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Bill Donohue: The Bully's TV Pulpit

Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check on May 12, 2008 - 8:11am

A new report details a pattern of media manipulation by Bill Donahue and the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights -- making them neither religious, nor civil.

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UK 24-Week Abortion Law Challenged By Un-Science

Amie Newman, RH Reality Check on May 9, 2008 - 7:28pm

Anti-choice legislators in Britain are challenging the current 24-week abortion limit with blatantly unscientific claims.

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Welcome to RH Reality Check 3.0!

Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check on May 5, 2008 - 5:39am

RH Reality Check celebrates our second anniversary with a new look and new features to make the reader experience better. Thanks for helping create this fast growing online community.

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Decrease Funding, Increase Births

Emily Douglas, RH Reality Check on May 2, 2008 - 10:53am

As funds for family planning decrease, high birth rates create poverty in the Philippines.

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Rest In Peace Rupert Walder

Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check on May 1, 2008 - 4:17pm

We join with many friends and family around the world mourning the death of Rupert Walder from the United Kingdom: writer, communicator, tireless advocate for progressive ideas on sexual and reproductive health.

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Is Europe Pro-Choice Now?

Rupert Walder, RH Reality Check, Europe on April 30, 2008 - 9:10am

While the Council of Europe's recent vote on abortion is not legally binding, it represents the first pan-European call on European countries to decriminalize abortion where it remains illegal and to ensure that women and men have access to contraception.

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Pope Drops By My 'Hood

Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check on April 17, 2008 - 12:02pm

I went looking for protests as the Pope dropped by my neighborhood. As the Mass begins I can hear the cheering crowds from my apartment, but no chants from protesters. I'll have to go to a women's clinic to find protesters.

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Fear and Bigotry In Missouri Immigration Legislation

Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check on April 14, 2008 - 9:48am

The impact of anti-immigration policies on women is clear and reflects poorly upon our society. Pamela explores the impact in her home state of Missouri, in her own neighborhood.

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Triggering Passion Through Personal Connection

Anika Rahman, Americans for UNFPA on April 10, 2008 - 9:46am

How can we trigger passion for social justice in young people? Nothing touches people like personal connection. That's why last year Americans for UNFPA started the Student Award for the Health and Dignity of Women.

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Managing the Muddle: Sex and PEPFAR

Carolina Austria, RH Reality Check, Asia on April 8, 2008 - 9:40am

PEPFAR's "anti-prostitution" pledge favors strategies that are penal in character over health-based interventions that reach out to educate sex workers.

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News & Commentary

1 The Prison of Mandatory Pleasure Provision

By Amanda Marcotte on May 14, 2008 - 8:00am | 0 comments

What would happen if our right to abortion hinged on the right to sexual pleasure rather than on a penumbra? Ecuador might just find out.

Sexualizing Tweens for Profit: A Q&A with Gigi Durham

By T. M. Lindsey on May 14, 2008 - 8:00am | 0 comments

Journalism professor Gigi Durham talks to T.M. Lindsey about the media messages hitting teen girls, teen sexuality, and "Grand Theft Auto."

Debate Rages in Minnesota House As Stem-Cell Funding Passes

By Andy Birkey on May 14, 2008 - 8:00am | 0 comments

The Minnesota House last Wednesday passed a bill that would allow the University of Minnesota to use state funds to conduct research using embryonic stem cells. The measure prompted a flurry of amendments by anti-choice Republicans designed to derail the bill.

2 Domestic Gag Rule? Déjà Vu All Over Again

By Marilyn Keefe on May 13, 2008 - 11:55am | 0 comments

Last week, nearly 80 conservative groups led by the Family Research Council asked President Bush to strip family planning clinics of their eligibility for Title X funds if they refer patients for abortions or share facilities with abortion providers -- which would bring the global gag rule home.

When Getting Pregnant Isn't About Being a Mother

By Angela Castellanos on May 13, 2008 - 8:29am | 0 comments

In Colombia, young women may be getting pregnant intentionally -- but not necessarily because they want to become mothers. Sexuality education advocates differ on how best to tailor a pregnancy prevention and sexual health curriculum to reach Colombian teens.

Pedaling into Local Reproductive Justice Activism

By Nora Dye and Shelby Knox on May 13, 2008 - 8:26am | 0 comments

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On May 26, the Wanderlust reproductive justice bicycle caravan will set off on an 1800 mile journey from New Orleans to New York City, meeting with and learning from reproductive justice activists along the way.

3 Got Plan B? Why Access to EC Is Critical

By Nikki on May 13, 2008 - 8:27am | 0 comments

In honor of the Back Up Your Birth Control with Emergency Contraception (EC) Campaign, Pharmacy Access Partnership and RH Reality Check teamed up to launch an essay contest open to young people 14-24 years of age. Read the winning entry!

Whose Safe Haven? Abandoned Baby Found in St. Louis

By Pamela Merritt on May 12, 2008 - 8:24am | 2 comments

Have Safe Haven laws -- in which women can lawfully relinquish their infants within 30 days of birth -- become a substitute for universal health care and comprehensive sexuality education?

Reproductive Justice Bill in Illinois Mobilizes New Allies

By Veronica Arreola on May 12, 2008 - 8:20am | 2 comments

Illinois's reproductive justice advocates are backing one of the most comprehensive reproductive health bills the state has ever seen. And they're bringing in new allies for the fight.

4 Adoption Rules Tighten Abroad

By Mary Kane on May 12, 2008 - 8:22am | 0 comments

For the first time since international adoption began growing in popularity two decades ago, so many countries have either shut their doors to adoption, tightened their rules or increased domestic adoption that it's now far harder to adopt overseas.

"What If Your Mother Had Aborted You?"

By Frances Kissling on May 9, 2008 - 1:21pm | 68 comments

Far too much is made of a mother's obligations to her children and far too little of a child's love for her mother. If fetuses could love, I think they would be as passionate in defense of their mothers as born children become.

From Inside Prisons, Mothers Long for Their Children

By Christy Hall on May 9, 2008 - 8:00am | 0 comments

The majority of women in prison are mothers of minor children, and women are the fastest-growing prison population in the country. We need to recognize and treat with compassion the humanity of these mothers.

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