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New Hope for Progress Among U.S. Delegates to UN Meeting

Women have been stymied for years in efforts to achieve U.S. ratification of CEDAW, the UN treaty to eliminate discrimination against women. Now, meeting at the UN, U.S. women hope to regain influence in establishing rights for women around the world.
The theme of the 54th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status [...]

The Time Is Now To Pass Pro-Choice, Comprehensive Health Care

“This is not a bill about abortion, this is about health care reform,” said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to the audience of Good Morning America on Tuesday.
Easier said than done, Mr. Gibbs. For the past six months, the health care reform process has become a venomous tug-o-war over women’s choice in exchange for [...]

O’Reilly Factor: Women’s Media Center Shout-Out to NCAA

Last week, the NCAA — the major governing body of college sports — yanked a Focus on the Family banner ad from its website due to the group’s homophobic agenda, which conflicts with the NCAA’s policy of inclusion. WMC President Jehmu Greene appeared on the O’Reilly factor last night to discuss and opened with “The [...]

SisterSong Campaign Against CBS Billboards and Georgia Legislation

During February, SisterSong and other organizations have campaigned against anti-abortion advertising targeting Black women throughout the State of Georgia with billboard campaigns. Then, the companion legislation, HB 1155, the Pre-natal Non-discrimination Act (The Sex and Race Selection Bill) was introduced in the GA House. 80 of the billboards were erected and CBS Outdoor Advertising has [...]

NCAA Rejects Focus on the Family Ad

This week, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) – the major governing body of college sports – yanked a Focus on the Family banner ad from its website amid concern that the group’s agenda conflicts with the NCAA’s policy of inclusion. As the LA Times reports, the NCAA made the decision after some of its [...]

Repro Rights Watch at Health Care Summit

Not Under the Bus is closely monitoring today’s Bipartisan Health Care Summit today for any means by which the proposed bill works to rollback women’s access to reproductive choice.
When: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Where: The Blair House in Washington, DC
Watch: The meeting will be open to the press and streamed at WhiteHouse.gov/live
The Huffington Post is also watching closely, [...]

Health Care Reform—Obama’s Challenge

By Megan Carpentier
Obama meets with Republicans today in a health-care summit. Women who helped put him in office expect him to step up and lead—on both access to quality care and access to abortion.
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi allowed Bart Stupak’s anti-abortion amendment to the health care reform bill to come to a vote in [...]

Cosmetic Vaginal Surgeons Clueless

By Angela Bonavoglia
At a “first-ever” conference on what they hope is a growing field, surgeons showed an appalling indifference to how women experience sexual pleasure.
Some 150 gynecologists, urogynecologists and plastic surgeons met last month to observe, in bloody still shots and loops of video, the signature ways that the fathers of vaginal cosmetic surgery—and they’re [...]

Georgia Legislation Threatens Reproductive Rights

SISTERSONG HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE IN OPPOSITION
TO COLLECTIVE OPPOSES HB 1155
THE SEX AND RACE SELECTION BILL
WHO: SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective OPPOSES House Bill 1155 – The Sex and Race Selection Bill. Speakers will include reproductive justice organization leaders, civil rights leaders, faith-based leaders, local legislators, and local community members. SisterSong, headquartered in Atlanta, [...]

WMC Statement on CBS Airing of Focus on the Family’s Super Bowl Ad

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Rebekah Spicuglia, Media Director
Women’s Media Center
(office) 212-563-0680; (cell) 415-290-2970
rebekah@womensmediacenter.com
February 7, 2010 (New York, NY) – The Tebow Super Bowl ad has aired, and as expected, it is a benign telling of the Tebow family story that attempts to hide Focus on the Family’s true anti-choice, anti-woman, and homophobic agenda.
We respect Pam Tebow’s choice [...]