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The First of All Liberties: Health Care For All Women’s Needs

By Eesha Pandit, MergerWatch

November 11, 2009 - 7:00am

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Why care about women’s health in health care reform? As 19th century Swiss poet and philosopher Henri Frederic Amiel wrote: “In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.”

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"This Is Only the First Salvo In the Bishops Campaign Against Women's Health"

By Jon O'Brien, Catholics for Choice

November 8, 2009 - 9:58am

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This is only the first salvo in the bishops’ campaign against women’s health. Just imagine for a moment what healthcare will look like when the bishops are finished.

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Uprising Radio Asks Wendy Norris: Where's the Meat of the Media Discussion on Shriver Report?

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

October 22, 2009 - 1:31pm

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Listen to RH Reality Check's Wendy Norris on KPTK's Uprising Radio this morning as she delves into why the media has almost completely ignored women's distressing health care disparities when discussing The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything.

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Abortion Remains A Foil for Opponents of Reform

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

October 21, 2009 - 6:00am

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All the sexual health-specific sturm und drang around the process of health reform over the past few months has resulted in a set of bills all of which that take roughly the same “abortion neutral” approach.

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VIDEO: Klobuchar Joins Senate Push for Women’s Health

By Andy Birkey, New Journalist Fellow

October 20, 2009 - 9:35am

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar is one of several female Democratic senators demanding that health insurance disparities that impact women be eliminated as part of the health reform packages being debated in Congress.

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What does health care reform mean to you?

Reader diary posted by Erica Sackin, Planned Parenthood of New York City

October 19, 2009 - 4:41pm

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No matter what the result of health care reform, our lives will be profoundly affected. So how do we make sure our voices are heard, and that things essential to our health aren't left behind? Why through photos, of course.


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Roundup: Global Leaders Talk Women's Health at UN Meetings, Gardasil Blocks Border for Young Woman

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

September 23, 2009 - 10:46am

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UN Meetings and Clinton Global Initiative on climate change and maternal health, Gardasil's border issue, and news from around the web.

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Poverty Underscores Need for Reform

Reader diary posted by PlannedParenthoodAdvocate, Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota Action Fund

September 23, 2009 - 6:00am

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Health care reform can help level the playing field for women who have been overlooked for too long. Simply put, women must not be left out of the most important public policy discussion of a generation.


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Funding Commitments for Women Announced at Clinton Global Initiative

By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor

September 22, 2009 - 2:32pm

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The formal start of the Clinton Global Initiative, which begins with a plenary featuring President Obama, President Clinton, President Michelle Bachelet of Chile and others, is less than an hour away. But there have already been announcements of commitments to and calls for funding for women and girls, a key theme of this year's meeting.

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Health care reform must address health care challenges faced by rural women

Reader diary posted by PlannedParenthoodAdvocate, Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota Action Fund

August 27, 2009 - 2:38pm

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“I can’t fill my prescription because I have to buy groceries.” One
needs only to spend a day in any one of our health care centers to hear
stories just like this and to see the need for meaningful health care
reform.


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