International Actions
UNFPA
http://www.planetwire.org/details/2937
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2002/12036.htm
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=15660
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/17238.pdf
"FY 2004 Funding for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA)," Press Statement by Richard Boucher, Spokesman, Washington, DC, delivered July 16, 2004
Global Gag Rule
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/20010123-5.html (NOTE: In this statement the President says, "It is my conviction that taxpayer funds should not be used to pay for abortions…" Federal law has prohibited the use of federal funds to pay for abortions since 1973.)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/08/20030829-3.html http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/legislative/sap/108-1/s1426sap-s.pdf
The New Litmus Test
http://www.usaid.gov/business/business_opportunities/cib/pdf/aapd05_04.pdf
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/tgr/08/1/gr080112.html
Letter to George W. Bush, May 18, 2005
http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/aosi_v_usaid/
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=34941 http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,1692457,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/brazil/story/0,12462,1475966,00.html
International Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/17227.pdf
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/28779.pdf (page 16)
http://www.popact.org/news/views/2006/02_06_Budget.htm
http://www.unfpa.org/supplies/family.htm
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/60297.pdf
Beijing at 10
Proposed U.S. amendment to the Draft Declaration of the 49th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, February 22, 2005
U.S. fax "Talking Points: Commission on the Status of Women 2005," March 2, 2005
"The Cheese Stands Alone," Katha Pollitt, The Nation, March 3, 2005
"U.S. Drops Effort on Abortion Proviso at U.N. Meeting on Women," Warren Hoge, The New York Times, March 4, 2005
ICPD
http://www.planetwire.org/details/4602?PHPSESSID=3cc36670453c0ea80823435effa18370 http://www.planetwire.org/files.fcgi/4597_USPosition.pdf
Speech made by Assistant Secretary of State Arthur E. Dewey - December 16, 2002, U.S. conditional proposal - December 14, 2002
"U.S. Stance on Abortion and Condom Use Rejected at Population Conference," Associated Press, December 17, 2002
Essential Medicines
http://www.crlp.org/pub_fac_abortion_laws.html, Center for Reproductive Rights http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/unsafe_abortion/index.html, World Health Organization
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1464589,00.html, The Guardian
Iraqi Women
The Nation, "Antifeminists Hit Iraq," November 15, 2004
Adolescents
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020527&s=ireland20020516
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/914/context/archive
CEDAW
Letter from U.S. Department of State to Senator Joseph Biden - February 7, 2002
Letter from U.S. Department of Justice to Senator Joseph Biden - July 26, 2002
http://www.womenstreaty.org/senateupdate.htm
Conference on HIV/AIDS
Science Magazine, Vol. 304, Issue 5670, 499-500, 23 April 2004
Refugee Women
Letter from eight organizations to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell - March 10, 2003 Letter from the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children - June 2003 Letter from the Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium - August 11, 2003; "U.S. Cuts Off Financing for AIDS Program, Provoking Furor," The New York Times, August 27, 2003
Domestic Issues
Administration Plan A
http://www.aap.org/pressroom/ECstatement.pdf
Washington Post article
August 31, 2005 Reproductive Health Technologies press release: "Senior FDA Official Steps Down Over Announcement to Stall Plan B OTC Approval"
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=32989
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=33075
Department of Injustice
http://www.aclu.org/ReproductiveRights/ReproductiveRights.cfm?ID=18992&c=225
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=2&DR_ID=32321
http://www.acog.org/departments/dept_notice.cfm?recno=17&bulletin=1625
http://www.ama-assn.org/meetings/public/annual05/417a05.pdf
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2287/context/archive
Medicaid
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/tgr/08/1/gr080104.pdf http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/2005/02/22/index.html
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/medicaid-IB-Gold.pdf
Federal Marriage Promotion
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2005/hhs.html
Avis Jones-De Weever, "Marriage Promotion and Low-Income Communities: An Examination of Real Needs and Real Solutions," Institute for Women's Policy Research, June 2002, available at http://www.iwpr.org/
http://people-press.org/reports/print.php3?ReportID=150
http://www.cbpp.org/2-10-04wel.pdf
http://www.nwlc.org/pdf/CCDBGReauvhorization2004.pdf
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/pdf/Compassion-07.pdf
The So-Called "Partial-Birth" Abortion Ban
PL 108-105 and http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1465
Department of Justice
Text of Letter from Several Judiciary Members to Attorney General Ashcroft Regarding Enforcement of Partial Birth Abortion Ban (11/6/03) http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/agpbaenforceltr11603.pdf
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2003/November/03_opa_606.htm
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/print_report.cfm?DR_ID=22178&dr_cat=2
Fetal Rights
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Bush-Fetus-Rights.html
Science
Erica Goode, "Certain Words Can Trip Up AIDS Grants, Scientists Say," The New York Times, April 18, 2003
Donald Kennedy, "Editorial: An Epidemic of Politics," Science, January 31, 2003 (Vol. 299), p. 625
Oliver Burkeman and Alok Jha, "The Battle for American Science," The Guardian, April 10, 2003, p. 4
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=22428
"U.S. Nobel science winners worry about Bush policies toward research", Associated Press, Mattias Karen, December 8, 2005.
