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Religious Tyranny Shames Religion

November 10, 2009 - 7:00am

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has debased itself by turning into a lobbying group of the most aggressive and inappropriate sort.

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Crisis Pregnancy Center Report Reveals Accidental Truths

By Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check

October 1, 2009 - 7:00am

The Family Research Council's report Wednesday commemorating 40 years of crisis pregnancy centers inadvertently confirms a dirty little secret of public health: $200 million per year is being spent on reproductive health care provided by amateurs.

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Abstinence-Only Violates First Amendment Protections

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

September 27, 2009 - 11:05pm

Valencia Robinson talks about the ACLU lawsuit against Mississippi's HHS. Also, the Values Voters said some weird stuff, and why health care reform is a woman's issue.

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Roundup: Michael Steele Finds Room in His Tent for Pro-Choice Republicans

By Jodi Jacobson, Editor, RH Reality Check

September 21, 2009 - 12:22pm

Michael Steele finds room in his tent for pro-choice Republicans, but others don't want to share their campsite; Mike Huckabee remains coy about his intentions for the next Presidential campaign, but he nonetheless played the politician/campaigner at the "Values Voter Summit" this past weekend in Washington, DC. And South Dakota receives a grant for facilitating adoption of children in foster care.

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Values Voters Summit Promotes 'New Masculinity' of Ignorance and Fury

By Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check

September 21, 2009 - 8:00am

The Family Research Council wants you to be manly. So the Values Voter Summit, the annual confab of ultra-conservative political and religious leaders, tried to be hip with a fundamentalist-inspired reenactment of "Mad Men."

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Conservatives Lean on Abortion to Distract from Health Care Crisis

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

August 3, 2009 - 1:31pm

Since “Save America’s Insurance Companies” is hardly a winning rallying cry, conservative groups are calling on their reliable foe/political friend, abortion.

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VIDEO: You'll Be "Forced to Pay for Abortions" says Anti-Choice Healthcare Attack Ad

By Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

July 30, 2009 - 12:54pm

The Family Research Council has released an ad attacking health care reform, specifically the mythical assumption that proposed health care reform would force Americans into an insurance policy that covers abortion care.

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Sexual Health Ignorance Comes From Above

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

June 30, 2009 - 12:12pm

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

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The Blood on Tony Perkins's Hands

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

April 20, 2009 - 7:20pm

With such a lurid attack on Sebelius, Perkins had better be ready to explain his own complicity in AIDS deaths, not just in Africa but all over the world.

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Who Wants Family Planning Assistance - Politicians, Or Families?

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

February 4, 2009 - 12:19pm

Who wants family planning resources, politicians or low-income American women? Tony Perkins claims that it's the former.

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News & Commentary

1 Florida Agency Set to Ban VBAC in State's Birth Centers

By Anna Clark on March 19, 2010 - 3:55pm | 0 comments

This Wednesday, Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration is expected to permanently ban Vaginal Birth after Cesarean (VBAC) in the state’s birth centers. Legal challenges are already in the works.

South Carolina House Passes Bill Banning State Coverage of Most Abortions

By Rachel Larris on March 19, 2010 - 4:04pm | 0 comments

On Thursday the South Carolina House approved an amendment to the state budget that would ban state insurance policies from covering abortions except to save the life of the mother.

Reproductive Justice for Latinas: The Struggle Continues

By Veronica Bayetti Flores on March 19, 2010 - 9:00am | 0 comments

Immigrant women face considerable obstacles in accessing health care, including low-paying jobs without health insurance and linguistic and cultural barriers. On Sunday, I will march for reproductive justices. Will you join me?

2 Resurrected CO "Egg-as-a-Person" Initiative Could Make Ballot

By Wendy Norris on March 19, 2010 - 7:00am | 0 comments

A ballot measure seeking to give constitutional rights to fertilized eggs may rise again. And if not by sheer volume of petition signatures, proponents will sue the state to advance the cause.

(VIDEO) So... About that Video

By Heather Corinna on March 19, 2010 - 7:00am | 0 comments

Heather critiques a sexuality education video from a national organization which, she argues, unnecessarily perpetuates negative stereotypes about both men and women.

Where the Wild Things Weren't: Daily Beast's Women's Summit Avoids Controversial Realities

By Megan Carpentier on March 18, 2010 - 7:00am | 1 comment

The Daily Beast's first Women in the World Summit played stuck to lowest-common denominator issues, and avoided the "scary" and "controversial" (read: political) realities of women's lives.

3 Risky Business: Pregnant in America

By Amie Newman on March 18, 2010 - 7:00am | 5 comments

Pregnant women in the U.S. have a greater risk of dying from pregnancy or childbirth related complications than women in 40 other countries around the world. It's past time to fix this.

Youth Lead Advocacy For Sexual and Reproductive Health

By Maria de Bruyn on March 17, 2010 - 9:19pm | 0 comments

Youth advocates at the 54th Commission on the Status of Women challenged a multi-generational, multinational audience to examine their own thinking about sexual and reproductive health and rights.

In Absurd Move, Canada Drops Family Planning from Maternal Health Plan

By Jodi Jacobson on March 17, 2010 - 2:52pm | 3 comments

The Canadian government is excluding family planning from its initiative to save the lives and improve the health of mothers in poor countries. One small problem: You can't address maternal mortality without family planning.

4 "Slow Death by Rubber Duck:" What We Don't See Can Hurt Us

By Miranda Spencer on March 17, 2010 - 7:00am | 4 comments

Want to know about the effects on human health of environmental toxins? A new book provides the perfect primer.

"We're Not Dolls! Don't Play With Women's Lives"

By Tatiana Mckinney on March 17, 2010 - 7:00am | 0 comments

A demonstration on the steps of Brooklyn's Borough Hall on March 10 raised awareness of the effects of HIV and AIDS on women and girls.

Midwives Barred From California Hospital

By Amie Newman on March 16, 2010 - 7:07pm | 5 comments

Midwives in California are fighting for their right to be reinstated at a hospital where administrators have so far provided no proof for their abrupt dismissal, saying only it was for "patient safety."

5 Is Hormone Replacement Therapy Worth the Risks?

By Pamela Merritt on March 16, 2010 - 7:00am | 0 comments

News that there may be a link between hormone replacement therapy and lung cancer has renewed questions about the use of hormones to treat the symptoms of menopause.

Adulthood and the Right to Make Our Own Choices

By Anat Shenker-Osorio on March 16, 2010 - 7:00am | 6 comments

What does it mean when a group is systematically denied the right to marry? Or when another group is denied the right to determine what happens to their bodies? At some level, even if only unconsciously, it means we think they aren’t adults.

The Ethical, Spiritual, and Moral Foundation of the Abortion-Provider Community

By TrustingWomen on March 16, 2010 - 7:00am | 155 comments

Those who provide access to abortions have ethical, spiritual, and religious wisdom that this world needs, and this community needs to claim and celebrate its power, goodness, morality, and justice.

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