“The world was riveted when Natalie Holloway went missing in Barbados last year. … In an equally riveting mystery, women have disappeared from the story of attacks on contraception. When the New York Times Magazine published a watershed story in early May, ‘The War on Contraception,’ the Times Web site noted it was their most e-mailed story of the day. Of course it was snapped up. What rational person can believe that any but crackpots could oppose using birth control to prevent pregnancy? I tore into the article hoping it would unearth and expose the true reproductive rights battle lines. This is a struggle often masquerading as a moral controversy. At its roots, however, it’s about sex and power; whether women will be allowed to keep striving for an equal place in society or confined, as much as possible, to the nursery.” (06/28/06)