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Weekly Pulse: Pelosi Champions Public Option

By Lindsay Beyerstein, RH Reality Check

October 21, 2009 - 10:49am

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As health care reform moves into the closed-door, intra-party negotiation phase, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is emerging as a champion of a public option, though she has wavered about how tough that plan should be on payouts to providers.

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Roundup: The Obama Administration: For the Public Option Before They Were Against It... Sort Of?

By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor

October 19, 2009 - 11:00am

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While the public wants a public option, and while the President-as-candidate campaigned on the promise of at least something akin to a public option, the Administration has, from day one of the health care reform process, done just about everything it could to say they are "for" a public option "kinda sorta" but "it's not the defining piece" of health reform. Huh?

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I'm Lucky: I Don't Need An Abortion in Arizona... For Now

By Tori Schroeder

October 2, 2009 - 7:00am

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Despite a recent court victory, access to abortion in Arizona remains highly restricted. So I am lucky: As a resident of Arizona, I don't need an abortion right now. If I did, it might still be difficult to get one.

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Get Real! How Do You Tell When Women Are Done With Sex?

By Heather Corinna, Scarleteen.com

July 31, 2009 - 7:00am

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Sex is over when one or both partners don't want to have it anymore, either because they both feel satisfied or just because one or both are done with the whole works for the time being.

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