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RNC To Eliminate Abortion Coverage in Health Plan, Undermining Rights of Female Employees

By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor

November 13, 2009 - 8:13am

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Washington Monthly reports this morning that the RNC, which has provided coverage for abortion care for its employees for over 18 years and was suddenly "caught out" this week, is now proceeding to remove that coverage from its policy. But even so the RNC will still indirectly subsidize abortions, every time it writes a check to Cigna, thereby rejecting the reasoning of the Stupak amendment at a fundamental level.

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Anti-Choice "Egg-as-Person" Initiatives Threaten the Rights Of Women

By Joseph Boven, Colorado Independent

November 12, 2009 - 9:53am

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“We know, based on hundreds of cases across the country, some of them in Colorado, that if, as a matter of law fetuses are described as separate persons, essentially pregnant women lose their Personhood,” says Lynn Paltrow.

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Harkin: Stupak Amendment A Slippery Slope

By Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow

November 10, 2009 - 2:33pm

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Stupak-Pitts is a slippery slope: For example, every health insurance company in America could now lose some of its tax benefits. And you could just say that anybody that got a federal loan for housing could not get an abortion.

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Midwestern Health Advocates Speak Out on Stupak-Pitts

By Robin Marty, RH Reality Check

November 10, 2009 - 2:18pm

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Pro-choice advocates abided by an agreement not to seek changes to the Hyde Amendment in health reform. Anti-choice factions broke their end of the bargain.

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Notorious Extremist Weslin and Others Arrested at Capitol

By Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check

November 6, 2009 - 6:00am

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Notorious anti-abortion activist Father Norman Weslin was among a dozen protesters arrested by U.S. Capitol Police outside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district office Thursday at a raucous protest against the health reform bill.

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Do Diploid Dave and Zelinda Zygote Get Equal Protection?

By Robert Gladd

November 4, 2009 - 2:31pm

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The current language of the Constitution extends full protection only to "persons born or naturalized" here, stating additionally that "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." As Supreme Court Justice Scalia has said: "I think when the Constitution says that persons are entitled to equal protection of the laws, I think it clearly means walking-around persons. You don't count pregnant women twice."

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Coming to Terms with Abortion Addiction

By Mandy Van Deven, RH Reality Check

November 3, 2009 - 8:00am

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Mandy Van Deven interviews Irene Vilar about her book, Impossible Motherhood, and her self-described history as an "abortion addict."

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"What If My Mother Had Aborted Me?"

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

November 3, 2009 - 6:00am

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“How would you like it if your mother had an abortion?” ask anti-choicers, without realizing that’s like asking, “How would you like it if the night you were conceived, your dad decided to go to bed early while your mom watched Johnny Carson?”

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A Different Kind of Bake Sale: Anti-Choice Extremists Plan eBay Auction for Roeder's Defense

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

October 27, 2009 - 6:00am

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Militant anti-choice activists are organizing an eBay auction so that fans of murdering your political opponents can buy souvenirs and help pay for the defense of Scott Roeder.

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National 'Personhood' Backers Barnstorm Montana With One Big Exception

By Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check

October 19, 2009 - 6:00am

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Three major players in the absolutist anti-choice movement headed to Montana last weekend to push a second attempt at a state ballot measure to ban abortion without exception. But the meeting excluded one noteworthy group.

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