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The Woods Scandal: Deafening Silence on the Health Risks of Infidelity

By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

January 12, 2010 - 7:00am

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Coverage of a celebrity couple's infidelity scandal is more than just a race for ratings – it is an opportunity to educate the public about the health risks and realities every couple faces when confronted with infidelity.

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In Missouri, Advocates Remain on Red Alert

By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

January 6, 2010 - 7:00am

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In Missouri, advocates are preparing for another round of attacks on reproductive health care while dealing with the fall out from anti-choice legislation passed in previous sessions.

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Struggle in a World of Privilege: A Mad Men Salon

By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

August 21, 2009 - 7:00am

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Even as we anticipate watching the women who work at Sterling Cooper struggle with changing gender roles, we are watching that struggle take place in a privileged world.

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HIV Transmission through Pre-Chewed Baby Food?

By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

August 20, 2009 - 8:00am

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Could pre-chewed baby food be a vector for HIV transmission? A report in Pediatrics suggests that it may -- but when thinking about this phenomenon, we need to avoid the knee-jerk "Ewwww" reaction that a ScienceNews reporter had.

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"Mad Men" Salon: America's Struggle with Race, Shaken Not Stirred

By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

August 14, 2009 - 7:00am

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Mad Men presents an exploration of race, class, and gender in the not-so-distant past that challenges the notion that all was well back in the day and keeps this fan coming back for more.

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Weighing in on the Surgeon General’s Weight

By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

July 28, 2009 - 7:00am

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We are so focused on weight as an indicator of health that we ignore the fact that thinness is not equivalent to being physically fit nor is a higher-than-average weight necessarily an indicator of being "unhealthy."

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Pay It Right

By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

June 30, 2009 - 8:00am

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If we're going to do health care reform we need to do it right -- lest we expand the historic failure of government-provided healthcare for Native Americans nationwide.

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Sotomayor, Race and Gender: An Abortion Debate by Proxy

By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

June 12, 2009 - 8:00am

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Charges that racism and sexism might influence Judge Sotomayor's decision-making are a proxy for the far right's concerns about her positions on choice, discrimination, and immigration rights.

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Missouri Legislature: Coerced Pregnancy, Fine; Voluntary Abortion, No Way

By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

April 7, 2009 - 7:00am

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A Missouri bill would make physicians criminals for helping women obtain an abortion "with knowledge" that the woman has been "coerced" and would prohibit the woman from consenting to an abortion as the "victim of a coerced abortion."

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Looking Beyond the (D): New Anti-Choice Dems Join Congress

By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

February 23, 2009 - 8:00am

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Pro-choice initiatives from Prevention First to zeroing out abstinence-only funding will need support from socially conservative Democrats. That's why we need to understand the aims of anti-choice Dems.

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