Election 2010

Walker Walks All Over Rights of Wisconsin Women

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by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

March 2, 2011 - 1:24pm (Print)

Beyond union busting, Walker now moves to eliminate access to contraception for low-income women and a return to allowing insurance companies to deny coverage for contraceptive supplies.

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Amie's Top Ten

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by Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

March 2, 2011 - 12:55pm (Print)

This week RH Reality Check is saying goodbye to Amie Newman.  In the way of a tribute to Amie's amazing work at RH Reality Check we present the ten posts, out of the nearly seven hundred she composed, that garnered the most reads.

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Meet the HR3 Ten, The Anti-Choice, Anti-Woman Democrats. No. 2: Mark Critz

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by Sarah Jaffe

February 11, 2011 - 8:02am (Print)

Ten Democrats are cosponsors of H.R.3, even with language redefining rape. Four of them  apparently don’t care if pregnant women die. Sarah Jaffe takes a closer look at all. Number 2 is Mark Critz.

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Afternoon Roundup: Is There An Abortion Statistics 'Cover-Up'?

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by Amie Newman

February 7, 2011 - 6:22pm (Print)

The first FDA approved drug to reduce the risk of preterm birth; Egyptian women are empowered by the protests; the abortion statistics controversy that isn't; more anti-choice maneuvering in Minnesota.

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The Motherhood Taboo And The Conservative Anti-Woman Priorities

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by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

February 7, 2011 - 7:55am (Print)

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Conservatives ignore jobs and start working heavily against reproductive rights. Carlina White solves her own kidnapping, and Barbara Almond talks about mothers and their secret shame.

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Health Care Unreplaced and Abortion Opening Up

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by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

January 23, 2011 - 10:49pm (Print)

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"Repeal and replace" looking more like no-repeal, no-replace. Bill O'Reilly loses his mind over the idea that women can talk openly about abortion, and the Guttmacher has new statistics on abortion in America.

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One Last Firewall for Choice in Oklahoma?

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by Andrea Grimes

January 21, 2011 - 12:44am (Print)

Anti-choice politicians in Oklahoma have tried year after year to make it harder for women to access abortion despite the fact that and have been thwarted by the courts. Now there may be no check or balance on anti-choice legislation.

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Are Anti-Choice Legislators Gunning For Minnesota's Version of Roe?

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by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check

January 20, 2011 - 11:07pm (Print)

Right now, women in Minnesota are protected by state law if Roe v. Wade is ever overturned. But anti-choice legislators are aiming to change that.

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Pitts is the Pits: The Right to an Abortion About to Become Yet Another Privilege of the Rich (Only)

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by Rebecca Sive, The Sive Group, Inc./www.rebeccasive.com

January 20, 2011 - 11:29am (Print)

Pitts needs to be surrounded, diminished, shown to be unfeeling, harassed at every turn, picketed, criticized in his hometown papers and otherwise made to understand that the Pitts plan is the pits.

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GOP Loves Government-Sponsored Health Care...For Themselves

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by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

January 19, 2011 - 11:34am (Print)

If you are following the floor debate on C-Span over the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (PPACA) in the House of Representatives, you know that members of the new Republican majority really want to get rid of the health reform bill signed into law last year.  You also know the are really against government-sponsored health care.  Unless it covers them.

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