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 presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.). "But let's face it -- with Sarah Palin, John McCain has outdone himself," Richards writes, concluding, "Women voting for McCain-Palin is like chickens voting for Col. Sanders. This is not a risk we can afford to take" (Richards, Huffington Post, 10/2).

~ "Update: More on USAID's Demand that African Governments Halt Contraceptive Supply to Marie Stopes," Emily Douglas, RH Reality Check: Douglas interviews Samantha Guy, deputy director of the British family planning group Marie Stopes International, about the impact of the State Department and USAID's notification to six African governments that the governments should stop providing U.S.-funded contraceptives donated to Marie Stopes. According to Douglas, USAID claims that "by virtue of working with" the United Nations Population Fund in China, Marie Stopes "runs afoul of the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, which bars U.S. funding for organizations that engage in coercive abortion and involuntary sterilization…