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By Andy Birkey, New Journalist Fellow October 20, 2009 - 9:35am
Sen. Amy Klobuchar is one of several female Democratic senators demanding that health insurance disparities that impact women be eliminated as part of the health reform packages being debated in Congress.
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By Andy Birkey, New Journalist Fellow October 1, 2009 - 4:18pm
Rep. Michele Bachmann warned that the health insurance reform package currently being debated by Congress would set up “sex clinics” in schools where students “taken away” to have abortions. Where does she get these things?
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By Andy Birkey, New Journalist Fellow October 1, 2009 - 3:18pm
Rep. Michele Bachmann will be headlining a fundraiser in November for controversial ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide (YCRBYCH).
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By Andy Birkey, New Journalist Fellow September 2, 2009 - 7:00am
In Minnesota, lack of health insurance, lack of clinics, and factors like poverty, geographic isolation and even extreme winters all reduce rural women's access to health care.
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By Andy Birkey, New Journalist Fellow August 6, 2009 - 7:00am
An analysis of anti-abortion campaign donations finds that Rep. Michele Bachmann is one of the country’s top earners — and she’s delivered for her contributors on that issue.
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By Andy Birkey, New Journalist Fellow July 2, 2009 - 8:00am
Abortions declined in Minnesota in 2008 for the second straight year. Reproductive health advocates point to expanded access to birth control as the reasons for the decline.
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By Andy Birkey, New Journalist Fellow May 22, 2009 - 8:00am
Matthew Derosia was convicted late last week for ramming his car into the entrance of a Planned Parenthood clinic St. Paul in January during an anti-abortion protest. The Army of God and other anti-choice groups have risen to his defense.
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By Andy Birkey, New Journalist Fellow April 20, 2009 - 7:00am
Minnesota’s largest anti-abortion group, Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, says state-funded anti-abortion programs are responsible for a drop in the number of abortions among low-income women.
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By Andy Birkey, New Journalist Fellow March 16, 2009 - 7:00am
North Dakota's "egg-as-person" bill would afford "preborn persons" the "privileges and immunities" of state citizenship.
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By Andy Birkey, New Journalist Fellow February 27, 2009 - 8:00am
Minnesota’s anti-abortion forces are hoping a slate of bills will restrict access to abortion. Four bills have been offered this session, from outright bans on the procedure to data-collection mandates.
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