A new movement seeks to award special certificates to fetuses that are stillborn, but pro-choice advocates worry that this is yet another step toward fetal personhood that could endanger abortion rights.
Allison Stevens
Allison Stevens is Washington bureau chief of Women's eNews.
Race, Gender, and the Politics of Segregation
What the Supreme Court’s school desegregation ruling could mean for women’s rights.
Do Low-Income Women Have a Right to Choose?
The cost of abortion makes it inaccessible to many women — which is why the Dems should be pushing to repeal the ban on public funding for it.
Gender Contender
An old joke in Washington has it that every member of the Senate sees a future president when he or she looks in the mirror. Actually, make that he. Once again, it appears that the Democrats will entertain any number of pretenders to the presidential throne from the Senate — among them John Kerry of […]
Reversal of Fortune
“My feet are tired, but my soul is inspired,” a buoyant Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) proclaimed at her victory party last Saturday night, citing a variation of an old civil-rights saying. It was a fitting tribute to the state’s African-American community, whose members defied projections and turned out in droves last week, socking in the […]

