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As Thunder Is Not Yet Rain, In Ethiopia, Legal Rights to Abortion Are Not Yet Access

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

April 21, 2009 - 9:00am

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Filmmaker Lisa Russell talks to RH Reality Check about "Not Yet Rain," a new documentary examining the impact of liberalized abortion laws in Ethiopia.

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A Plan for Women's Rights for a New Bolivia

By Teresa Lanza and Gladys Melo-Pinzon, Catholics for Choice

March 16, 2009 - 8:00am

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As countries around the world celebrated International Women's Day last week, the Bolivian government launched a new equal rights and opportunities plan for women.

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Excommunicate Me

By Emily Douglas, RH Reality Check

March 10, 2009 - 5:11pm

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If there is no room in the Catholic Church for doctors who would provide an abortion to a nine-year-old incest survivor pregnant with twins, then there is no room for me, Brazilian Catholics are saying.

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House Panel in South Carolina Approves 24-Hour Waiting Periods

By Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

February 5, 2009 - 5:12pm

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Last Tuesday a South Carolina House panel approved a law that would require women to submit to an ultrasound and wait 24 hours before receiving an abortion. What's next? A state-mandated cup of tea with my mother before I can buy condoms?

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"Jailhouse Journal" of an Abortion Provider

By Marcy Bloom, GIRE

January 17, 2009 - 9:00am

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What motivates an abortion provider? What brings an individual to this important - and regretfully still controversial - practice of medicine? The answers are as varied as the brave doctors who do the work of helping women.

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Americans Demand Justice, Even When the Supreme Court Doesn't

By Liza Fuentes, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health

October 23, 2008 - 8:00am

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We do not allow the government to deny us the right to vote because we are poor, nor are we denied the right to freedom of religion because we cannot afford it. So why is the right to an abortion, one explicitly protected by the Constitution, any different?

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Tragic Epidemic: Unsafe Abortion in Senegal

By Amy Karafin, Ms. Magazine

May 27, 2008 - 5:01am

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In Dakar, word on the street is that surgical abortion can kill you, and the link between abortion and fatality defines Senegal's reproductive reality.

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Need Abortion, Will Travel

By Marcy Bloom, GIRE

February 25, 2008 - 9:47am

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Many pregnant women and girls are virtually forced to become abortion tourists. Though the term is often used in sexist and disparaging ways, what it really reveals is that women's reproductive health needs are being ignored.


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