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Daily Pulse: Public Option Is Alive and Kicking

By Lindsay Beyerstein, RH Reality Check

September 28, 2009 - 12:23pm

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Reports of the death of the public option were greatly exaggerated. In fact, Democrats now have a chance to move further to the left. Also, can reproductive choice help reverse climate change?

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Failing African American Mothers and Babies

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

September 25, 2009 - 6:00am

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September is Infant Mortality Awareness Month. It's a good time to explore a woefully under-addressed topic: the shocking disparity between the maternal and infant mortality rates of Blacks and Whites. 


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Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota Action Fund at President Obama's Rally in Minneapolis

Reader diary posted by PlannedParenthoodAdvocate, Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota Action Fund

September 22, 2009 - 11:13am

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Check out Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota Action Fund's latest videos from President Obama's health care reform rally in Minneapolis!

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Daily Pulse: Deep Six the Gang of Six

By Lindsay Beyerstein, RH Reality Check

September 2, 2009 - 8:39am

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More news from the health care reform debate: from the fraudulent groups supporting the town-hall brawls to the fraud behind 'crisis pregnancy centers', Lindsay Beyerstein brings it all together, in one place!

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Putting the Option in Adoption

By Corinna Lohser, Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children

June 18, 2009 - 8:00am

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One of President Obama's key common ground proposals focuses on making adoption more accessible. But what does that mean? And how do reproductive health and justice advocates work towards accomplishing the goal?

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Ground We've Already Covered

By Debra Haffner, Religious Institute

June 17, 2009 - 8:00am

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The real moral challenge we face is how to ensure access to the means to prevent unintended pregnancies - specifically comprehensive sexuality education, universal access to contraceptive services, including emergency contraception, and education and employment opportunities for young women.

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Pregnancy Planning and Prevention: the Big Picture

Reader diary posted by The_National_Campaign, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy

June 16, 2009 - 9:02am

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Health reform must include pregnancy planning and prevention
services, which will improve health, strengthen families, improve child
well-being, enhance our workforce, and reduce taxpayer burden.


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Common Ground Rules

By Rachel Laser, Third Way

June 16, 2009 - 8:00am

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The Third Way has discovered that there are four steps towards achieving long-lasting common ground - no matter what the issue.

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My Common Ground Fantasy

By Steven Waldman, Beliefnet

June 16, 2009 - 8:00am

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My common ground fantasy involves both pro-life and pro-choice leaders taking certain premises of each other's movements more seriously in order to break the conceptual logjam we've created.

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Higher Ground

By Cristina Page, Moderator, OnCommonGround

June 16, 2009 - 8:00am

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The best answer to Dr. Tiller's murder is to build a national conversation focused on progress, a national dialogue on common ground. We invite you to enter into this experimental discussion knowing that we'll make mistakes but, above all, that it is worth pursuing.

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