Title X
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/gr050111.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2004/pdf/budget/hhs.pdf
http://www.4parents.gov
Abstinence-Only Sex Education
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2004/pdf/budget/hhs.pdf
"Report Shows Abstinence-Only Education Programs Not More Effective," Associated Press, January 4, 2004
http://www.aclu.org/ReproductiveRights/ReproductiveRights.cfm?ID=18280&c=30
http://www.aclu.org/reproductiverights/sexed/24239lgl20060223.html
Prescription Drugs
Politics vs. Public Health in 2001 - Congress, the Bush administration and Reproductive Health Rights, National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, January 2002
NCI
NCI Factsheet: Early Reproductive Events and Breast Cancer
http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/ere-workshop-report
HHS
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=16063
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=24278
Global Health Meeting
"HHS Withholds Funds for Global Health Meeting," Ceci Connolly, Washington Post, April 27, 2004
"White House to Pull Support for Conference," Charles Hurt, Washington Times, April 26, 2004
Title IX
http://www.nwlc.org/pdf/TitleIXCommissionTalkingPoints_3-20-03.pdf
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1469
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/title9guidanceadditional.pdf
Judicial Nominations
Samuel Alito
Senate vote
Claude A. Allen
"Jesse's Soldiers," John Wagner, The News & Observer, December 22, 2002, page A-1
"Bush to decide whether to resubmit Virginian for 4th Circuit judgeship," David L. Greene and Julie Hirschfeld Davis, The Baltimore Sun, December 11, 2003.
D. Michael Fisher
WITF Debate Transcript, Mike Fisher and Ed Rendell (Oct. 24, 2002)
"Fisher Speaks at Event" - Pittsburgh Post Gazette, June 30, 2002, available at http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_west/20020630wdigestp9.asp
Brief Amicus Curiae of Virginia, et al., as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners, Stenberg v. Carhart, 530 U.S. 914 (2000) (No. 99-830)
18 Pa. Cons. Stat. §§ 3201-20
http://www.ppsp.org/aca.html
505 U.S. 833 (1992)
Priscilla Owen
"Bush Renominates Pickering, Other Judges," New York Times, January 8, 2003
Charles Pickering
"Bush Renominates Pickering, Other Judges," New York Times, January 8, 2003
Bush Seats Judge, Bypassing Senate Democrats," New York Times, "January 17, 2004
NFPRHA Report article, "Bush Says 'Happy Valentine's Day' by Resubmitting 20 Judicial Nominees Not Approved in Last Congress," February 28, 2005
Bill Pryor
http://www.commondreams.org/news2003/0409-14.htm
"Senate Panel Approves Pryor Nomination," Associated Press, July 23, 2003
NFPRHA Report article, "Bush Says 'Happy Valentine's Day' by Resubmitting 20 Judicial Nominees Not Approved in Last Congress," February 28, 2005.
Janice Rogers Brown
San Francisco Chronicle article
NFPRHA Report article, "Bush Says 'Happy Valentine's Day' by Resubmitting 20 Judicial Nominees Not Approved in Last Congress," February 28, 2005
Dennis Shedd
http://www.now.org/issues/legislat/nominees/shedd.html
"The Secret History of Judges", New York Times editorial, July 31, 2002 http://www.kaisernetwork.org/reports/2000/02/kr000204.3.htm
Other Nominations
Tom Coburn
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2002pres/20020301a.html
Alma Golden
http://www.catchum.utmb.edu/resources/SAGE_Advice_files/SAGEAdvc.ppt
W. David Hager
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2002/NEW00861.html
http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,361521,00.html
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050530&s=mcgarvey
John M. Klink
http://www.planetwire.org/details/1655
Letter from Assistant Secretary Paul Kelly to U.S. representative Carolyn Maloney - January 31, 2003.
Rev. Herbert H. Lusk, Jr.
http://www.pacha.gov/
http://www.standforafrica.org/
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid27710.asp
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/08/AR2006010801069.html
Charlotte Ponticelli
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/19419.htm
Ellen Sauerbrey
http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/6712/
http://www.worldcongress.org/wcf3_spkrs/wcf3_sauerbrey.htm
http://www.genderhealth.org/sauerbrey.php
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/01/20060104-3.html
Anita Smith
http://www.pacha.gov/
http://www.childrensaidsfund.org/
http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/2696/1/84?TopicID=2
http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20050215110525-05210.pdf
For more information, contact Whitney Welshimer at 212-979-8500 or wwelshimer@iwhc.org.
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