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The Fate Of Gay Marriage, Notre Dame, And The World

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

April 12, 2009 - 10:14pm

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Michelle Goldberg on women's rights, reproduction, and the fate of the world. Also, gay marriage hits the heartland and Notre Dame's reputation is assailed by anti-choicers.

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Iowa Governor, State Reps React to Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

By Jason Hancock, New Journalist Project

April 14, 2009 - 7:00am

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In his first press conference since the Iowa Supreme Court voided the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, Gov. Chet Culver stated voters will ultimately decide the issue.

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In Election '08, "Pro-Life" Not Enough for Iowa GOP

By Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow

November 12, 2008 - 8:00am

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In Iowa, social conservatism — especially as it pertains to issues of reproductive health and abortion — seemed to carry less sway than in elections past.

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Abortion? It's All About the Economy for Many Iowa Voters

By Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow

June 5, 2008 - 7:00am

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In nearly any other election in recent memory, the accusation that a Republican candidate in Iowa not only supported abortion but had participated in one would have been big news -- if not a political kiss of death. Not this year.

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Iowa Has Record Number of HIV Diagnoses

By Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow

May 2, 2008 - 8:34am

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The number of Iowans diagnosed with HIV infection last year rose to its highest level since reporting began in 1998.


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Family Planning Funds Nixed by Iowa House

By Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow

April 24, 2008 - 8:42am

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Iowa Right to Life wanted to prevent clinics that provide abortion services from receiving family planning funding for low-income women in the state. Now the funding has been cut altogether.


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Mandatory HPV Vaccine Moves Forward in Iowa

By Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow

March 27, 2008 - 8:45am

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Only two steps remain in Iowa's legislative quest to require insurance companies to provide coverage of vaccinations for the human papillomavirus, the major cause of cervical cancer.


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Iowa Reconsidering Abstinence-Only Funding

By Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow

February 29, 2008 - 8:48am

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At a state policy briefing on Thursday morning, Iowa legislators were asked to end federally funded abstinence-only sex education in the state. The move would make Iowa the seventeenth state to reject Title V abstinence-only funding.


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Planned Parenthood to Iowans: $1 Now or $4 Later?

By Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow

February 12, 2008 - 8:44am

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Iowa has roughly 100,000 low-income women -- 12.3 percent of all women of childbearing age -- who need, but are not receiving, publicly assisted family planning services. The lack of access has been costly to Iowa, a state where half of all pregnancies are unintended.


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