pregnant women
The Polish Ministry
of Health is presenting new threatening plans that would limit protection for
women and children within the existing healthcare system.
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Reader diary posted by Anna Clark, RH Reality Check July 6, 2009 - 10:20am
Only four states have policies that bar the shackling of pregnant women in prisons, jails, and detention centers.
With nearly unanimous legislative support for the Anti-Shackling Bill,
New York looks like its on the verge of becoming the fifth state to
restrict a practice that is considered torture by the United
Nations--but only if Governor Dave Paterson allows it into law. Urge Governor Paterson to sign the bill at the Anti-Shackling Rally on July 9.
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Will the Senate Judiciary Committee ask Sotomayor about her position on Roe's role in protecting all the rights of pregnant women?
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A judge puts an HIV-positive pregnant woman in prison based solely on his concern for her unborn child, implicitly questioning her ability to protect her and her baby's health.
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By Lynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) April 24, 2009 - 8:00am
Why are the legislators -- who profess to care so much about pregnant women -- only willing to "protect" women who plan to end their pregnancies from coercion, and not those those who intend to go to term?
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The main purpose of of Oklahoma's proposed self-defense bill for pregnant women is to create a long trail of laws that define a fetus as an "unborn child" that deserves state protection.
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By Lynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) March 26, 2009 - 7:00am
Supporters of "egg-as-person" laws don't mention that if the unborn have legal personhood rights, pregnant women won't.
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The only correct vote on the Colorado bill to mandate HIV testing for pregnant women was cast by an ignorant bigot for all the wrong reasons.
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I applaud Sebelius for considering the needs of pregnant women in Kansas.
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By Ernest Luning, New Journalist Fellow February 25, 2009 - 4:25pm
Colorado Democrats were outraged Wednesday morning when Republican state Sen. Dave Schultheis said he planned to vote against a bill to require HIV tests for pregnant women because the disease "stems from sexual promiscuity."
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