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STOKING FIRE: Anti-Choice Group Joins Muslim Bashers

By Eleanor Bader, RH Reality Check

October 15, 2009 - 6:00am

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An anti-choice group has broadened its agenda to include a new bogey, Islam, and has aligned itself with an international team of fear-mongers to fight the religion’s spread. Unfortunately, they have many allies to help spread hatred.

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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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"Lady-Mags"--Love Them, Flaws and All, or Leave Them?

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

September 4, 2009 - 7:00am

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The paradox of women's glossies: They largely acknowledge our progress and rights in terms of the workplace, sexual freedom and reproductive rights, but only skim the surface of the sexist dynamics and expectations that inform those issues.

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Human Rights: When Officials Get Serious About HIV Prevention, This is Where They’ll Start

By Catherine Hanssens, Center for HIV Law and Policy

August 31, 2009 - 7:00am

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Stigma, discrimination, poverty, homophobia, racism, sexism, all fuel the spread of HIV and hurt those living with it. These issues are routinely cited as critical to ending the epidemic but rarely addressed in policies and prevention strategies.

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"Mad Men" Salon: America's Struggle with Race, Shaken Not Stirred

By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

August 14, 2009 - 7:00am

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Mad Men presents an exploration of race, class, and gender in the not-so-distant past that challenges the notion that all was well back in the day and keeps this fan coming back for more.

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Anti-Health Reform Racism: Not Just Wrong, But Stupid

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

August 11, 2009 - 7:00am

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I'm sure that the teabaggers/birthers/cute-nickname-for-right-wingers showing up at town hall events are instinctively aware of how much universal health care will benefit communities of color. And they're not having it.

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Reclaiming Choice for Native Women

By Jessica Yee, Racialicious

June 22, 2009 - 8:00am

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As a Native woman, I am entitled to advocate for choice from within my culture, which has always valued women's choices and decision-making.

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Vermont Parochial School Sniffs Out Pro-Choice Director, Cancels Anti-Racism Event

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

June 15, 2009 - 3:46pm

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This is not the first time a Catholic individual or organization has allowed intolerance to interfere with the Church’s message on loving our (black, gay, poor) neighbors, but it’s particularly embarrassing in this case.


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Report: Higher Rates of Unintended Pregnancy, Abortion Among Women of Color

By Sharon Camp, Guttmacher Institute

June 15, 2009 - 8:00am

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A new report provides strong evidence debunking claims by anti-choice activists that high abortion rates among minorities result from targeted marketing to minority communities.

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Sotomayor, Race and Gender: An Abortion Debate by Proxy

By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

June 12, 2009 - 8:00am

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Charges that racism and sexism might influence Judge Sotomayor's decision-making are a proxy for the far right's concerns about her positions on choice, discrimination, and immigration rights.

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