When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and a half-century of settled abortion rights two years ago, Donald Trump said it would be bad for […]
Tag: reproductive health care
Warren Hern is one of the country’s few late-term abortion doctors
by Robin Abcarian Warren Hern is every bit as intense as you would expect of someone who has been threatened with death for most of his career. […]
Contraception bill vote previews next fight over rights
It is infuriating as well as alarming that the U.S. Senate on Wednesday failed to pass the Right to Contraception Act, a straightforward bill that would guarantee […]
Let voters decide on abortion directly
We’re not fans of special legislative sessions (which you already know if you regularly read our editorials). However, every once in a blue moon, they can be […]
Fears about ‘Ozempic babies’ show how woeful women’s health care is
by Mary McNamara The historic failure of medical research to acknowledge that women’s bodies differ from men’s has a new catchphrase: Ozempic babies. According to recent reports, […]
Results are in: W.Va. among worst states for women
As we like to say in West Virginia, thank goodness for Mississippi (and Alabama). Otherwise, the Mountain State would be dead last in everything. As it stands, […]
IVF: Compromise isn’t out of reach
Belatedly, Alabama lawmakers have passed a bill protecting access to in vitro fertilization. The measure came two weeks after the state Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos […]
Abortion access is popular. Legislators want to ban it entirely
There is a vocal group of extreme anti-abortion West Virginians, but despite their outsized presence in the Capitol’s halls, they are a statistical minority. Several polls show […]
Feb. 11 letters to the editor
Lawmakers can do more to protect women I fail to understand how our Legislature continues to get it so wrong! The women of West Virginia should […]
Fleischauer moves on
Former West Virginia Delegate Barbara Evans Fleischauer announced this week that she will not be running for office this year. Instead, she has taken a position with […]
