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Precious, Stupak, and the Erasure of Women's Lives

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

November 20, 2009 - 7:00am

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With the Stupak amendment literally and symbolically stripping women of equal status, the movie "Precious" presents, in grim detail, the way race, class and bias render a woman's body simultaneously invisible and subject to abuse.

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The Media on Stupak-Pitts: Theatrical, Not Factual

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

November 11, 2009 - 7:00am

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In the midst of foaming-at-the-mouth at the political give-and-take in health care reform, many prominent pundits neglected to properly inform the public that Stupak's language allowed for a major incursion into women's rights.

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The "Law and Order" Abortion Disaster and The Wasteland of TV

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

October 28, 2009 - 6:00am

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The folks at NBC's long-running legal franchise Law & Order must have thought they'd garner praise for their episode on abortion. The show, however, was anything but balanced.

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"No Fat Talk" Week: Cutting Fat Talk from Our Verbal Diets

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

October 26, 2009 - 6:00am

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"Fat Talk" is a ritual with a special prominence between women, in groups or pairs, and makes it more difficult to have a rational, emotion-free relationship with diet and exercise. And that's why we need to get rid of it.

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Desperate Non-Housewives: Dueling Fantasies On TV

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

October 9, 2009 - 6:00am

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This season, instead of "Desperate Housewives," TV has brought us a slew of desperate single or career women having mid-life crises, such as "Cougar Town" and "The Good Wife."

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"Twilight Sleep:" Is The Past Prologue for Today's Debates Over Birthing Choices?

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

September 29, 2009 - 6:00am

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Mad Men fans were shocked recently as Betty gave birth in a "twilight sleep" while hallucinating and tied to the bed. This once common practice was ended through the kind of advocacy we need to expand birthing choices today.

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How to Approach the Mega-Misogynists Among Us?

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

September 23, 2009 - 6:00am

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In the pop-cultural realm feminists are kept busy uncovering the co-opting of our own "empowering" rhetoric to perpetrate potent sexism, looking out for so-called Nice Guys and women who claim to be liberated but sell an old-school lifestyle.

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Trying to Reverse Time, At Any Cost

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

September 10, 2009 - 8:00am

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"Youth Knows No Pain" is a somber, but fairly agenda-free HBO documentary that follows several Americans into the spa, the botox seat, and mostly to the plastic surgeon's office in an effort to turn back time on their faces and bodies.

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"Lady-Mags"--Love Them, Flaws and All, or Leave Them?

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

September 4, 2009 - 7:00am

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The paradox of women's glossies: They largely acknowledge our progress and rights in terms of the workplace, sexual freedom and reproductive rights, but only skim the surface of the sexist dynamics and expectations that inform those issues.

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Kourtney's Choice

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

August 28, 2009 - 7:00am

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In America, abortion is always a choice "someone else" makes. But this is a myth and we need to face reality. Those who choose "the other option" aren't selfish, desperate or "someone else." They are our friends, our neighbors and, often, us.

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