Reproductive health

Reproductive health is a general term covering birth control, contraception, and family planning. It also may include the issues of abortion, reproductive rights, and right to life, as well as the pro-life movement.

Related Links

 * Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
 * Global Reproductive Health Forum Web Site, Harvard University.
 * Daily Reproductive Health Report, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
 * Reproductive Health Technologies Project.
 * Ann Rose's Ultimate Birth Control Links.
 * Birth Control/Family Planning, Calgary Health Region.

Related SourceWatch Resources

 * eugenics
 * globalization
 * Planned Parenthood
 * population control
 * Unborn Victims of Violence Act
 * U.S. presidential election, 2004
 * women's rights

Opinion

 * "I Had an Abortion"
 * Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History, "Pro-Choice and Antiabortion Movements": "Paul M. Weyrich, founder of the Heritage Foundation and the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, was the first leader to make opposition to abortion a litmus test for candidates. Richard Viguerie, the fund-raising and direct-mail pioneer, used the abortion issue to raise millions of dollars for conservative efforts. Kevin Phillips, who founded the Conservative Caucus, mobilized the conservative grassroots."

Legislation

 * Pro-Life Press Releases: Abortion News (re Legislation 1997-2004), United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
 * 104th Congress: Analysis of 1996 ACU Ratings of Congress, conservative.org.
 * 105th Congress: Rolling Back Women's Rights: Vote Analysis Reveals Anti-equity Bias, NOW, October 1998.
 * U.S. Congress Roll Call Votes on Abortion and Other Right-to- Life Issues During 1997 and 1998, National Right to Life Committee, October 1998.
 * 106th Congress: National Right to Life Scorecard on Abortion and Other Right-to-Life Issues, U.S. House of Representatives 1999-2000, National Right to Life Committee, October 10, 2000.
 * 107th Congress: Votes on Abortion (Preliminary) (as of August 1, 2002).
 * 108th Congress: S. 3: "A bill to prohibit the procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion". For the purposes of S. 3, "Partial-birth abortion" is defined as "an abortion in which the person performing the abortion: (1) deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the mother's body, or, in the case of a breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the mother's body; and (2) performs the overt act, other than completion of delivery, that kills the partially delivered living fetus."

Articles & Commentary

 * David Espo, "U.S. Senate votes to ban 'partial-birth' abortions in late pregnancies," AP, March 13, 2003.
 * Robin Toner, "House Bans an Abortion Method," The New York Times, June 5, 2003: On June 4th, "The House overwhelmingly approved legislation tonight to outlaw what abortion opponents call partial birth abortion, putting the anti-abortion movement on the brink of a major victory."
 * Judy Keen and Kathey Kiely, "Bush: USA isn't ready for total abortion ban," USA Today, October 29, 2003: "President George W. Bush, who campaigned as an opponent of abortion, said Tuesday that Americans aren't ready to support a complete ban. ... Next week, he will sign into law the first federal restriction since the Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973. The new law will outlaw a procedure that opponents have labeled 'partial-birth abortion.' ... Bush has never called for a ban on all abortions."
 * Tom Raum, "Abortion Bill May Trigger Election Fight," White House AP, November 6, 2003: "President Bush's signing of a ban on a certain type of abortion helps him shore up re-election support within his party's conservative core. It also appears to be triggering some unintended political consequences, from mobilizing abortion-rights activists, who consider it the first attack on the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion, to setting up a divisive election-year battle over the court's next vacancy. ... Given the strong passions surrounding any abortion question, the president's signing of a bill Wednesday that outlaws what critics call partial-birth abortion could have political ramifications far beyond the medical and ethical issues at stake."
 * Peter Wallsten, "If Ax Falls on Roe, It May Also Split GOP," Los Angeles Times, July 4, 2005. Re retirement of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.