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Press reports confirm that Dr. Regina Benjamin, Obama's choice for surgeon general shares the "President's views" on choice.
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Conscience clauses are becoming an increasingly popular mode of anti-choice legislation. While a bill in Louisiana represents a compromise position, bills pending in other states are more restrictive.
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In AT&T vs. Hulteen, the Supreme Court reverted to reasoning from an earlier ruling that discrimination against pregnant women doesn't count as discrimination against women.
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An important consideration related to who ultimately fills Souter's seat centers on what issues the Supreme Court would face in the near future.
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Justice Souter's retirement will mark the first time a pro-choice president has the opportunity to appoint a justice to the Supreme Court since 1994.
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By Kay Steiger, RH Reality Check April 27, 2009 - 7:00am
Protests from anti-choice activists continue to stall the nominations of Dawn Johnsen to Office of Legal Counsel and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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By Kay Steiger, RH Reality Check April 21, 2009 - 8:00am
After years of being on the defensive, a coalition of pro-choice groups in Illinois worked together to draft a comprehensive pro-active, pro-choice piece of legislation in their state.
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By Kay Steiger, RH Reality Check April 15, 2009 - 7:00am
At the Men Can Stop Rape conference in DC, a 40% male participant group brainstormed on evolving masculinity, gender relations, re-examining marital rape, and innovations coming from the federal government.
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Last week, North Dakota's Senate defeated legislation that would have defined a fertilized egg as a person. Perhaps most surprising was not that the legislation was defeated but how it was defeated.
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Across the country, in states red and blue, legislatures are taking steps toward mandating comprehensive, medically-accurate sexuality education for students.
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