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House Votes to Bar D.C. From Using Its Own Funds to Assist Low-Income Women in Need of Abortion Care

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

June 17, 2011 - 9:48pm (Print)

The "small government" Republican and Tea Party majority in the House are seeking to put their big, intrusive footprint on the necks of District residents by inserting an amendment to the 2012 Financial Services Appropriations bill extending that ban for another year.

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Budget Showdown Casualties: D.C. Women as Bargaining Chips

by Antoinette Bonsignore

April 11, 2011 - 2:27pm (Print)

How D.C.'s women were sacrificed and the implications for future policy.

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Census Data Show Dramatic Rise in Poverty Among African-American Children in Nation's Capital

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

September 29, 2010 - 8:10am (Print)

New Census data released this month show a "breathtaking" rise in poverty among African-American children in the nation's capital. Three out of 10 children in the District of Columbia were living in poverty last year, according to the Washington Post.

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District of Columbia To Offer Free Female Condoms

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

March 7, 2010 - 2:35pm (Print)

The District of Columbia will begin distributing free female condoms in an effort to reduce HIV infections. The new program will make 500,000 female condoms available in beauty salons, convenience stores and high schools in parts of the city with high HIV rates. DC is the first city in the nation to make female condoms available for free.

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D.C.’s Punitive Sex Work Laws Endanger Women

by Aziza Ahmed and Brook Kelly

January 7, 2010 - 7:00am (Print)

Washington, DC has created a spectrum of punitive laws that lead to and exacerbate unsafe work environments for sex workers and contribute to the skyrocketing rates of HIV infection among vulnerable populations in the District.

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Congress Passes Spending Bill, Allowing Needle Exchange and Removing DC Abortion Funding Ban

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

December 14, 2009 - 9:39am (Print)

Yesterday the Senate passed and sent to President Obama for signing a year-end funding bill for federal agencies that removes restrictions on funding for needle exchange programs and allows the District of Columbia to use its own funds to assist low-income women seeking abortions, among other changes.

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House of Representatives Removes DC Abortion Funding Ban, Rejects Ban on Funding for Needle Exchange

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

December 11, 2009 - 10:26am (Print)

The House of Representatives tooks the first step toward allowing the District of Columbia to use its own funds to help low-income women seeking abortion to afford one and rejected an effort to ban safe needle exchange.

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Catholic Church Threatens District of Columbia Over Gay Marriage Bill

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

November 12, 2009 - 8:43am (Print)

According to the Washington Post, the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, DC is threatening to withdraw all social services from the District of Columbia (DC) if the city does not change it's proposed same-sex marriage law.

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House Committee Votes to Allow DC to Fund Abortions for Low-Income Women; Bill Moves Soon to Full House Vote

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

July 7, 2009 - 10:04pm (Print)

The House Appropriations Committee tonight voted down the "Tiahrt-Davis" Amendment, an effort by anti-choice forces in Congress to reinsert a rider into the District of Columbia's federal funding allocation that would have prohibited local funds from being used to help low-income women access medically necessary abortions.

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