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Risky Business: Pregnant in America

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

March 18, 2010 - 7:00am

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.

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Text4Baby: New Media Health Care

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

February 12, 2010 - 8:00am

Can texting improve your health? An unprecedented public-private partnership begets a new media effort to reduce infant mortality and improve maternal health in the United States.

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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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My Healthcare Manifesto

Reader diary posted by Alison Cole

September 15, 2009 - 4:43pm

Please, if you haven't watched this short film, do now: http://www.reducinginfantmortality.com/

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International Aid, Made Local

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

September 15, 2009 - 7:50am

By using the peer-to-peer model, the Minnesota International Health Volunteers program avoids, or at least reduces, public health obstacles that arise when there’s a culture clash.

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Clinton's Plan for Women, and the People Who Hope it Fails

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

August 19, 2009 - 1:27pm

Concern for women’s rights among many conservatives extends only as far as it can be used against our enemies.

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When Sexism is Deadly

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

July 31, 2009 - 11:37am

Indifference to maternal mortality is closely related to indifference to women’s reproductive rights.

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'Office of Unborn Children's Health' Is Health Care Reform?

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

June 24, 2009 - 4:53pm

Oh, Senator Coburn. Do you honestly believe an "Office of Unborn Children's Health" has a role to play in health care reform? Will it improve the United States' dismal maternal and newborn mortality rates?

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Charter A Win for Polish Women Giving Birth

By Anna Wilkowska-Landowska, RH Reality Check, Eastern Europe

December 18, 2008 - 9:00am

The Polish Commissioner for Civil Rights Protection wants to put pressure on the Ministry of Health to prepare high-level standards of care to be guaranteed to all birthing women in Poland.

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Roundup: A Closer Look at the South Dakota Abortion Ban

By Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

September 29, 2008 - 11:38am

A closer look at South Dakota's proposed abortion ban; A Catholic woman and attorney from the Philippines laments her church's campaign against new family planning legislation; Does stress from racism partially account for high infant mortality rates among black women?

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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 | 1 comment

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 | 1 comment

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 | 6 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 | 186 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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