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DCCC Chair Van Hollen Urges Stupak to Run for Re-Election

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

January 13, 2010 - 10:49pm (Print)

Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich) of "can't-do-enough-to-help-the-Bishops-strip-women-of-their-rights" fame, tells CQ that DCCC Chair Van Hollen (D-Md) is urging him to "run for re-election," proving to women that the Dems have our backs....to the firing squad.

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In Health Reform, Abortion Not the Only Fight

by Jennifer Block, RH Reality Check

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

A society that would force a woman to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term would also force her to have major abdominal surgery.

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The Handmaid's Tale Comes to Life

by Lucinda Marshall, Feminist Peace Network

January 6, 2010 - 7:00am (Print)

The hijacking of abortion rights as a bargaining chip for the provision of health care is morally reprehensible and if it stands will result in significant harms to women’s health. Yet this is only one aspect of reproductive rights.

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The Nelson "Compromise:" What It Will Cost Us

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

December 20, 2009 - 2:50pm (Print)

By catering to Nelson, the Bishops, and fundamentalists, the Senate aided the anti-choice forces in achieving one of their primary goals: further stigmatizing reproductive and sexual health care, and making it harder for women to get.

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Stupak Double-crosses Senate Dems on Health Care

by Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check

December 19, 2009 - 3:04pm (Print)

An email chain leaked to Politco reveals the depths to which anti-choice Rep. Bart Stupak will go to place unprecedented restrictions on abortion services in the proposed health care reform bill.

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Men: Invisible Allies in the Struggle for Choice

by Claire Keyes

December 15, 2009 - 11:24am (Print)

About half of women choosing abortion bring a man along. Some bring their brother, dad, grandfather, uncle, friend or boss; most who bring a man bring their partner. More men would have accompanied the women had they not stayed home to care for the other child or children (most women choosing abortion already have at least one child), or they are working, or she preferred to have her friend or mother with her.

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NYT Letter to Editor by Congresswoman Capps Rebuts Stupak Editorial

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

December 14, 2009 - 11:53am (Print)

The NYT published a Letter to the Editor by Congresswoman Capps published this weekend rebutting points made by Cong. Stupak in his editorial last week.

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Nelson: FAIL

by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

December 13, 2009 - 11:26pm (Print)

Diana Kasdan from the ACLU on prisoner's rights to healthy pregnancies. Also, Anderson Cooper shoots straight on abortion, and "Sex, Really" romanticizes abstinence.

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Bishops: "Deplore Defeat of Nelson Amendment, Working To Maintain Stupak"

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

December 11, 2009 - 9:33am (Print)

On Wednesday, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement calling defeat of the Nelson-Hatch-Casey amendment a "grave mistake," and underscoring that they continue to work toward maintainingg Stupak Amendment language in the final bill.

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Stupak's NYT Op-Ed: Congresswoman Capps Responds

by Rep. Lois Capps

December 10, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

Yesterday's NYT op-ed by Rep. Bart Stupak made misleading claims about the Stupak-Pitts Amendment. Here, Congresswoman Lois Capps (D-CA), author of the Capps Amendment, provides a reality check to his claims.

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