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Countering the Town Hallers: A Physician Speaks Out

By Dr. Pratima Gupta, Physicians for Reproductive Health and Choice

August 28, 2009 - 7:00am

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I refuse to let the anti-health reform demonstrators represent me or my patients. As an ob/gyn, I can say unequivocally that our country needs health care reform now, and it must provide comprehensive reproductive health care to all.

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On Women's Equality Day, Sebelius, Barnes and Tchen Pushed on Reproductive Health Care Coverage

By Emily Douglas

August 26, 2009 - 3:15pm

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On a conference call in honor of Women's Equality Day, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Melody Barnes and Tina Tchen were repeatedly pressed on reproductive health care coverage under health care reform.

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Roundup: TIME Analyzes Government Role in Abortion Access in Health Reform Proposals

By Emily Douglas

August 25, 2009 - 9:00am

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TIME examines government's role in facilitating abortion access in health care reform proposals; medication abortion has not expanded access as expected; Australian provider refuses to prescribe RU-486 until legal protections are enacted.

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Abortion-Exclusive Health Care Reform Is Not Reform At All

By Erin Kate Ryan, National Network of Abortion Funds
Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund

August 20, 2009 - 7:00am

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All proposals to address the abortion funding question have one thing in common: they blithely disregard the effect of such proposals on the actual women and families who choose abortion.

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Bishops' Health Care Far From "Universal"

By Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

August 19, 2009 - 7:00am

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Does anyone else see the irony in the U.S. bishops wanting to define universal health care as covering everything except for what they don't support?

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Abortion "Neutrality" in Health Care Reform: Unfair and Unjust

By Debra Haffner, Religious Institute

August 18, 2009 - 7:00am

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A public health option without abortion coverage does not sound like neutrality to me -- it sounds like selling out women for political expediency, again.

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Aborting Health Care Reform

By Dana Goldstein, RH Reality Check

August 17, 2009 - 7:00am

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The president and his staff have been reluctant to take on reproductive rights in health reform. But that has not prevented anti-choicers from using the issue to activate their base against reform.

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Religious Groups Say "Abortion Mandate" Ads Mislead

By Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow

August 6, 2009 - 7:00am

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Two religious organizations have called on the Family Research Council to shut down a television ad and Web site that contain “massive misinformation” related to the national discussion on health care reform.

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Hyde Amendment Restrictions Impose Harsh Costs on Low-Income Latinas

By Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas and Liza Fuentes, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health

May 14, 2009 - 8:00am

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The White House's proposed budget condones a two-tier health system, in which women with private health insurance or private funds can exercise their right to an abortion, but poor women cannot.

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