times, with a focus on the importance of extending Unemployment Insurance (UI) before the December 31st deadline. It is critical that Congress acts before the end of this calendar year […]

Looking for Jobs that Don’t Exist Is Hard Work

Published: December 8, 2011

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Cross-posted with the National Women’s Law Center. The deadline to extend federal unemployment benefits (UI) is rapidly approaching, but it is still not clear when Congress will get around to addressing this extremely critical issue. Meanwhile, some Members of Congress have indicated that they would vote against a bill […]

Unemployment, Congress, and People Like Me

Published: December 8, 2011

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Cross-posted with the National Women’s Law Center. $297.00 That was the size of my weekly unemployment insurance benefit from the District of Columbia. Two hundred ninety-seven dollars and zero cents. I signed up to start receiving UI benefits shortly after being laid off on Monday, November 15, 2010, appx. […]

Good Education. Good Experience. Still Unemployed.

Published: December 8, 2011

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Cross-posted with Moms Rising. I am an RN who specializes in utilization review. I had worked for the same company since 1999. Unfortunately, as the dawn of the economic crisis broke, that company was swallowed up by another company, and then that was sold to another. After years of losing […]