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February 3, 2010 - 9:00am

As a regular columnist for On Common Ground, I'm glad and grateful for the opportunity to foster reciprocal understanding and cooperative dialogue. But have we?

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Randall Terry: Faux-Life Leader

By Mary Krane Derr

December 15, 2009 - 9:00am

If he truly merited the term “pro-lifer,” Randall Terry would condemn violence against abortion providers as an act of immense disrespect for life and pledge to take action against it. While disagreeing with pro-choicers, he would refuse to demonize them.

Pro-Life Means Guaranteed Maternity Care for All

By Mary Krane Derr

November 4, 2009 - 8:00am

As a prolifer, I recognize another dimension of my belief is to guarantee maternity care for all; something that concerns pro-choicers, too, for different but often overlapping reasons.

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Published under: Maternal Health

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How to Stop the Abortion War Killings

By Mary Krane Derr

September 30, 2009 - 7:00am

Pro-lifers and pro-choicers in the U.S. are bickering over whose side has the most martyrs and whose has the most blood on its hands. Yet, there are ways both sides can respond together to help stop the abortion war killings.

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Pro-Life, Pro-Contraception & Pro-Tim Ryan

By Mary Krane Derr

July 23, 2009 - 8:00am

As a longtime pro contraception prolifer, I cannot stay quiet about Rep. Tim Ryan's expulsion as a Democrats for Life of America advisory board member. This brouhaha shows up some rather severe but instructive barriers to common ground.

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Published under: Contraception

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What the First Wave of Feminism Can Teach the First Wave of Common Ground

By Mary Krane Derr

July 9, 2009 - 8:00am

Prolifers and prochoicers will differ on how much they can relate to early feminist views on abortion. Yet, both can lay claim to their analysis of the societal problems implicated in unintended pregnancy and abortion, and their solutions.

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Published under: Women’s Rights

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1 Weekly Pulse: DIY Abortions; Pawlenty Screws MN on Sex Ed

By Lindsay Beyerstein on September 2, 2010 - 4:00pm | 1 comment

Black market misoprostol is being used to induce abortions on the U.S.-Mexico border; Pawlenty buys expensive ignorance.

Locked Up, Pregnant, and Shackled: Governor Schwarzenegger Can Unchain Them

By LeaJay Harper on September 2, 2010 - 7:00am | 0 comments

In California’s prisons, pregnant Black women, brown women, and Asian-Pacific Islander women are chained together in a barbaric throwback to another time. But it’s here and now.

Pawlenty's Executive Order Puts Politics Before Lives

By Sarah Stoesz on September 2, 2010 - 7:00am | 1 comment

Pawlenty’s executive order affects the elderly, teens, the poor, middle class, those in high risk insurance groups, rural Minnesotans, the mentally ill, new moms and newborns. You can do the math, but you can’t begin to calculate the damage.

2 Access to Abortion: Red State, Blue State, Interstate

By Amanda Marcotte on September 2, 2010 - 7:00am | 17 comments

Women who need access to abortion services are using the Internet, so the Internet is where the information they need should be.

Alveda King's Dangerous PayDay Loan

By Pamela Merritt on September 1, 2010 - 9:00am | 33 comments

This past weekend the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took the stage and tried to sell this nation a payday loan as the payment solution on that check her uncle spoke of 47 years ago.

Post-fertile Boomers Push Birth Rate Drop

By Elizabeth Gregory on September 1, 2010 - 9:00am | 1 comment

Fertility rates in the US have fallen. But the needs of the news cycle for drama notwithstanding, nothing drastic or frightening is happening on the fertility front this year. It’s just plain family planning.

3 True Blood’s Aborted Abortion

By Sarah Seltzer on September 1, 2010 - 9:00am | 0 comments

An abortion storyline in True Blood echos a loving parody of small town life and the conflicted psyche of the modern American woman fed on both feminism and sexism.

Local Context Matters to Women's Lives: A Report from Delhi

By Sara Stratton on August 31, 2010 - 3:30pm | 0 comments

There are many ways to save women’s lives, but the success of any given intervention depends on local context. What works in one locale may not work in another.

Back To School: With Sights on White House, Pawlenty Sacrifices Minnesota Teens

By Robin Marty on August 31, 2010 - 2:45pm | 0 comments

Aspiring to be the next Republican nominee for President, Governor Tim Pawlenty puts political aspirations over helping Minnesota children grow up healthier and safer.

4 Working with Jailed Pregnant Women Changes a Physician's Career

By Dr. Carolyn Sufrin on August 31, 2010 - 7:00am | 2 comments

Seventy percent of women in California’s prisons are non-violent offenders. Why are we shackling them during pregnancy, labor, and delivery?

(VIDEO) Listen to the Lives of Ordinary Catholics

By Lon Newman on August 31, 2010 - 7:00am | 42 comments

The president of Catholics for Choice, explores the political power and hierarchy of the Catholic Church, pointing to three questions on which to evaluate the Bishops' lobbying efforts and policy recommendations.

Sex Ed is "Poison"? We Don't Think So

By Leah Reis-Dennis and Elizabeth Reis on August 31, 2010 - 7:00am | 2 comments

A recent column in The Washington Times warned parents about colleges "poisoning" students with frank discussion about sex and sexuality." A rising Harvard sophomore and her college professor mother weigh in.

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