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Beyond Roe and Toward Human Rights for Women

I think it is way past time to set a old new agenda for reproductive justice, rooted in human and civil rights. Clearly, the right to privacy is necessary but not sufficient. Read the full article here, or if you are having trouble downloading it, read it on Heartfeldt where you can see links and also tell me what you think about these ideas.

"Where the Hell Are All the Women?"

(Except for Sarah Palin, of course--we know where she is!) Read this article I wrote for the 9/08 Elle Magazine about why women do and don't run for political office. Women are 16% of Congress and Governorships, 10% of biggest city mayors, less than 1/4 of state legislators. Why? AZ Governor Janet Napolitano summed it up: "You can't win if you don't run." Read it All Here.

"The Incredible Shrinking Woman" Elle Magazine used my title "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" for a spread of essays that won a prestigious Front Page Award from the Newswomen's Club of New York.

Here's the lead-in to my Q&A with Elle.com: YOU DON'T CHOOSE—YOU LOSE
ELLE: What might the reproductive landscape look like in a decade?
Gloria Feldt: That depends on who's president, who's in control of Congress, who's on the Supreme Court, and who's in charge of state legislatures and sitting in the governor's seat. Because the Bush administration will have had eight years to fill the federal courts with antichoice judges, it's unlikely that the courts will protect what is left of Roe. This makes the electoral process more important than ever. What happens from here depends on each of us as citizens and voters.

See the whole Q&A at Elle.com.

The New York Times
Op-Ed Contributor Margaret Sanger’s Obscenity By GLORIA FELDT

WHEN you tour the Lower East Side Tenement Museum’s restoration at 97 Orchard Street, you walk through the experience of the immigrants who arrived in waves at the turn of the 20th century, often to live five or six to a tiny room. According to the 1900 census, the 18 wives in the Orchard Street building had given birth to 111 children altogether, of whom 67 were then alive.

A 40 percent infant and child mortality rate sounds shocking now. Back then it was the norm. Maternal mortality was 99 percent higher than it is today; 40 percent of those deaths were caused by infection, of which half resulted from illegal or self-induced abortion. Birth control was to revolutionize women’s health. But it would take a social revolution to get there.

For the rest of the article, please read the PDF or read it on NYTimes.com.

Press Room

Information for Journalists & Representative Media Clips

Gloria Feldt is a reknowned activist and expert on women, health, media, leadership, and politics from where the personal meets the political. A teen mom who became leader of Planned Parenthood, the world's largest reproductive health care provider and advocacy organization, she was dubbed "the voice of experience" by People Magazine. She's now a powerful independent voice, speaking up about her passions through her books, keynote speeches, and media commentary. Her website is GloriaFeldt.com and her frequently quoted blogs there are Heartfeldt Politics, Courageous Leadership, and Powered Women. Her most recent book, co-authored with Kathleen Turner, is the New York Times bestseller, Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life. Love, and Leading Roles. She's currently at work on a book about women's relationship with power to be published in fall, 2010.

Gloria Feldt photo credit: Maryanne Russell Photography

Gloria's Biography

"Gloria has lived the most incredible life story.”
—Cindi Leive, Editor-in-chief, Glamour Magazine

Journalists can book Gloria for media commentary here.

Television & Video

A Series of Clips from Interview with EmpowHer.com Women's Health Website

KAET-TV Horizon interview with Ted Simons

Interview with Samantha Ettus on ObsessedTV

On Ronnie Eldridge Show

Click To Play

On GRITtv with Laura Flanders

Is there a Republican civil war?

Speech and Media Clips: View a short composite of my speech and media clips.

CNN American Morning talking about what Obama needs to do to attract Clinton supporters

ChumTV (Canadian network) Interview The Canadians (rightly) can't understand America's obsession with abortion. Here, I explain the various factors underlying the debate in a very sensitive exploration of the subject.

On FOX News' The O'Reilly Factor, Gloria Defends a TV Ad on Condoms

I'm a SheSource Expert Media Commentator--See my SheSource page

Audio

Listen to Podcast of Gloria Interviewing Kathleen Turner at the 92nd St. Y

Listen to Gloria's Latest Podcast on Leadership: "In Chaos is Opportunity"

Listen to Gloria's Latest Podcast on Politics :"The Clash of Uncertainties"

KJZZ Public Radio Morning Edition: What Is the Status of Feminism Today?

NPR's Terry Gross interviews me on "Fresh Air" about my book, The War on Choice

TalkRadio 790 KABC-AM, Los Angeles/p>

LivewithLisa on presidential politics and more

WHYY: Gender, Race, and the Presidential Elections public radio's Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane.

