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Women Need Health Care Reform, Stat!

By Dr. Willie Parker, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health

September 16, 2009 - 8:00am

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Too often, I find myself telling patients with easily treatable conditions that I can’t help them -- they don’t have the money to get well and it rips me apart. That’s why I am an ardent advocate for health care reform.

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Apparently You Don't Need an Annual Pap Smear Anymore

Reader diary posted by spasulka

April 16, 2009 - 3:25am

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I thought I needed to do this uncomfortable procedure once a year until a doctor informed me otherwise.


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Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act = (Reproductive) Justice

By Amie Newman, RH Reality Check

January 6, 2009 - 6:34pm

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The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is at the top of the sworn-in-today's 111th Congress' list. Ensuring wage equity for women is inextricably linked to women's health.

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Inaccurate Pap Smear Results Common in Colombia

By Angela Castellanos, RH Reality Check, Latin America

October 1, 2008 - 8:00am

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A majority of Colombian women get Pap smears, but new studies show that ten percent of such tests administered in Colombia yield inaccurate results.

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Female Vets Fight on the Frontlines - for Health Care

By Amie Newman, RH Reality Check

June 19, 2008 - 8:54pm

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Female soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan face a lack of reproductive and mental health services from the Veterans Administration. And the Veterans Administration is hesitant in its efforts to remedy the issue.

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Care That Is Unbiased and Without Judgment

By Pamela Pizarro, RH Reality Check, North America

March 14, 2008 - 9:54am

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Women’s access to unbiased, medically-sound reproductive health care in Canada is being compromised by doctors hiding behind conscience clauses to refuse services and referrals.


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In Canada, Some Doctors Refuse to Do Paps

By Pamela Pizarro, RH Reality Check, North America

February 22, 2008 - 9:48am

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Think that religious policing only applies to abortion and contraceptives? Doctors in Canada are now refusing to perform pap smears on young women, citing "religious beliefs."


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