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Top of the News: Afternoon Edition
by Amie Newman
November 10, 2010 - 7:40pm (Print)
Teen girls are facing discimination in athletics, a transgender inmate vows to continue lawsuit against the state, the Massachusetts House sees a growing number of anti-choice lawmakers and more in today's afternoon round-up!
Roundup: Are You Ready to Go Back to the 50's?
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
November 5, 2010 - 10:55am (Print)
The GOP has taken over, and it's time to start looking at all of the ways they can turn back the clock on progress.
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PersonhoodUSA's Radical, Fetal-Separatist Agenda
by Lynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women
October 25, 2010 - 8:39pm (Print)
Amendment 62 in Colorado is sponsored by a Fetal Separatist movement that seeks to legally separate pregnant women and the fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses inside them, depriving women of their right to life and liberty.
Roundup: Trying Too Hard on Amendment 62
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
October 25, 2010 - 9:30am (Print)
Amendment 62 kicks it up a notch with both sides pushing a little too hard, and an Ohio judge allows teens to marry without parental consent to protect the daughter from an alleged abortion.
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(VIDEO) Anti-Choice-Tea Party Video on Amendment 62 Full of Lies, Distortions and Grotesquery
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
October 19, 2010 - 4:46pm (Print)
I am long past the point of hoping for some semblance of truth from the anti-woman, anti-life, anti-choice movement. Still, the length to which they use blatant lies and distortions--and the failure of most media outlets to call them on it--remains breathtaking.
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Roundup: Colorado - Personhood, Buck and Lots of Ads
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
October 19, 2010 - 5:23am (Print)
The senate race in Colorado is heating up, and Ken Buck gets assistance from a ballot measure and a lot of money. But that might not be enough to secure a victory.
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Buck Accuses Rape Victim of Just Having "Buyer's Remorse"
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
October 11, 2010 - 12:26pm (Print)
Senate candidate Ken Buck is rapidly losing ground with women voters, and the latest news that he blamed a rape victim for her own rape may make it worse.
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Roundup: Vatican a Wet Blanket on Nobel Prize
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
October 5, 2010 - 9:52am (Print)
The developer of invitro fertilization wins a Nobel prize, and the Vatican becomes a total wet blanker. Plus, Amendment 62 is likely to lose.
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(VIDEO) Does Your Zygote Pay a Cover Charge?
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
October 4, 2010 - 12:05pm (Print)
Ladies beware! If you are fertile and engaged in sexual intercourse with a male person, you may become pregnant at any time. And really, if its even possible one of your ova has met its match, shouldn't you being paying extra for that airplane ticket? After all you are two, not one, and your body is no longer your own.
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Personhood Amendment Would Ban In-Vitro Fertilization, Physicians, Families Speak Out
by Amie Newman
September 29, 2010 - 9:10pm (Print)
Physicians and families spoke out yesterday against Amendment 62, the "Personhood Amendment" up for a vote in Colorado, warning that, if passed, it would ban in-vitro fertilization for couples seeking to have children.
