I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
During Monday night’s CNN/Tea Party GOP debate, Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann took aim at Gov. Rick Perry’s 2007 executive order requiring middle school girls to be vaccinated against the human papilloma virus (HPV), the most frequent sexually transmitted disease…
Of the approximately 15 Republicans who have either announced or hinted a run for president in 2012, the abortion-rights policy group NARAL Pro-Choice has identified the 12 most prominent potential contenders as presenting a threat to women’s access to abortion and family-planning services.
Most Americans favor abortion consent laws and bans on late-term abortions but oppose bans on abortion clinic funding, according to a new Gallup public opinion poll.
Sparked by the FDA’s recent announcement that cigarette packaging and advertisements will come with more in-depth, graphic warning labels starting September 2012, the group Students Students for Life of America has started a campaign to pressure the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to have graphic warning labels apply to abortion. According to the group’s site, the Catholic Coalition of New Mexico is a cosponsoring organization.
Right to Life New Mexico is distancing itself from a controversial anti-abortion billboard that appeared in Alamogordo over the weekend. RTLNM is looking to have its name removed from the sign.
The newest issue of the Catholic pro-choice magazine Conscience raises several questions about the current administration’s stance on abortion-rights issues.
Both Texas and Oklahoma are considering limiting access to RU 486 — a pill that is used to induce early labor and end a pregnancy.
Recently proposed federal and state family-planning spending cuts would disproportionately hinder low-income Latinas’ access to reproductive care, said several women’s reproductive care
A new measure, signed into law by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Tuesday, allows the biological father of a fetus — or the mother’s parents, if the mother is underage — to press charges against the person who administers the procedure if it was sought because of the fetus’ race or sex.
The House voted Friday to block federal funding to Planned Parenthood, passing 240 to 185. The amendment has been added to the Continuing Resolution (H.R. 1) to fund the federal government through September. If the resolution goes into law, the 95-year-old health care provider will lose funding from the federal government, all of which goes to family planning and reproductive services under Title X, and none of which goes to funding abortions.
New Mexico has the second-highest rate of teen pregnancy in the nation, a ranking consistent with years past, shows a new report released yesterday. The report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses preliminary data from 2008 to…
During the campaign season for the 2010 midterm elections, anti-abortion groups are attacking vulnerable Democrats’ support of the comprehensive health care reform bill — arguing the new law will funnel taxpayers’ money into coverage for abortions, even though legal scholars, health care analysts and even some Republican politicians say the law does no such thing.
A Christian student group called “Relentless in Roswell” says officials at Goddard and Roswell high schools in that southeastern New Mexico city stopped them from distributing two-inch rubber fetus dolls earlier this year, the Albuquerque Journal reports.
School officials reported…
Planned Parenthood is organizing a rally of abortion rights supporters in Albuquerque this Friday. The rally comes after a controversial anti-abortion rights group, Operation Rescue, moved into Albuquerque and ramped up protests at local clinics.
After Wichita abortion doctor George…
New Mexico apparently played a role in the Obama administration’s recent decision to ban most abortion procedures covered under a new federal health care program that began this month.
On July 1, New Mexico, like most other states, launched…
Oh hey! Australia has a lady prime minister! But the Christian Science Monitor reports: “A formidable political operator, she has been the subject of endless commentary: about her hairstyle, her fashion sense, her dislike of cooking and her…
Ella, a new emergency contraceptive that’s more effective than the existing drug, Plan B, was endorsed today by a Food and Drug Administration’s advisory panel. That move clears the way for approval by the agency, which, as The New…
A new emergency contraceptive under review by the Food and Drug Administration, called Ella, is safe and effective, according to a staff report released Thursday. That determination bodes well for approval of the drug, which is described as twice…
The controversial anti-abortion group Operation Rescue has announced it is sending two “missionaries” to set up a satellite office in Albuquerque. One of them, Henry “Bud” Shaver, was arrested in 2007 after entering Dr. George Tiller’s church and…
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) were widely used as flame retardants in furniture, carpets, and plastics until 2004.
Now, two new studies published in the public health journal Environmental Health Perspectives suggest PBDEs may impair women’s fertility and…
