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The Real Scandal

Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check on March 20, 2008 - 9:40am
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Until Americans, and our media, stop insisting that our male leaders be a manly and upright family fellow with a docile wife who gazes at him adoringly, we shouldn't be surprised when that spouse remains devoted in the face of infidelity.


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Three Days Before Caucus Night And...

Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow on December 31, 2007 - 10:11am
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It's caucus week and with just three days to go Iowa phones are ringing off the hook and GOP front-runners Romney and Huckabee continue to trade barbs.


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Making AIDS Political

Masimba Biriwasha, RH Reality Check, Africa & Asia on December 7, 2007 - 10:25am
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Genuine political will to fight the epidemic at all levels, along with an allocation of resources that are consistently monitored and accounted for, is critical to an effective AIDS response.


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Targeting Reproductive Rights

Julie Burkhart, ProKanDo on August 8, 2007 - 7:49am
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The U.S. House of Representatives approved a new initiative last week, which is aimed at discouraging women from getting abortions by providing them with new sets of government support.


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Bush and SCHIP: It’s Also About Fetuses

Carole Joffe, University of California on August 6, 2007 - 9:31am
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Republican Senators Orrin Hatch and Chuck Grassley have "implored" George Bush not to follow through with his promised veto of the expansion of SCHIP, the State Children's Health Insurance Program.


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Paternal Consent Bill Proposed in Ohio

Eesha Pandit, RH Reality Check on August 6, 2007 - 9:00am
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Let the battle for "Most Outrageous Piece of Legislation" begin! A group of Ohio state legislators have submitted a bill that would ban women from obtaining abortions without consent from the man who impregnated her.


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Should We "De-politicize" Reproductive Health?

Dana Goldstein, RH Reality Check on July 30, 2007 - 3:54pm
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Dana Goldstein responds to a commenter who chided her for caring about the distinctions between the presidential candidates on reproductive health. Is our enemy politicization?


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Helen Thomas Laments State of Individual Liberties

Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow on July 27, 2007 - 9:00am
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Veteran journalist Helen Thomas is worried about what she describes as the current "chipping away" of individual rights by the Bush administration and the U.S. Supreme Court.


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The Pathophysiology of our National Health Conversation

Andrea Lynch, RH Reality Check on July 25, 2007 - 8:50am
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There's been a whole lot of press over the past few weeks about James D. Holsinger, the Kentucky physician who President Bush nominated in May to serve as the next U.S. Surgeon General.


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State Reproductive Health Policy at Midyear

Rachel Gold and..., Guttmacher Institute on July 19, 2007 - 9:05am
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Reproductive health advocates at the state level made significant progress in two areas: better access to emergency contraception and comprehensive sex education.


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