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Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum's position on abortion seems to be shifting, if ever so slightly.
Women’s Reproductive Rights Under Threat in Colombia
by Hanna Hindstrom, Women's News Network (WNN)
August 25, 2011 - 12:13pm (Print)
Despite a landmark ruling five years ago – when Colombia’s Constitutional Court decriminalized abortion in cases of rape, fetal abnormality or to save the mother’s life – less than 0.5 percent of procedures are carried out legally each year.
Because I Am a Man, I feel My Sexuality is Dirty, and Worry I'll Hurt Someone With It
by Heather Corinna, Scarleteen.com
July 15, 2011 - 8:55am (Print)
Do you have to worry that simply by virtue of being a male person with a sexuality, you'll abuse someone? No. Being a certain sex, having a certain gender or having a sexuality does not mean a person has any kind of innate predilection to abuse.
What Do You Mean It's Not Rape?
February 5, 2011 - 11:56pm (Print)
A New Jersey writer speaks out for the first time about her own rape and her reaction to Congressman Chris Smith's bill which, she argues, is designed to demolish long-established American freedoms and to undermine the health and rights of poor and middle class women.
Arkansas Anti-Choicers Reject Abortion Restriction Bill Because it Included Exceptions for Rape and Incest
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
February 4, 2011 - 5:25pm (Print)
A bill to restrict insurance coverage of abortion in Arkansas was tabled after its anti-choice proponents decided they could not abide exceptions for rape and incest.
Follow Jodi Jacobson on Twitter, @jljacobson
Invisible Girls Demand To Be Seen
September 16, 2009 - 8:00pm (Print)
In a revised second edition of her groundbreaking book Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse, Dr. Patti Feuereisen explains the intricacies of mentor abuse among the other variants of sexual abuse and assault that many young women face. In the United States alone, at least one in four young women will survive some sort of abuse before she turns eighteen.
Nicaragua: The Reality of Abortion Restrictions Revealed
by Angela Castellanos, RH Reality Check, Latin America
September 10, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)
Brazil Pushes Back Against Catholic Church
by Angela Castellanos, RH Reality Check, Latin America
March 30, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)
A World in Which Women Are Cartoons, Not People
by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
March 20, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)
Follow Amanda Marcotte on Twitter, @amandamarcotte
Abortion More Serious Crime than Rape, Says Vatican
by Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check
March 11, 2009 - 2:16pm (Print)
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio da Silva has chastised the Catholic Church for excommunicating the doctors and family of the nine-year-old girl who had an abortion.
