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Roundup: Roeder Convicted, Mississippi Adds Personhood Amendment to Ballot

April 2, 2010 - 11:19am (Print)

Scott Roeder remains unrepentant throughout his sentencing hearing for the murder of Dr. George Tiller and Mississippi joins Colorado in putting a personhood constitutional amendment on the ballot.

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Researcher Backs Pope, Both Are Still Wrong

by Joe Veix, RH Reality Check

March 23, 2009 - 2:25pm (Print)

A distinguished AIDS researcher backs the Pope's comments that the AIDS epidemic is made worse by condom use. His logic and his motives are questionable.

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Outrage Over Pope's Condom Comments

by Joe Veix, RH Reality Check

March 20, 2009 - 2:25pm (Print)

The Daily Show and others respond to the Pope's outrageous claim that condoms increase the AIDS epidemic in Africa.

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From Cameroun to the Pope: Reality Check Please

by Damaris Mounlom, International Women's Health Coalition

March 20, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

If the Catholic Church wants to stem new HIV/AIDS infections in Africa, they must recognize that women and girls are more vulnerable to new infections than their male peers because the "liberation of women" has not yet been fully realized.

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With the Future of a Continent in His Hands, the Pope Fumbles

by Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

March 18, 2009 - 11:25am (Print)

In the interest of orthodoxy, the Church is neglecting its humanitarian responsibility, particularly in Africa and other places where it holds sway.

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The New, Progressive Spain

by Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

March 5, 2009 - 3:55pm (Print)

Legalized abortion in Catholic Spain? Maybe the times really are changing.

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