Videos Discuss Global Family Planning, Abortion Myths, Supreme Court Confirmation

The following summarizes selected women’s health related videos. Family Planning Enables Economic Progress: In a video and commentary on the Daily Beast, actress Ashley Judd describes how access to contraception enabled a Tanzanian woman to provide economic stability and educational opportunities for her daughters…

Health Groups Urge Confirmation Of CMS Nominee Berwick

More than 130 health advocacy groups on June 16 sent a letter to lawmakers urging them to swiftly confirm Donald Berwick as the next CMS administrator, CQ Politics reports. President Obama nominated Berwick on April 19 (CQ Politics, 6/18)…

Senate Judiciary Comm. Chair Leahy Predicts Supreme Court Confirmation This Summer

There is “no question” that a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens will be seated in time for the court’s fall term, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the New York Times reports. Leahy predicted that the Senate would confirm a new justice by the summer (Chan, New York Times, 4/11)…

Videos Discuss Obama Nominees, Contraceptive Methods, Health Reform Prospects

The following summarizes selected women’s health-related videos. Olbermann Talks Nominees: Political commentator Lawrence O’Donnell joined “Countdown” host Keith Olbermann to discuss the implications of the Senate’s confirmation of 27 Obama administration nominees…

Opinion: Uganda Anti-Gay Bill; Shah Confirmation

Columnist Michael Gerson in a Washington Post opinion piece writes of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009 being considered by the country’s parliament “that would impose new and harsher penalties on homosexuality, including life imprisonment and capital punishment. It also would force pastors and others to report homosexuals to the authorities…

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