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Shifting the Blame onto Victims

Deepali Gaur Singh, RH Reality Check, Asia on April 18, 2008 - 9:51am

Latest reports by India's National Crime Records Bureau found a seven-fold increase in rape cases between 1971 and 2006. But the agencies that should ensure safe environments for women make excuses for perpetrators and resort to moral policing rather than finding ways to make women safer.

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Iowa Law Won't Protect Kids from Sex Offenders

Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow on April 17, 2008 - 9:43am

Was the opinion issued Friday by the Iowa Supreme Court an expansion or a clarification of the state's existing residency requirements for sex offenders? At the end of the day, according to some members of law enforcement, it doesn't matter one way or another.

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Get Real! Healing from Rape

Heather Corinna, Scarleteen.com on April 11, 2008 - 9:49am

Heather Corinna brings Scarleteen's popular sexual health advice column to RH Reality Check! This week, in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, she talks to a young women who was forced to have sex.

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Take Back the Screen

Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check on April 10, 2008 - 9:45am

In order to raise awareness of sexual assault, we have to look at the images of violent sexuality embedded in our popular visual culture, images that trivialize and misrepresent reality.

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War With Ourselves: Sexual Violence In The Military

Dana Goldstein, RH Reality Check on April 8, 2008 - 9:47am

U.S. servicewomen today are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. Sexual violence against female contractors, soldiers and Iraqi girls and women continues to raise the question: what will we do to stop it?

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Powerless in Prison: Sexual Abuse Against Incarcerated Women

Nicole Summer, RH Reality Check on December 11, 2007 - 10:17am

Surviving a sexual assault and then navigating the health care system to receive adequate counseling and reproductive medical attention is daunting enough for those who walk freely on the outside. For women in prison, these hurdles can seem insurmountable.

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VA To Open Center for Sexual Assault Survivors

Emily Douglas, RH Reality Check on November 12, 2007 - 9:15am

Just in time for Veterans Day, the Department of Veterans Affairs has made a long-overdue institutional commitment to addressing the needs of veterans who are survivors of sexual assault occurring within the military.

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News & Commentary

1 The Maverick Steps Back in Line

By Carole Joffe on May 16, 2008 - 8:00am | 1 comment

If John McCain insists on placating the anti-choice fanatics in his party, let him start paying a price.

Reducing Maternal Mortality Is Easy with Safe Abortion

By Alicia Meulensteen on May 16, 2008 - 8:00am | 0 comments

Reducing maternal deaths from unsafe abortion is one of the most straight-forward public health problems to remedy. But this can never be fully realized unless governments start including abortion in realistic approaches to protecting women's health.

Get Real! I Hate Being a Girl. What's Wrong?

By Heather Corinna on May 16, 2008 - 8:00am | 0 comments

Heather Corinna brings Scarleteen's popular sexual health advice column to RH Reality Check! This week, Heather talks to a young woman who doesn't like being a girl.

2 Using "States' Rights" to Restrict Abortion

By Wendy Norris on May 15, 2008 - 8:00am | 3 comments

Conservative activists are gearing up to enact state laws to restrict abortion. Colorado is once again serving as a political incubator in yet another attempt to chip away at Roe v. Wade, this time in the form of an amendment stating that life begins at conception.

Pregnant Trans People Need Care, Not Media Circus

By Erin Wilkins on May 15, 2008 - 8:00am | 5 comments

Pregnancies, both planned and unplanned, happen to trans folks, too. It is imperative for reproductive health care providers to seek appropriate education and training in order to be able to provide comprehensive care to these patients.

Retrograde "Iron Man" Hits the Big Screen

By Sarah Seltzer on May 15, 2008 - 8:00am | 7 comments

Given the alarmingly sexist and racist undercurrents rearing their heads in this presidential election, it's not illogical to look at "Iron Man" and see a reflection, and perpetuation, of prejudices that just won't die.

3 The Prison of Mandatory Pleasure Provision

By Amanda Marcotte on May 14, 2008 - 8:00am | 6 comments

What would happen if our right to abortion hinged on the right to sexual pleasure rather than on a penumbra? Ecuador might just find out.

Sexualizing Tweens for Profit: A Q&A with Gigi Durham

By T. M. Lindsey on May 14, 2008 - 8:00am | 15 comments

Journalism professor Gigi Durham talks to T.M. Lindsey about the media messages hitting teen girls, teen sexuality, and "Grand Theft Auto."

Debate Rages in Minnesota House As Stem-Cell Funding Passes

By Andy Birkey on May 14, 2008 - 8:00am | 0 comments

The Minnesota House last Wednesday passed a bill that would allow the University of Minnesota to use state funds to conduct research using embryonic stem cells. The measure prompted a flurry of amendments by anti-choice Republicans designed to derail the bill.

4 Domestic Gag Rule? Déjà Vu All Over Again

By Marilyn Keefe on May 13, 2008 - 11:55am | 1 comment

Last week, nearly 80 conservative groups led by the Family Research Council asked President Bush to strip family planning clinics of their eligibility for Title X funds if they refer patients for abortions or share facilities with abortion providers -- which would bring the global gag rule home.

When Getting Pregnant Isn't About Being a Mother

By Angela Castellanos on May 13, 2008 - 8:29am | 0 comments

In Colombia, young women may be getting pregnant intentionally -- but not necessarily because they want to become mothers. Sexuality education advocates differ on how best to tailor a pregnancy prevention and sexual health curriculum to reach Colombian teens.

Pedaling into Local Reproductive Justice Activism

By Nora Dye and Shelby Knox on May 13, 2008 - 8:26am | 0 comments

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On May 26, the Wanderlust reproductive justice bicycle caravan will set off on an 1800 mile journey from New Orleans to New York City, meeting with and learning from reproductive justice activists along the way.

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Midwives May No Longer Be Felons In Missouri?

Amie Newman, RH Reality Check
May 16 2008 - 7:02pm | 1 comment
Midwives in Missouri may go from felons to legal health care providers if the legislation that has passed the MO Senate today also passes the House.
GOP Candidate Who Paid for Abortion Asked to Quit Race

Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check
May 16 2008 - 4:37pm | 0 comments
Oregon Right to Life calls on anti-choice candidate who paid for girlfriend's abortion two years ago to quit race. But they sat on the story for two years.
Anti-Family Planning Org's Unholy Alliance

Amie Newman, RH Reality Check
May 16 2008 - 1:50pm | 1 comment
The Family Research Council is petitioning our government to severely restrict federal funds for our contraception and family planning program - a program that is headed by one of their own.

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