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Sex: What Is It?

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

March 12, 2010 - 9:00am

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A survey from the Kinsey Institute tackles the murky, but vital, question of What Is Sex? and the answers underscore how changeable our definitions may be.


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Anti-Choice Website Misleads on Connections Between Abortion and Maternal Mortality

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

February 15, 2010 - 8:00am

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A writer makes nonsensical arguments to connect criminalization of abortion in Ireland with low rates of maternal mortality. Ireland is abortion-free like America is drug-free.


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Chris Smith Prays for Obama. I Am Praying for Smith.

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

February 1, 2010 - 8:00am

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Chris Smith is obsessed with abortion, and with thwarting women's rights. Smith, whose top campaign contributor is Right to Life’s PAC, has made it his mission to make both contraception and safe abortion inaccessible here and abroad.


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Steven Mosher on Your Rights: Reproduce Whether You Like It or Not

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

January 15, 2010 - 3:41pm

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Anti-choice "aid" organizations and people like Steve Mosher, believe the women they’re “serving” are meant to reproduce, even as their bodies give out, and they can’t feed the children they have.


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Scott Brown and Choice: What's the Real Story?

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

January 13, 2010 - 2:12pm

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Brown’s amendment from 2005 has everything to do with rape victims, and his attitude towards these women has everything to do with the upcoming special election.


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Catholic Hospitals Back Health Care; Bart Continues to Whine

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

January 4, 2010 - 8:00am

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A group representing America’s Catholic hospitals announced last week it would support the Senate health care bill, breaking rank with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.


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Dark Ages Now: Robert George's Plan for America

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

December 22, 2009 - 6:43pm

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George argues that his view of "moral order" doesn't have to be connected to “divine revelation or biblical Scripture”—but can simply be defended as the most reasonable order.


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Women, Listen to Your Mothers

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

November 30, 2009 - 5:21pm

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Because of the tremendous work done in the 60s and 70s, my generation can sit around and have conversations about our feelings about abortion. But we need to remember that what matters politically is the legal right to have an abortion, without which these conversations are moot.


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Religious Tyranny Shames Religion

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

November 10, 2009 - 7:00am

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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has debased itself by turning into a lobbying group of the most aggressive and inappropriate sort.


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The "Born Alive" Myth: Tale Turned Political Tool

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

November 2, 2009 - 7:00am

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The myth of the born-alive fetus has long been a weapon in the pro-life arsenal, one "kept alive" by misleading language, and by efforts to pass laws that further obfuscate and mislead.


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