Clover Simon

OPINION: National Women's Health Care Week is a perfect time for women to take charge of their own health by scheduling a checkup. Yet the very health centers they visit and the services many depend on are under attack.

I am deeply disappointed that the Anchorage Daily News would endorse a Denali KidCare compromise that ignores the health of uninsured pregnant mothers.

Who could possibly believe that by denying women breast exams and cancer screenings that they would be working to improve life in the United States?

Now that the dust has settled on the primary election, I wanted to share some reflections on the Parental Notice Initiative, Measure 2, from Planned Parenthood's perspective.

It has been 37 years since the Supreme Court rendered its landmark decision guaranteeing a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy. Abortion existed before the decision known as Roe v. Wade but the choices for women then were incredibly expensive or extremely dangerous.