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Blogs Comment On Health Reform, Maternal Mortality, Other Topics
The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “Q&A with Carole Joffe,” Katha Pollitt, The Nation’s “And Another Thing”: Pollitt interviewed Carole Joffe — a sociologist and author of “Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients and the Rest of Us” — about the health reform law’s potential effects on reproductive rights and health…
Health Reform Law Prohibits Gender Rating, Offers Other Benefits For Women’s Health
Under the recently signed health reform law (HR 3590), health insurance companies will no longer be able to charge women more than men for the same insurance policies, ending a practice known as “gender rating,” the New York Times reports…
Blogs Comment On Health Reform Law, Access To Emergency Contraception
The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “Health Reform: Where Women Stand To Gain,” Deborah Kotz, U.S. News & World Report’s “On Women”: Kotz writes that she was “surprised to see women’s reproductive rights groups use words like ‘betrayal,’ ‘onerous,’ and ‘unacceptable’ in reaction to” the passage of the health reform law (HR 3590)…
Health Reform Legislation Expected To Have Major Benefits For Women
The health reform law (HR 3590) that President Obama signed Tuesday could have an “especially large” impact on women in the U.S., who make the majority of family health care decisions and generally live longer than men, Forbes Woman reports. According to the Department of Labor, women make an estimated 80% of health care decisions for their families…
Opinion Pieces Examine How Health Reform Affects Coverage For Women’s Services
The American Prospect, Boston Globe and Washington Post recently published opinion pieces and an editorial discussing how health reform legislation would affect health insurance coverage for abortion, prenatal care and other services that affect women…
Unmarried Older Women Twice As Likely To Lack Health Insurance, Study Shows
Older women who are divorced, separated or widowed or who have never married have twice the uninsured rate of their married peers, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research…
Blogs Comment On Obama Health Reform Proposal, Reproductive Rights In Kenya
The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “Obama Presents A Health Care Plan But Abortion Issue Remains Unsettled,” Sarah Kliff, Newsweek’s “The Gaggle”: President Obama’s health reform proposal is “a huge step forward for the Democrats,” but abortion coverage “promises to become a linchpin issue in the future negotiations,” Kliff writes…
Blogs Comment On College Abstinence Clubs, Abortion Coverage Bans, Other Topics
February 19, 2010 — The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “The Chastity Ring-Around,” Lena Chen, The American Prospect: Student-run abstinence groups “have cropped up on college campuses across the country,” with pre-marital chastity “marketed to students as the ‘true feminist’ ideal,” Chen writes…
Blogs Comment On Health Reform Abortion Provisions, Obama’s Budget Proposal, Other Topics
The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “Health Care’s Abortion Problem,” Nick Baumann, Mother Jones’ “Mojo”: In a “fascinating e-mail” to Chris Frates of Politico on Feb…
Blogs Comment On Health Reform Abortion Provisions, Obama’s Budget Proposal, Other Topics
The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “Health Care’s Abortion Problem,” Nick Baumann, Mother Jones’ “Mojo”: In a “fascinating e-mail” to Chris Frates of Politico on Feb…