Written by Chloë Cooney for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . The recent arrival of Chinese human rights advocate Chen Guangcheng has  focused the world’s attention  on the scourge of coercive reproductive policies in some countries. Now more than ever, U.S. foreign assistance should be [...]

Written by Editor-in-Chief Jodi Jacobson for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post .

This article was updated at 12:41 pm, Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012.

Yesterday I attended a meeting of pro-choice colleagues working to ensure women throughout this country get safe, compassionate abortion care. [...]

Written by Melanie Tom & Laura Jiménez for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . This article is one in a series published in collaboration with our sister organization, Strong Families .

“Safety and security don’t just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. [...]

Written by Jessica Mason Pieklo for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . The state of Arizona is near the top of states looking to dramatically expand religious privileges as a means of curtailing women’s reproductive rights and redefining the relationship between women [...]

Written by Kirsten Moore for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post .< They lied to state legislators about flame retardants. They distorted the science about the effectiveness of flame retardants. They manipulated firefighters, some of our most trusted public servants. And they have harmed [...]

Written by Jenny Dodson for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . The vicious attacks on women’s health to which we’ve grown so accustomed on the national and state stages are trickling down to the local level, as municipal and county governments get [...]

Written by Sharon Stapel for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post .

See all our coverage of the 2012 VAWA Reauthorization  here.

There’s a big secret about the bill to address the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, introduced by Representative Sandy Adams (R-FL), that’s no [...]

Written by Mony Ruiz-Velasco for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center provides legal services under the Violence Against Women Act to hundreds of victims and their children each year. We are appalled at the immigration provisions [...]

Written by Erika Anonymous for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . My name is Erika.  I came to the United States with my parents when I was six years old and I have been here ever since. I have lived in fear [...]

Written by Rep. Jan Schakowsky for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . Congresswoman Schakowsky delivered these remarks on a call with reporters and others last week. Her comments are reprinted here with permission. I want to thank the National Immigrant Justice Center and [...]

Written by Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . A few weeks ago, I found myself in the back of a rental car on the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, heading towards a gap in the border fence near a [...]

Written by Amy Levine for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . Last week, Lifetime (“television for women” as they say) premiered a new show called 7 Days of Sex, which promised to get couples out of a sex rut and fix their marriage in [...]

Written by Tanya Castle for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . On April 26th Canada’s Parliament debated M-312, a motion that calls for the formation of a special committee of Parliament to review whether the definition of a “human being” as described in [...]

Written by Vyckie Garrison for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . Ever wonder what goes on inside the small minds of fundamentalist Christian men? Want to know how they justify their blatant anti-woman policies and practices? Are they for real? Do they [...]

Written by Martha Kempner for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . See all our coverage of Heritage Keepers Abstinence Education here. This week RH Reality Check has been reporting on the Obama administration’s decision to add Heritage Keepers , an abstinence-only-until-marriage curriculum, to its list of evidence-based [...]

Written by Robin Marty for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . On May 1st, a group of about 50 people gathered in Fargo, North Dakota. Their intent? To try and “shut down” the only clinic in the state that provides pregnancy terminations, [...]

Written by Nynia Chance for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . Birth should never be about control, but there are those who are working very hard to make it so.  There are those who are doing their level best to usurp control [...]

Written by Susanna J. Smith for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post .< North Carolina polls are open for early voting in the primary election, and the rights of unmarried couples are being put to a public referendum. I voted against North Carolina’s [...]

Written by Debra Hauser, Monica Rodriguez, Elizabeth Schroeder and Danene Sorace for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . Sometime this month, an updated list of “evidence-based” teen pregnancy prevention programs was endorsed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and  posted [...]

Written by Martha Kempner for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . When Julia Roberts pulled a strip of colorful condoms out of her boot in her break-out roll as a prostitute in 1990’s  Pretty Woman and declared “I’m a safety girl,” I breathed [...]