Blogs Comment On Palin; USAID Cut Of Contraceptives To Marie Stopes; U.S. Abortion Rights; 'Born...

The following summarizes recent women's health-related blog entries. ~ "Women's Health: Yet Another Issue Sarah Palin Is Out of Touch On," Cecile Richards, Huffington Post: In the blog entry, Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, writes that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's (R) interviews this week with CBS News' Katie Couric have shown that the Republican vice presidential nominee is out of touch on many issues, including women's health. According to Richards, Palin's "answers on reproductive health issues, such as criminalizing abortion, exceptions for rape and incest and what exactly the morning-after pill is, were a rambling mix of contradictions and platitudes." Richards adds, "We thought it couldn't get more anti-choice and more extreme for women and for health care" than President Bush and Republican... [read full story]