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Anti-Choice "Egg-as-Person" Initiatives Threaten the Rights Of Women

By Joseph Boven, Colorado Independent

November 12, 2009 - 9:53am

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“We know, based on hundreds of cases across the country, some of them in Colorado, that if, as a matter of law fetuses are described as separate persons, essentially pregnant women lose their Personhood,” says Lynn Paltrow.

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Regional Groups Find Allies in New Places

By Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check

September 26, 2009 - 8:02am

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While ultra-conservatives attempt to derail health reform with intellectually dishonest charges of taxpayer-funded abortion, state and local pro-choice advocates seek more centrist issues to attract allies to the greater cause.

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Can Colorado Sen. Schultheis Be Musgraved?

By John Tomasic, New Journalist Fellow

August 12, 2009 - 7:00am

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Republican Senate Candidate Tom McDowell wants to move the dial in Colorado Springs away from a social politics that puts abortion, gay rights and illegal immigration front and center.

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Anti-Abortion Activists Push New, More Radical Egg-As-Person Measures

By Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check

July 7, 2009 - 7:00am

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A resurgent movement to place "personhood" measures on state ballots across the nation to ban abortion and comprehensive reproductive care could have far sweeping implications.

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Should People Who Oppose Abortion also Oppose “Personhood” Measures?

By Lynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW)

July 7, 2009 - 7:00am

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While people opposed to abortion believe separate rights for the “unborn” will have a limited impact only on the right to abortion, there are many cases in which "personhood" arguments have been used to punish women going to term.

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Roundup: A Final Look at Poll Results on Abortion Related Ballot Initiatives

By Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

November 4, 2008 - 10:56am

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Abortion related ballot initiatives will be decided in California, Colorado and South Dakota today; Jill at Feministe offers up a nice voter guide; Why Catholics shouldn't be afraid to support a pro-choice candidate; New York Times looks at the demographics of women who have had an abortion.

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Roundup: Sundown for Colorado Fundamentalists, TV and Teen Pregnancy

By Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

November 3, 2008 - 10:55am

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The sun may be setting on the political influence of fundamentalist churches; Study finds significant link between TV and teen pregnancy; 43% of women report sexual problems; 13 year-old rape victim stoned to death in Somalia for adultery; John Chittick walks the world speaking with teens about HIV/AIDS.

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Roundup: A Turning Point for the Politics of Abortion?

By Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

October 30, 2008 - 10:26am

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Have we reached a turning point during this election in the nasty wedge politics of abortion?; Women buying health insurance policies pay a penalty; Colorado personhood amendment could result in outlawing of contraception; Report cites HHS for "impermissible" grants to abstinence-only programs.

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Colorado Poll: Egg As Person? Over Easy!

By Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

October 28, 2008 - 2:05pm

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It appears the far-right will have to scramble to put Humpty together again as polling suggests the "Egg as Person" initiative is over, easy.

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Roundup: Adults and Unplanned Pregnancy, TIME says Palin Abortion Attacks "Misleading"

By Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

October 13, 2008 - 10:35am

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Many adults, not just teens, face unplanned pregnancies; Doug Kmiec on Obama and the middle ground in the abortion debate; TIME Magazine calls Palin attacks on Obama's abortion record "misleading"; Watching anti-choice ballot initiatives; Abstinence-only and HIV in Uganada.

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