by Robin Reed, Online Outreach Manager,
National Women's Law Center
The New York Times’ Economix blog explored several of the reasons health care reform is such an important issue for women.
Rachel posted at Our Bodies Our Blog about a new study that found an increase in the number of medical abortions and said, “The large geographic overlap between facilities that provide surgical abortion and those that offer mifepristone means that, in many cases, women are able to choose the type of early abortion procedure they prefer,” but that “mifepristone has not brought a major improvement in the geographic availability of abortion.”
The University of Maryland, which currently has 15 women’s sports teams and 12 men’s teams, may need to eliminate some teams to cut expenses due to the economic crisis (via Title IX Blog).
Two American women won the Nobel prize for medicine for their work on chromosomes and cell division. So far, a total of 10 women have won the prize.
Courtney posted at Feministing about the ongoing allegations by some that the economic crisis has hurt men more than it has women.


