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What was Your Sex-Ed Like? Submit a Video!

Amie Newman, RH Reality Check on December 20, 2007 - 10:02am

The deadline for our Fresh Focus: Sex Ed Digital Video Contest has been extended! Tell us about your sex-ed experience; win cool prizes and maybe even a trip to San Francisco to screen your video!

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1 Peru Addresses Indigenous Women's Reproductive Rights

By Karim Velasco on May 22, 2008 - 8:00am | 0 comments

For indigenous women in the Andean and Amazonian areas of Peru, giving birth at health care facilities, in the presence of strangers and lying down, is unbearable. New standards in health care delivery better respect their rights and traditions.

A Better Health Agenda for the Americas

By Alexander Sanger on May 22, 2008 - 8:00am | 0 comments

The new "Health Agenda for the Americas" is more significant for what it omits: sexuality education, safe abortion access, emergency contraception, and measures to combat domestic violence, than for what it addresses.

Birth Control "Options": Just Like Tex-Mex?

By Amanda Marcotte on May 22, 2008 - 8:00am | 0 comments

Women seeking a contraceptive method that's effective, reversible, and doesn't require you to fiddle with devices in the middle of a sexual encounter seem to have a myriad of options. But the majority of those options are variations on the Pill.

2 Saving a Last Resort

By Katherine Spillar on May 21, 2008 - 8:00am | 1 comment

With anti-abortion forces bearing down on him, Dr. George Tiller fights for his patients’ privacy -- and their lives.

A Conversation With Abortion Rights Pioneer Dr. Ken Edelin

By Alexa Stanard on May 21, 2008 - 8:00am | 3 comments

Thirty years ago, Dr. Ken Edelin nearly went to jail for performing a legal abortion. Today, he's speaking out about current threats to abortion rights in the United States.

In Jamaica and Globally AIDS Stigma Barrier to Progress

By Masimba Biriwasha on May 21, 2008 - 8:00am | 1 comment

In Jamaica, as in many parts of the world, HIV and AIDS create a specter of fear and persecution leading to stigma, discrimination and, for many, the concealment of the disease.

3 Child Marriage: We Have Solutions

By Kathy Selvaggio on May 20, 2008 - 8:00am | 0 comments

We know what works to increase age of marriage in communities where child marriage is common. So why are so few Republicans backing legislation to support those development programs?

Taking 'Baby Mothers' For Granted

By Danielle Toppin on May 20, 2008 - 8:00am | 0 comments

Because we live in societies that conceive of motherhood as "natural," policymakers haven't created adequate support systems for our diverse needs.

Anti-Choice Ballot Initiative Watch: 2008

By Dana Goldstein on May 20, 2008 - 8:00am | 0 comments

Anti-choicers are circumventing the legislative and judicial systems by placing abortion bans right on the ballot.

4 Who's Trafficked?

By Melissa Ditmore on May 19, 2008 - 8:00am | 0 comments

Congress is poised to re-authorize the federal law against human trafficking with new provisions that will both increase penalties for sex workers and effectively decrease our ability to aid genuine victims of trafficking.

Teen Moms Mainstreamed as P Schools Vanish

By Pamela Merritt on May 19, 2008 - 8:00am | 3 comments

One third of young women who drop out of high school cite pregnancy and/or motherhood as the reason. But in recent years, special schools for pregnant students have been phased out in favor of mainstreaming. What's next?

Surrogacy Bill Passes Minnesota Legislature

By Andy Birkey on May 19, 2008 - 8:00am | 0 comments

A bill to set the ground rules for contracts between gestational carriers and intended parents passed the Minnesota House last Monday, but only after issues such as abortion and gay adoption made their way into the debate.

5 The Maverick Steps Back in Line

By Carole Joffe on May 16, 2008 - 8:00am | 2 comments

If John McCain insists on placating the anti-choice fanatics in his party, let him start paying a price.

Reducing Maternal Mortality Is Easy with Safe Abortion

By Alicia Meulensteen on May 16, 2008 - 8:00am | 1 comment

Reducing maternal deaths from unsafe abortion is one of the most straight-forward public health problems to remedy. But this can never be fully realized unless governments start including abortion in realistic approaches to protecting women's health.

Using "States' Rights" to Restrict Abortion

By Wendy Norris on May 15, 2008 - 8:00am | 4 comments

Conservative activists are gearing up to enact state laws to restrict abortion. Colorado is once again serving as a political incubator in yet another attempt to chip away at Roe v. Wade, this time in the form of an amendment stating that life begins at conception.

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CWA, Family Research Council Decry Low-Cost Birth Control

Emily Douglas, RH Reality Check
May 22 2008 - 1:49pm | 0 comments
A fix for high birth control prices has been attached to an emergency war funding measure. CWA and FRC accuse Sen. Harry Reid of not supporting our troops.
Roundup: Far Right Left Out, More Hagee Controversy, Contraception

Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check
May 22 2008 - 10:14am | 0 comments
Christian conservatives feeling left out, catching up on contraception, John Hagee calls Hitler an instrument of God.
Bush Ally Susan Orr Resigns Amid Controversy

Emily Douglas, RH Reality Check
May 21 2008 - 4:42pm | 3 comments
Dr. Susan Orr, the anti-contraception head of our federal family planning program and former Family Research Council staffer, stepped down today.

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