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Women's Health Exception in South Dakota Ban Not Enough to Protect Women

By Dr. Suzanne Poppema, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health

October 21, 2008 - 8:00am

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Proponents of the South Dakota abortion ban argue that the health exception protects women's well-being. But the amendment would force physicians to make medical decisions with their attorneys, rather than with their patients.

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McCain Calls Palin Direct Counter to Feminist Agenda

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

October 20, 2008 - 5:51pm

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McCain calls Palin a direct counter to a feminist agenda but Governor Palin's ceiling-breaking rise to prominence is a direct result of feminism - not to mention a host of other supremely beneficial public policies.

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Roundup: UK Scouting Association to Offer Basic Sex Ed to Help Scouts Be Prepared

By Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

October 20, 2008 - 11:55am

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UK Scouting Association to offer basic sex ed to Explorer Scouts between the ages of 14 and 18; What constitutes a mother's health?; Proposed South Dakota abortion ban could punish doctors with 10 years in jail and a $20,000 fine; Anti-choice groups divided about SD abortion ban; Madagascar announces nationwide family planning initiative.

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Memo Leaked in South Dakota Anti-Abortion Measure

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

October 17, 2008 - 2:22pm

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While the anti-choice measure on the ballot in South Dakota claims it won't affect women with crisis pregnancies whose lives are in danger - or physicians and other providers involved - a leaked memo from a SD hospital concludes something very different.

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Roundup: Abortion Rises Again as Election Issue

By Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

October 17, 2008 - 10:32am

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Obama seeks middle ground on abortion; McCain slammed for 'sarcastic air quotes'; Abortion restrictions on the ballot in Colorado, South Dakota and California; Broad support for reproductive health bill in Phillipines; UN says more focus on women needed in fight against HIV; 'HIV positive' Muppet educates kids on the disease in South Africa.

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Since Roe, Protections for Women's Health Embedded in Abortion Law

By Michelle Movahed, Center for Reproductive Rights

October 17, 2008 - 8:00am

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The United States Constitution protects each and every woman against any law that would force her to carry to term any pregnancy which jeopardizes her life or her health.

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McCain Ridicules Women's Health; Voters, Pundits Astonished

By Emily Douglas, RH Reality Check

October 16, 2008 - 3:47pm

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Pundits and bloggers thought that by dismissing an exception to abortion bans for women's health, McCain was alienating the very voters he had spent months courting.

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Fact or Fiction: The Debate and Reproductive Health

By Emily Douglas, RH Reality Check

October 16, 2008 - 1:09am

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Those of us waiting to hear the presidential candidates clarify their stances on abortion, women's health, equal pay and Supreme Court nominees had a lot to pay attention to tonight.

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Where Is Obama's Truth on Late Term Abortion?

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

July 8, 2008 - 8:00am

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Does Barack Obama honestly believe that a small percentage of the already tiny percentage of women who undergo late term abortions, those who, under the advice of a skilled physician, decide that a D&X is the safest procedure for them, are somehow not broken enough to receive one?

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