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What Are They Doing Out There? Misguided, Sometimes Dangerous "Prayer Warriors" Abrogate Human Rights

by Lon Newman, Family Planning Health Services

March 21, 2011 - 8:30pm (Print)

“What are they doing out there?” So-called prayer warriors misinform and mislead the public, intimidate clients, and prevent people from exercising their rights to health care.

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Sexual Health Education 101 Quiz

by Lon Newman, Family Planning Health Services

October 3, 2010 - 6:00am (Print)

Public education is about education. In our public debate about sexual health education, what is most important is to respect public education's core values of evidence, science and reason.

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Hypocritical Circular Rants

reader diary by pheasantweber, University of Illinois at Chicago

March 8, 2010 - 1:55pm (Print)

Don't read this unless you like rants about why the world sucks

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Women of Color and the Anti-Choice Focus on Eugenics

by Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

February 12, 2010 - 7:00am (Print)

Women of color are not children unable to make decisions and our children are not "on the brink of extinction" through an organized genocidal plot.

Follow Pamela Merritt on Twitter, @SharkFu

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Let's Talk About Sex, Says New Religious Institute Report

by Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check

February 11, 2010 - 7:00am (Print)

Encouraging spiritual leaders and congregations to promote open, factual discussions on sex, sexuality and social justice is the focus of a new report by the Religious Institute.

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Can You Hear Us Now?

by Jessica Arons and Shira Saperstein, Center for American Progress

January 22, 2010 - 10:14am (Print)

There is no opportunity to change hearts and minds when social progressives ignore or avoid the toughest issues. And in failing to take these issues on, we also fail to improve access to contraception, medically accurate sex education, pre- and post-natal care, birthing options, child care, paid family leave, and so much more.

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Policies to Curb Latina Teen Pregnancies Have Failed

by Silvia Henriquez, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health

September 17, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

Latina teens give birth at a rate more than twice that of white teens. Many of the policies intended to address this are misguided and have been largely ineffective. We need a dramatically different approach.

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International Aid, Made Local

by Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

September 15, 2009 - 6:50am (Print)

By using the peer-to-peer model, the Minnesota International Health Volunteers program avoids, or at least reduces, public health obstacles that arise when there’s a culture clash.

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Husband and Wife Abstinence-Only Execs "Marry" Federal Funding Contracts

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

March 17, 2009 - 10:40am (Print)

A husband and wife abstinence-only-until-marriage education team appear to find ways to keep your tax dollars in their family.

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