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Women Need Health Care Reform, Stat!

By Dr. Willie Parker, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health

September 16, 2009 - 7:00am

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Too often, I find myself telling patients with easily treatable conditions that I can’t help them -- they don’t have the money to get well and it rips me apart. That’s why I am an ardent advocate for health care reform.

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Politics Has No Place in Medicine

By Dr. Willie Parker, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health

April 18, 2008 - 8:48am

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A year ago today, on April 18, 2007, the Supreme Court upheld a federal ban on a specific abortion procedure. The law deliberately omitted an exception allowing doctors to act if a woman's health is in danger. Now, copycat legislation is being introduced in states across the country.


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