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What Were They Thinking?

January 27, 2009 - 9:00am

The new HHS "conscience" rule is a prescription for health care chaos.

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HHS "Conscience" Rule: What About End-of-Life Pain Care?

By Barbara Coombs Lee

January 12, 2009 - 9:00am

Most reactions to the HHS conscience rule focus on impending damage to reproductive services. But the rule will surely obstruct and delay good care in many instances, increasing the suffering of dying patients and their loved ones.

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News & Commentary

1 West Virginians For Life Skirts Lobbying Laws, But Courts Publicity

By Megan Carpentier on March 12, 2010 - 9:00am | 2 comments

Lobbyists for West Virginians for Life have failed to register in the state as required by a law intended to foster transparency. Is it ok to violate "man's laws" in the interest of "God's work?"

Get Real! He Said He'd Wait, But He Won't Stop Asking

By Heather Corinna on March 12, 2010 - 9:00am | 0 comments

What do you call it when someone asks the same question over and over again hoping to get a different answer? Pressure.

Sex: What Is It?

By Kathleen Reeves on March 12, 2010 - 9:00am | 39 comments

A survey from the Kinsey Institute tackles the murky, but vital, question of What Is Sex? and the answers underscore how changeable our definitions may be.

2 Banning Abortion: The First Step Toward Theocracy

By Amanda Marcotte on March 11, 2010 - 8:00am | 129 comments

Banning abortion should engender the same reaction as forcing women to wear the hijab, forcing kids to say the rosary in school, or banning non-kosher food from restaurants -- an outrageous violation of religious beliefs.

Once a Cesarean, Rarely a Choice

By Gina Crosley-Corcoran on March 11, 2010 - 8:00am | 4 comments

The National Institutes of Health convened a conference to discuss a hotly debated topic--vaginal birth after cesarean section. Feminists are working to ensure that the voices of mothers are heard.

On Stupak and VBAC: Women's Reproductive Choices As Bargaining Chips

By Rebecca A. Spence on March 11, 2010 - 8:00am | 2 comments

Whether in regard to access to VBAC or to abortion, legislators, like physicians, have an ethical and professional duty to protect public health and respect women’s rights, not to bow to lobbies who wish to own them.

3 Pro-Choice Candidate Will Challenge Stupak in Primary

By Jodi Jacobson on March 10, 2010 - 12:35pm | 46 comments

Connie Saltonstall, a former county commissioner, plans to run against Stupak for the Democratic nomination of Michigan’s First Congressional District. She told RH Reality Check "I am without a doubt pro-choice."

Facing the Real Threats: Achieving a Meaningful National HIV/AIDS Strategy for Women

By Naina Khanna on March 10, 2010 - 8:00am | 1 comment

Although HIV is considered a chronic manageable condition in the U.S., AIDS-related illnesses continue to be the leading cause of death among African-American women aged 25 to 34 years old.

Serious Weaknesses Plague HIV/AIDS Programs For US Women

By Brook Kelly on March 10, 2010 - 8:00am | 1 comment

US policy still ignores the deep structural challenges faced by women affected and infected with HIV in the United States.

4 Recognizing Abortion Providers

By Dr. Linda Prine on March 10, 2010 - 11:00am | 8 comments

Fourteen years ago, March 10 was chosen as the National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers to honor those who continue our work despite the harassment meant to drive us away and to mourn those lost to violence.

The Billboard Circus and the Abortion Wars

By Carole Joffe on March 10, 2010 - 8:00am | 2 comments

The abortion wars rage relentlessly on, in the United States and elsewhere, and the only lesson to be drawn from recent federal and state legislative action is that the wars show no signs of abating.

Forty 4 Forty: Making Lemonade for Choice

By Lon Newman on March 10, 2010 - 9:30am | 1 comment

Picketers holding anti-abortion signs in front of our clinic seek to confuse the public about our services. We don't provide abortions. But the picketers underscore the true meaning of "anti-choice."

5 Wreckonciliation

By Rebecca Sive on March 9, 2010 - 8:00am | 17 comments

To coin a cliche on International Women's Day, I have to ask: Where's the beef? American women are being told that our most fundamental right--to control our reproductive destiny--should be of no consequence in health reform.

(SLIDE SHOW) Focus on the Family Emerges From Dobson's Shadow

By Wendy Norris on March 9, 2010 - 8:00am | 0 comments

James Dobson has officially stepped down as chair of Focus on the Family. However, Dobson won't be out of the public eye nor will the global evangelical media empire's chief, Jim Daly.

Stoking Fire: Anti-Choice Leader Arrested for Trespassing and Stalking

By Eleanor Bader on March 9, 2010 - 8:00am | 5 comments

Flip Benham, head of Operation Save America, was arrested twice in February, once by a church who agrees with his anti-choice method but not his tactics.

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