abortion care
By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor November 10, 2009 - 8:41am
What are the real-life effects of the Stupak-Pitts amendment to the House health care bill? An analysis by experts on health law, and reproductive and sexual health issues, shows just how far it goes.
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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor November 7, 2009 - 4:38pm
A close vote on the Stupak amendment; women's groups calling for immediate and urgent calls to these representatives.
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By Todd Heywood, New Journalist Fellow October 29, 2009 - 6:00am
Congressman Bart Stupak says that while he is leading the charge to eliminate abortion care from both private and public insurance policies, he will support health care reform legislation even if he loses.
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By Judy Waxman, National Women's Law Center September 25, 2009 - 6:00am
The America's Healthy Futures Act takes important steps to fix a broken system, but still fails miserably when it comes to making coverage affordable for those who need it most. We've waited long enough. The Senate needs to improve it and move it!
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It is time to acknowledge that PAs, NPs and CNMs [collectively known as advanced practice clinicians (APCs)] are capable and qualified to provide abortion care services, but that current efforts to provide this care are thwarted by both the politics of health care and the politics of abortion.
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By Stephanie Poggi, National Network of Abortion Funds August 10, 2009 - 6:00am
Health reform was supposed expand care, not exacerbate existing inequalities. Will Obama and the majority Democratic Congress preside over the biggest cutback in reproductive health care for poor women and women of color in decades?
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While sex selective abortion allows women to make what is, in a sense, the ultimate in supposedly informed consumerism, it also can work to create a world where being female is viewed as the primary and most terminal of birth defects.
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Read this first: CBS and Salon debunk health care myths; Dr. LeRoy Carhart plans to open Kansas abortion clinic; Esquire profiles Dr. Warren Hern.
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The best gift I could give to honor Dr. Tiller's life is to "come out" as an abortion provider to friends and family, to identify myself and the work I do with pride.
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PBS has produced an exceptional segment about violence and harassment targeting abortion providers, asking whether Dr. George Tiller's killing was an act of domestic terrorism and what the effect of decades of violence has on women's access to the procedure.
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