Written by Tara Murtha for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . Pennsylvania is the another front in the war on women. As we saw with 2011’s targeted regulation of abortion providers (TRAP) bill , the Republican-dominated Pennsylvania legislature routinely ignores protests from medical associations and [...]

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 . Trent Franks & other men, gunning for abortion again. Wednesday, an all-male panel of House Judiciary Committee members, led by Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), passed a 20-week abortion ban . The bill, HR [...]

Written by Adele M. Stan for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . As the Senate Armed Services Committee meets Wednesday to take up its version of the Defense Authorization bill, senators will likely devote at least as much verbiage to discussion of sexual [...]

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 Defense of Marriage Act There are several different possible outcomes of upcoming Supreme Court decisions. In 2007 Edie Windsor married Thea Spyer after already being together for 40 years. When [...]

Written by Alice Welbourn 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 following article based on a presentation by Alice Welbourn at the Women Deliver Conference, which took place earlier this month in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Is there a better way to we [...]

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 . Over the past three years, more than 60 lawsuits have been filed in federal court challenging the Affordable Care Act contraceptive coverage benefit. These legal challenges are based on a [...]

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 Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must immediately comply with an earlier order by U.S. District Court Judge Edward Korman [...]

Written by Annamarya Scaccia 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 June 23 of last year, Lakisha Briggs’ ex-boyfriend, Wilbert Bennett, went to find the 33-year-old mother of two at her house in Norristown, Pennsylvania, which she rented with a Department [...]

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 . See all our coverage of Beatriz here. Yesterday in El Salvador, Beatriz (a pseudonym) had an abortion. The Catholic Church and the international anti-choice movement are desperate to deny this [...]

Written by Dr. Suzanne Poppema 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 Dr. George Tiller here.

I am a family doctor and I was a proud colleague of Dr. George Tiller’s. It is difficult to believe four years have [...]

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 . See all our coverage of Beatriz here. Petition His Holiness Pope Francis for Beatriz’s life here. Update: The Washington Post  notes that Beatriz will be given access to Cesarian-section birth . – MyFDL Editor In a stunning decision made [...]

Written by Sarah Posner 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 subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Thursday on a bill that would impose an unconstitutional nationwide ban on abortions after 20 weeks post-fertilization. Four witnesses sat at the [...]

Written by Amanda Marcotte for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . While I suspect most teen sexting is relatively harmless, most of us are rightly concerned about incidents in which naked pictures of teenagers get forwarded and distributed without their consent. In [...]

Written by Sarah Seltzer for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . Kathryn Joyce’s new look at the adoption industry, The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption , contains within its pages true horror stories. Perhaps most shockingly, the book details [...]

Written by Kathy Bougher 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 Beatriz here. Petition the El Salvadoran President and Supreme Court for Beatriz’s life here.

On Wednesday, May 15 the Supreme Court of El Salvador will hear testimony from Beatriz, [...]

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

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. — Niccolo Machiavelli

At a gathering of Catholics in his archdiocese last year, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, the archbishop of New York, [...]

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 . There are two roles anti-choicers like to play for which they are ill-equipped. First, they like to play doctor. And second, they like to play God. In doing so, they [...]

Editor’s Note: The Justice Department filed suit to block Judge Korman’s ruling .

The Obama administration said Wednesday that girls under 15 should not have access to the most common morning-after contraceptive pill as the Justice Department filed a notice to appeal a judge’s order that would make the drug available without a prescription for girls and women of all [...]

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 . Like many RH Reality Check readers, I have been closely following New York City’s fear- and shame-based campaign against teen pregnancy . The print ads include pictures of crying babies with captions like “Honestly [...]

Written by Bridgette Dunlap 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 week, the government filed an emergency motion in the New York Archdiocese’s lawsuit against the contraceptive coverage mandate, requesting that the court halt proceedings and dismiss the case. The emergency [...]