Breast Cancer Patients Declare Victory as Supreme Court Bars Patenting of...
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: In a major victory for women’s health, the Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that isolated human genes may not be patented. The case concerned the firm Myriad Genetics’ patent on genes...
View ArticleEve Ensler on New Memoir & Confronting Gender Violence with Congolese...
AARON MATÉ: Well, we spend the rest of the hour with someone who has fought tirelessly for women’s rights here in the U.S. and around the world, Eve Ensler. She is the award-winning playwright and...
View ArticleTexas Showdown: Anti-Abortion Bill Fails After Protesters Fill Capitol to...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: We go now to Texas, where Democratic lawmakers and pro-choice demonstrators battled into the early hours of this morning to successfully block a bill that would have shuttered nearly...
View ArticleThe People's Filibuster: Texas Governor Revives Anti-Abortion Bill Defeated...
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We end today’s show with this week’s showdown over abortion rights in Texas. Pro-choice advocates and Democratic lawmakers waged a battle into the early hours of Wednesday morning to...
View ArticleRenewed Showdown over Texas Anti-Choice Law Highlights State-by-State Battle...
AMY GOODMAN: We turn to Texas, where a legal battle is being waged over the future of abortion access. On Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott asked a federal appeals court judge to immediately...
View ArticleReligious Rights for Corporations? Supreme Court Takes Up Challenge to...
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: On Thursday, the Supreme Court announced it will wade into the controversy over whether for-profit corporations must cover birth control in the health insurance they provide for their...
View ArticleOne Billion Rising: Eve Ensler & Kimberle Crenshaw on Global Movement to End...
AMY GOODMAN: We end today’s show with this new worldwide movement that grew out of the global activist initiative called V-Day to stop violence against women and girls. One Billion Rising for Justice...
View ArticleSupreme Court: Hobby Lobby Can Refuse to Cover Birth Control
In a blow to women’s access to contraception, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Hobby Lobby, and similar closely held corporations with religious objections to birth control, can refuse to include birth...
View Article"It's a Basic Healthcare Issue": Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards Reacts...
AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting from the Global Media Forum in Bonn, Germany. But first, this national news in the United States. In a closely watched case, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled most...
View ArticleWomen's Health over Politics: Courts Block Laws Threatening Abortion Clinics...
AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to major developments in women’s access to abortion. Over the past three days, federal judges have blocked a pair of new laws that could have forced the closing of the majority...
View ArticleBad Policy, Bad Medicine: Anti-Choice Law Leaves Vast Swaths of Texas with No...
AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting from San Antonio, which is now the last outpost for legal abortion in South Texas. There are three known facilities providing abortions here in San Antonio, but none...
View ArticleAbortion as a Social Good: Author Katha Pollitt Pens New Vision for...
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report, as we turn now to our next guest. We continue to discuss the crisis in abortion access as we turn to a new book that...
View ArticleA Little Shout of Joy: Supreme Court Lets Abortion Clinics Reopen, Easing...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: We turn now to Texas, where abortion clinics shuttered by a court ruling earlier this month have been allowed to reopen. This comes after the Supreme Court blocked part of an...
View ArticleWomen on Waves: Meet the Dutch Physician Who Defied Abortion Bans by Bringing...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: The new U.S. Congress opened last week with the largest Republican majority in the House since the 1940s. Within a few days, lawmakers in both congressional chambers had already...
View ArticlePart 2: Film "Vessel" Follows Doctor Who Took Safe Abortion to the Seas & the...
In Part 2 of our interview, Diana Whitten, director of "Vessel," talks about how Brazilian women first discovered the medication misoprostol could be used to induce abortion, and how Dr. Rebecca...
View ArticleOne Billion Rising Honors "Revolution" as New Report Highlights Threats to...
AMY GOODMAN: Climbing Poe Tree performing "Awaken" at the Artistic Uprising here in New York City last Saturday, part of One Billion Uprising. This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and...
View ArticleWith House Passage of Extreme 20-Week Abortion Ban, GOP Continues Assault on...
AMY GOODMAN: We begin with the latest on the erosion of reproductive rights in the United States. Last week, the Republican-controlled House approved a measure that would ban most abortions after 20...
View Article"A Sea Change": With 100 Women in Congress, Lawmakers Go on Offensive with...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: In a landmark push to turn back the record tide of anti-choice restrictions, pro-choice lawmakers have introduced a bill to expand insurance coverage of abortion. The Equal Access to...
View ArticleExposed: The Faces and Fake Names of the People Behind Planned Parenthood...
AMY GOODMAN: I want to turn to who David Daleiden is, of the Center for Medical Progress, the group responsible for attacking Planned Parenthood. This is Daleiden speaking on Fox News. DAVID DALEIDEN:...
View ArticleAre Undercover Attacks on Planned Parenthood Part of a Broader Effort to...
AMY GOODMAN: The Senate is planning to vote as soon as Monday to strip Planned Parenthood of $500 million in federal funding. The vote comes as Planned Parenthood is coming under fire from anti-choice...
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