Time to Fight Forward!
Dr. Riane Eisler interviews me on Women's Radio.
Gloria Feldt, former leader of the National Planned Parenthood Federation of America and recognized expert and activist on women's rights, discusses leadership, the pro-choice/pro-life debate and the upcoming presidential election. Listen here.

Gloria's Published Articles & Commentaries

The Daily Beast: "The Abortion-Controversy Hoax

On the Issues, "A Do Over for Reproductive Justice"

On the Issues, "To Run the World, Power Up Feminism"

See PBS.org "Head to Head: Debating Palin's Candidacy". I'm debating the qualifications, character, and treatment of John McCain's vice-presidential pick with Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN).

Truthout: Are You Happy With the Shape of your Bikini Wax?

My Huffington Post Blogposts- I'm a regular blogger on HuffPo, so check it out and chime in with your comments.

I contribute regularly to Women's eNews--check their archives for more commentaries, which are often republished by Alternet, Truthout, and others. Here are examples:
>> Egg Initiatives Crack Open the Case Against Women (PDF)
>> Hillary Gives Women a Mirror on Their Own Fears

New York Times: Margaret Sanger's Obscenity (PDF)

MORE Magazine: A Hillary Clinton Presidency

Elle Magazine: The Incredible Shrinking Woman (essay and web exclusive q and a)

Salon: Roe 35 Years Later

Obama's First 100 Days Report Card

George Tiller Needs More Than Candlelight Vigils

Penetrating Sotomayor's Judicial Philosophy

Op ed "What Obama needs to do to attract women's votes" in the Chicago Sun Times. The points are even more valid post-election.

Elle Magazine September, 2008: Where the Hell Are All the Women?

Beyond Roe and Toward Human Rights for Women

Read the full article here, or if you are having trouble downloading it, read it on Heartfeldt where you can also tell me what you think about these ideas.

My RH Reality Check Blogposts about reproductive justice

My WIMNs Voices Online Blogposts about media criticism

Women's Media Center Exclusives Here's an example:

>> An Auspicious DC Tea Part

>> Trading in "Barefoot and Pregnant" for Economic and Reproductive Justice

>>Life and Work: A Conversation for Women's History Month

My International Leadership Forum Blogposts Here's an example:
>>False Balance in the Media, part 1

See Books by Gloria Here

Including:

>Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles (co-authored with Kathleen Turner; Springboard, 2008, shown here in keeping with the edgy hairdo theme)

>The War on Choice: the Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back (Bantam, 2004)

>Behind Every Choice Is Story (University of North Texas Press, 2003)>

>And a selection of others to which I've contributed...

About or Quoting Gloria

Women's Media Center's "Salon with Jane Fonda": Front Doors Magazine

Gloria is one of Vanity Fair's "200 Women Leaders. Legends, and Trailblazers.

Planned Parenthood’s 25-year Plan Fast Company Magazine interview on how Gloria led a movement to create a bold new long term vision for the future.

International Leadership Forum Digest: Founder Dick Farson interviews Gloria on leadership

How a Teenage Mom Came to Lead Top Group for Reproductive Rights: Jewish Daily Forward

Photo: Sarah Michelle Geller presents Gloria Glamour Woman of the Year Award

Women's Right to Choose Hanging in the Balance: Jewish Woman

A Balancing Act, Modern Mom Magazine

Four Decades of the Birth Control Pill, WebMD talks to Gloria about the impact of the birth control pill
Arizona Republic: "Roe v Wade Remains Defining Issue"

Women's eNews: "Seven Who Will Not Be Stopped"

Belle Magazine: "Itinerant Activist"

Daily Collegian: "Speaker Calls for Public Health Crusaders"

About.com: "What 'Juno' Says About Teen Pregnancy, Abortion, and Choice"

Phoenix Woman: "Meet Gloria Feldt" (pdf)

Women's e-News: Clinton Turns Tables on Obama; McCain Nails It

C-M Life: Panelists Want View of Feminism to Change

Arizona Republic: Gloria's Send Yourself Roses Book Signings

Pink Magazine on The Glass Ceiling in Media.

Harvard Crimson: "Four Feminists Take on Harvard"

AP: "Feminists Sharply Divided Between Clinton,Obama"

The New Republic: "Life Sentence" : I tell a personal story about how John McCain abuses his power in this detailed article by Sarah Blustain about the Republican nominee for president

Women's eNews: Weddings Are Big Day for Extreme Dieting