Black anti-abortion activists decry 'womb lynching'

Black anti-abortion activists decry 'womb lynching'

NYC Targets Black Women for Breastfeeding | Womens eNews

NYC Targets Black Women for Breastfeeding | Womens eNews

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Women's Voices Still Needed in Health Care Reform

While we are breathing a big "sigh" of relief that the Health Care Bill is on it's way to passing, it is more important than ever that women turn their attention to the details of the bill. With proposed expansions to children's health and the elimination of heinous pre-existing conditions clauses, the bill does have some high points. However, for those of us concerned with women's reproductive health and the health of women of color and poor women, there are some deeply disturbing provisions. See below:

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/03/23/health-care-bill-womens-health-wins-losses-challenges

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/03/19/reproductive-justice-latinas-struggle-continues-0

Race & Medicine in history: Use of Henrietta Lacks' cervical cells without her consent

Author Rebecca Skloot's giving a talk in Indy tonight.

NYT: Second Opinion

A Lasting Gift to Medicine That Wasn’t Really a Gift

By DENISE GRADY

Published: February 2, 2010

Without her family’s knowledge, doctors used cancer cells from Henrietta Lacks to develop vaccines and life-saving drugs, a case examined in a book that looks at the issue of “tissue rights.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/health/02seco.html

Lessons from the Navajo Nation about respecting the birth process

Lessons at Indian Hospital About Births

NYT, By DENISE GRADY
Published: March 6, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/health/07birth.html

'Precious' Pushes Past Controversy to Oscar Night | Womens eNews

...combined with the heightened attention to Af-Am women's obesity related to 'Precious...' (see prev. post)

'Precious' Pushes Past Controversy to Oscar Night | Womens eNews

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Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/03/03/let-s-move-mississippi

What are the implications of this campaign for the construction of African American women's/girls embodiment?

Sister Song

Sister Song Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective

NIH "Repro Health Hub" for Women of Color

NIH "Repro Health Hub" for Women of Color

Intriguing.