It was by no means my first rally. At the tender age of 11, I had vehemently declared myself pro-choice and have been actively involved in political organizing and demonstrating ever since. My family, a fairly moderate group of people, never quite understood what the draw was for me, but it never really mattered. I can still remember my first rally vividly, the 2004 March...

Today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned companies advertising the Lap-Band, a surgical weight loss device, that their ads are misleading and must be stopped and corrected. The Network is glad the FDA stepped up and took action against the Lap-Band’s deceptive marketing campaigns, but it is not enough – this dangerous device is still being marketed to tens...

Last week, I attended the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) 139th Annual Meeting and Exhibition. It was quite overwhelming to browse through the hundreds of sessions occurring simultaneously, throughout the four-day conference. You can imagine the breadth of topics that were covered among the thousands of presentations in the conference.  A central theme that...

Recently, there have been an unprecedented number of legislative attacks on reproductive services for women in the US. To name a few harrowing occurrences in this fiscal year alone, the conservative House of Representatives moved to eliminate Title X funding (an act passed by Nixon in 1970 for comprehensive family planning and related preventive reproductive services) and other...