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By Anna Clark, RH Reality Check November 17, 2009 - 9:42am
While it is a routine operation—nearly 500,000 are performed in the United States every year—the myths about vasectomies fester.
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By Anna Clark, RH Reality Check October 1, 2009 - 6:00am
A hotline set up by the ACLU in Illinois is intended to help teens in need exercise their due process rights to a judicial bypass option in case they need an abortion but do not want to notify their parents. These and other efforts seek to protect the rights of pregnant young women who cannot inform their parents of their pregnancy and abortion, often because of concern for their physical safety or abandonment, or because their parents are inaccessible. In such cases, a young woman seeking an abortion can bring her case to a judge, who in turn can permit the medical procedure without the required notification or consent.
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By Anna Clark, RH Reality Check July 10, 2009 - 7:00am
One prisoner was shackled around the waist during labor. Another, with a high-risk pregnancy, was put in a
leg iron. Policies for incarcerated men are
extended to women without adapting to distinct circumstances.
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By Anna Clark, RH Reality Check July 6, 2009 - 7:00am
As birthing choices are increasingly part of the public
conversation, pregnant women are increasingly empowered to decide what sort of care is right for their bodies and their child. Except for those pregnant women who are incarcerated.
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By Anna Clark, RH Reality Check May 21, 2009 - 7:00am
The nation with the highest adolescent pregnancy and birth rates in the industrialized world has not figured out how to meet the educational needs of pregnant and parenting teens. In fact, we're going the other direction - gutting the too-rare programs that have developed to meet the unique needs of teen parents.
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By Anna Clark, RH Reality Check April 10, 2009 - 7:00am
Rejecting abstinence-only funding is only one part of the movement to educate and empower young people; we also need to pro-actively normalize comprehensive, medically-accurate sexuality education in American schools.
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By Anna Clark, RH Reality Check December 16, 2008 - 8:00am
When emotions get heated among those who disagree on abortion rights, it can be easy to settle the conversation by calling on adoption as a "compromise." Is treating adoption as a solution to abortion the best way to craft sensible adoption policy?
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By Anna Clark, RH Reality Check November 18, 2008 - 8:00am
Family Research Council members convinced a New Jersey hotel to stop offering discounted room rates to women coming to the state seeking abortion care. Is cutting off assistance for lodging and travel for women seeking abortion care the best way to help or simply a low-blow to women in vulnerable circumstances?
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By Anna Clark, RH Reality Check October 21, 2008 - 7:00am
The presidential candidates have been challenged with the same question again and again: In our unprecedented economic crisis, what programs or services will you cut? If they cut family planning services, other reproductive health costs are sure to spiral leaving "Jane the plumber" without the critical health services she needs.
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By Anna Clark, RH Reality Check September 23, 2008 - 7:00am
Ready to raise a family? Parents and parents-to-be are facing a brutal economic moment and longstanding workplace and government policies that don't support them in building their families. What solutions do our presidential candidates offer?
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