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"The Final Solution"? Gay Ugandans Could Face Death Penalty Under New Law

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

October 22, 2009 - 6:00am

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In Uganda, though homosexual acts are already illegal, a new bill would penalize homosexuality with tougher penalties - along the lines of life imprisonment and the death penalty.

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Majority Supports Obama's Stem Cell Decision

By Joe Veix, RH Reality Check

March 16, 2009 - 3:33pm

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Last week, President Obama lifted Bush's federal funding ban on stem cell research, and a majority of American voters rightly support the decision.


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Obama To Recind Bush's "Midnight Regulation"

By Joe Veix, RH Reality Check

March 2, 2009 - 3:20pm

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The law allowed healthcare professionals to refuse procedures on "moral grounds."


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Bush, Our Ex-Boyfriend

By Cristina Page, Moderator, OnCommonGround

January 17, 2009 - 8:00am

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The HHS regulations were a last minute, hastily executed, unconstitutionally vague, attempt by Bush to repay his only loyal constituency left, the religious right wing. And now the Obama administration may have their hands tied.

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The Time to Lift the Global Gag Rule Is Now

By Isaiah Ndong, EngenderHealth

December 23, 2008 - 8:00am

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While the Global Gag Rule was designed to reduce abortion, there's no evidence that it has. And the policy's domino effect has had negative effects on people's lives in ways that have nothing to do with abortion.

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The Last Hurrah? Final Stage for HHS Abortion Rule

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

December 5, 2008 - 12:42pm

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The HHS "midnight" rules that would allow health care providers and any employees of institutions that provide health care to "opt out" of participating in care, in any way, with which they do not agree is in its final stage of review, as of yesterday. It's the last hurrah for the Bush administration.

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Goodbye to Ideological Stem Cell Agenda, Guidelines for President-Elect Obama

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

December 4, 2008 - 7:42pm

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President-Elect Obama has an opportunity to cleanse the federal government of far too many ideological, non-scientifically based restrictions placed upon science by President Bush over the last eight years. One of these has to do with federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

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Mega-Church Pastor Flexes Political Muscle on World AIDS Day

By Lindsay Beyerstein, RH Reality Check

December 3, 2008 - 8:00am

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Rick Warren is positioning himself as the powerbroker who can muster support from the religious right for AIDS initiatives, and Obama will need bipartisan allies. The question is what concessions Warren will ask in return.

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Will Anti-Choice Forces Take Advantage of Bush Legacy?

By Nancy Northup, Center for Reproductive Rights

November 18, 2008 - 8:00am

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Even with victories on anti-choice initiatives, and even with this election, individual state legislatures remain dangerous arenas in which we struggle to preserve every woman's rights.

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"You Have Failed Entirely", Says Planned Parenthood and ACLU

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

November 17, 2008 - 4:44pm

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The Bush administration promised not to issue any more regulations after June 1, 2008. In August 2008, the administration released proposed regulations that would allow providers to redefine abortion as contraception. While 200,000 Americans registered their thoughts during the 30-day commenting period, the clock is ticking. Now Planned Parenthood, the ACLU and the Center for Reproductive Rights says it's enough.

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