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What Would a Women's Issues Debate Look Like?

Sarah Seltzer on October 7, 2008 - 7:00am

Grab your popcorn and get ready to bang your head against the wall -- debate season is in full swing. RH Reality Check envisions the questions we wish the candidates would face before an audience of millions.

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1 But Can He Talk About Sex?

By Kay Steiger on Jan 9, 2009 - 8:00am | 0 comments

Where does future Surgeon General Dr. Sanjay Gupta stand on reproductive health? He has spoken out for emergency contraception, but reproductive health issues haven't gotten a starring role on "House Call."

Get Real! Healing and Dealing with Triggers as a Male Survivor

By Heather Corinna on Jan 9, 2009 - 8:00am | 7 comments

Rape isn't about "letting" something happen. It's about a profound violence someone else does to us, and it's something that happens to men and women, boys and girls.

Yes They Can't: Right Wing Fundamentalists Taste Change

By Cristina Page on Jan 8, 2009 - 4:16pm | 4 comments

Some in the anti-choice establishment have cautiously stuck a toe onto the common ground that Obama has suggested is findable. The Old Guard, by contrast, is inspired in another way.

2 Weekly Pulse: America's Next Top Doctor

By Lindsay E. Beyerstein on Jan 8, 2009 - 8:00am | 0 comments

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As surgeon general, Dr. Sanjay Gupta will be an effective public advocate for public health goals, but will he be a good administrator and an effective leader of America's public health professionals?

How to Restore America's Position as a Leader on Reproductive Rights

By Nancy Northup on Jan 8, 2009 - 8:00am | 0 comments

Our country's new vision for reproductive health needs to go beyond undoing the policies of the previous administration. Obama must work toward a world in which all women can participate with full dignity as equal members of society.

Live-In Relationships in India Accorded Legal Status

By Deepali Gaur Singh on Jan 8, 2009 - 8:00am | 0 comments

Removing the stigma accorded to live-in relationships takes into account the plight of women who have been tricked into marriage into socially ambiguous, sexually exploitative relationships.

3 On Abortion, Pro-Choice Is the Compromise Position

By Sam Sedaei on Jan 7, 2009 - 8:00am | 36 comments

President Obama has a unique opportunity to establish one important fact: abortion is as legal and legitimate of a medical operation as any, and the government needs to do what it can to help women have safe access to it.

The Economic Crisis: A Generation of Reproductive Health "Horror Stories"

By Carole Joffe on Jan 7, 2009 - 8:00am | 5 comments

From surrogacy and egg donation to inducing labor, the economic crisis is driving women to do things with their bodies that they otherwise would not do.

Anti-Abortion Postcard Campaign Stirs Up Catholics

By Andy Birkey on Jan 7, 2009 - 8:00am | 3 comments

Roman Catholic bishops throughout the United States are planning a postcard campaign days after the inauguration as part of an attempt to block the Freedom of Choice Act. One Minnesota priest is breaking rank, and getting flack.

4 Midwives Deliver

By Jennifer Block on Jan 6, 2009 - 8:00am | 11 comments

America is overspending and under-serving women and families. The problem is not access to care; it is the care itself.

Agenda for Compassion: Death With Dignity A Reproductive Justice Victory

By Logan Kelly on Jan 6, 2009 - 8:00am | 1 comment

Just as all women benefit from legal affirmation of their right to choose abortion, so do all terminally ill Americans benefit when they are free to make affirmative choices about how their lives will end.

Interpretations of Islamic Law Deny Women Choice in Indonesia and Malaysia

By Ramona Vijeyarasa on Jan 6, 2009 - 8:00am | 0 comments

In most Muslim-majority countries, abortion is generally prohibited with exceptions made where the health of the mother is at risk, but doctors often aren't aware of the legal exceptions.

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House Says Yes to Women's Wage Equity, Passes Ledbetter Act!

Emily Douglas, RH Reality Check
Jan 9 2009 - 2:15pm | 3 comments
The House today passed both the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act, restoring and establishing basic protections for employees who are subject to wage discrimination.
Roundup: Afghan Woman in Critical Condition after Unsafe Abortion; Don't Blames Movies for Teen Births

Emily Douglas, RH Reality Check
Jan 9 2009 - 11:11am | 0 comments
Afghan woman in critical condition after unsafe abortion; South Dakota legislators out of touch on abortion?; one-third of elective C-sections performed too early; abortion fatigue among evangelical Christians, too; don't blame movies for increase in teen birth rate.
HIV Activists/Gay Men Sentenced in Senegal: The Other Side of Rick Warren's "Humanitarian Issue"

Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check
Jan 8 2009 - 12:09pm | 6 comments
The distance between Pastor Rick Warren and the sentencing of nine gay HIV activists in Senegal can be measured in inches, not miles. This is a real humanitarian issue Pastor Warren, not a fight to protect the privilege of heterosexual marriage.

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What Would a Women's Issues Debate Look Like?

1

But Can He Talk About Sex?

Get Real! Healing and Dealing with Triggers as a Male Survivor

Yes They Can't: Right Wing Fundamentalists Taste Change

2

Weekly Pulse: America's Next Top Doctor

How to Restore America's Position as a Leader on Reproductive Rights

Live-In Relationships in India Accorded Legal Status

3

On Abortion, Pro-Choice Is the Compromise Position

The Economic Crisis: A Generation of Reproductive Health "Horror Stories"

Anti-Abortion Postcard Campaign Stirs Up Catholics

4

Midwives Deliver

Agenda for Compassion: Death With Dignity A Reproductive Justice Victory

Interpretations of Islamic Law Deny Women Choice in Indonesia and Malaysia

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Health Care Reform: Good for Patients, Good for Workers

Stemming Fistula: Social Contraception In Pakistan

Empowering Adolescents to Make Wise Sexual Choices

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House Says Yes to Women's Wage Equity, Passes Ledbetter Act!

Roundup: Afghan Woman in Critical Condition after Unsafe Abortion; Don't Blames Movies for Teen Births

HIV Activists/Gay Men Sentenced in Senegal: The Other Side of Rick Warren's "Humanitarian Issue"

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