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.
According to a recent Kaiser Health Tracking Poll conducted by Public Opinion and Survey Research Program, 66 percent of Americans agree with the federal government’s recent decision to include birth control in its list of preventative services. # The Department of Health and Human services recently included contraception in a list of preventive care under the Affordable Care Act. Because of this decision, women will have their birth control covered by their insurance without co-payments
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
The Food and Drug Administration under President Bush valued politics over science, a District Court said last year in ordering the agency to approve the morning-after pill for women 17 and older. The court also ordered the FDA to reconsider…
Pro-choice advocates in Washington are urging Congress and President Obama to repeal restrictions that prevent federal money from being used to provide abortions for poor women, a quarter of whom are forced to carry their pregnancies to term because they can’t afford an abortion.
President Obama has moved to rescind a Bush administration “midnight regulation” that would make it much more difficult for women to get information about and access to birth control, abortion and sterilization. As NMI reported, the rule had been opposed…
The Obama administration is now accepting public comments on a plan to ditch a Bush administration rule (pdf) that would have severely limited access to women’s reproductive health services.
As NMI noted earlier this week (and earlier this year), the Bush administration is considering enacting a last-minute rule that could make it much more difficult for women to get information about and access to birth control, abortion…
