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Pregnant Trans People Need Care, Not Media Circus

Erin Wilkins on May 15, 2008 - 8:00am
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Pregnancies, both planned and unplanned, happen to trans folks, too. It is imperative for reproductive health care providers to seek appropriate education and training in order to be able to provide comprehensive care to these patients.

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Whose Safe Haven? Abandoned Baby Found in St. Louis

Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check on May 12, 2008 - 8:24am
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Have Safe Haven laws -- in which women can lawfully relinquish their infants within 30 days of birth -- become a substitute for universal health care and comprehensive sexuality education?

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Gloves Off: Clinton, Obama Debate in Austin

Emily Douglas, RH Reality Check on February 21, 2008 - 11:47pm
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The second one-on-one debate meeting for Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton was sharper in tone than before, drawing out some substantive differences between the candidates on health care and foreign policy.


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Coverage? Getting There. Access? Not Yet

Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check on February 21, 2008 - 9:48am
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The promise of universal health care coverage appears to be within America's grasp. But health care reform must address barriers to access beyond coverage to be truly universal.


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Eight Days Before Caucus Night and ...

Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow on December 26, 2007 - 3:48pm
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The countdown to Iowa begins. With eight days until the Iowa caucus, candidates are scrambling to make the biggest splash but are Iowans already worn out?


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Blunt (Task) Force Wants Ballot to Outlaw Abortion

Amie Newman, RH Reality Check on December 5, 2007 - 10:19am
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Governor Blunt of Missouri is called out for his anti-choice task force in the face of a new ballot initiative in his state that seeks to criminalize abortion and health care providers.


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Debating Public Health Care

Carolina Austria, RH Reality Check, Asia on November 12, 2007 - 9:17am
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In the context of increasingly privatized health care within a public health care system and alongside policy scripts fueling "tax cuts," who is accountable and responsible for public health in Canada?


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RealTime: Clinton Proposes Expanding Family Leave Act

Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check on October 17, 2007 - 1:25pm
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Clinton, in the midst of her 'Women's Week," proposed an expansion of the Family Medical Leave Act, while Dodd was on the Hill testifying to extend the bill to injured veterans.


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Paperwork, Pinkoes, and Irresponsibility

Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check on October 10, 2007 - 8:49am
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The well-worn objections to universal health care have been thoroughly trounced, but they keep persisting long past their welcome, much like "The Macarena" or the media attention paid to Paris Hilton. Amanda rounds up and skewers some favorites.


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