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Roundup: Election Comes at Key Point for High Court's Stance on Abortion

By Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

October 31, 2008 - 9:45am

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The result of the presidential election will determine the direction of the Supreme Court on Roe; Another California paper comes our against Proposition 4; Economists have show that working women are key to world prosperity, so how can better enable women to work?; Rwandan teens ask parents to talk to them about sex.

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John McCain's Health Care Plan is Worse for Women

By Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

October 30, 2008 - 12:34pm

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John McCain's plan to deregulate the health care industry would erode important state insurance requirements aimed at protecting women's access to basic health needs.

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Roundup: "Pro-Life, Pro-Obama" Radio Ad, High Rate of HIV Infection in Philadelphia

By Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

October 28, 2008 - 10:04am

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Radio ad says "Too many unborn lives are being lost while we wait for judges to get it right."; Opponents of California's Prop 4 and Prop 8 join forces on college campuses; HIV rate comparatively high in Philadelphia; Abortion laws liberalized in 16 countries since 1998; What if pro-choice Tom Ridge had been on the McCain ticket?; Birth attendants in Zambia.

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South Dakota Abortion Ban And Debate Analysis

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

October 27, 2008 - 9:23am

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Tiffany Campbell of South Dakota talks about her activism against the abortion ban, and how legal abortion allowed her to have her baby. Also: debate analysis, and the question of Sarah Palin and feminism.



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Rudy Giuliani Robocall Misleads, Implies Obama Soft on Rapists

By Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

October 22, 2008 - 6:45pm

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Rudy Giuliani has recorded a fear-mongering robocall for the McCain-Palin campaign that distorts Senator Barack Obama's stance on mandatory sentences for society's worst criminals.

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Roundup: McCain Is Party to Secret War on Contraception

By Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

October 22, 2008 - 10:31am

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McCain would likely continue the Bush administration's quiet war on contraception; Pro-life pharmacy opens in Virginia, will not dispense birth control; Catholics group explains why they think Obama is the real "pro-life" candidate; Outlook bleak for abortion rights in Northern Ireland; The myth of non-activist justices.

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Roundup: Abortion Rights and Equal Pay at Stake in the Election

By Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

October 21, 2008 - 9:44am

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The future of women's equality, including abortion rights and equal pay, are at stake in the election; Are Catholics shifting toward Obama?; Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier on the next steps in beating AIDS; 40 Days for Life protests clinics around the country; Dr. Karen Rayne's top ten things to do before you have sex.

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Roundup: Abortion Rises Again as Election Issue

By Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

October 17, 2008 - 9:32am

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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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McCain Ridicules Women's Health; Voters, Pundits Astonished

By Emily Douglas

October 16, 2008 - 2:47pm

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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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Roundup: Debate Analysis, Catholics Votes, and CA Newspapers Say No on Prop 4

By Emily Douglas

October 16, 2008 - 12:47pm

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Debate analysis; how Catholics should vote; California newspaper editorialize in opposition to parental notification.

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