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Anti-Choice Anti-Environmentalism

June 27, 2011 - 9:02am (Print)

Anti-choice arguments against contraception are perfectly pitched to bring in conservatives who are motivated by the politics of resentment, as the anti-choice and anti-environmentalism alignment demonstrates.

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Why The Right Is Turning Extreme On Contraception

by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

May 1, 2011 - 1:16pm (Print)

Nearly all women who have sex with men use contraception at some point. So why is anti-contraception sentiment becoming rapidly mainstream on the American right? It's a combination of a mob mentality and a kneejerk hostility to sex.

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Corporate Christianity And Extremist Anti-Contraception Activism

by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

October 4, 2009 - 10:33pm (Print)

Bethany Moreton on the creation of Christian free enterprise. Also, Texas health care news and anti-choicers reveal the anti-contraception agenda.

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Jill Stanek Doesn't Want to Prevent Abortions

by Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

July 8, 2009 - 11:11am (Print)

Steven Waldman proposes the following hypothetical situation: more premarital sex and fewer abortions. Would pro-lifers accept this trade-off?

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Sexual Health Ignorance Comes From Above

by Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

June 30, 2009 - 11:12am (Print)

How long is sex education going to be marginalized, hindered, or just ignored?

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CHIP and Contraception: Legislative Interference in Montana

by Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

June 23, 2009 - 10:41am (Print)

Montana is one of only four states—along with North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Texas—that have legislative bans on the coverage of contraceptives by CHIP.

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The Trench Warfare of the HHS Rules

by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

December 9, 2008 - 8:00am (Print)

The Bush administration and the anti-choice movement have declared trench warfare against the women of America. The HHS rule change is nothing short of overriding the wishes and expectations of the larger population to cater to the fanatical religious right.

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Keeping the Faith Extends to Prescription Drugs

by Lynne Glasner

November 5, 2008 - 3:00am (Print)

A new influx of faith-based pharmacies demonstrates that the "pro-life" groups want to take us back to the dark days when contraception was prohibited.

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Turning Backs on Patients: HHS Fails to Deliver on Contraception/Conscience Proposal

by Emily Douglas

August 21, 2008 - 6:48pm (Print)

After intense criticism in the mainstream media and from millions of Americans, HHS has removed an explicit redefinition of contraception as abortion from proposed regulations. In so doing, the agency may have created a much larger problem.

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Tell Secretary Leavitt to Block New HHS Regulations on Contraception!

by Mary Jane Gallagher, National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association

July 17, 2008 - 1:55pm (Print)

The Bush administration is proposing sweeping new restrictions on recipients of health-related federal funding. Click here to send a letter to Secretary Leavitt and demand that these draft regulations never come to fruition. And read more about the new regulations here.

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