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Abortion Providers = Women's Rights Defenders

Katrina Anderson on October 31, 2008 - 8:00am
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Abortion providers have been threatened, attacked, and even murdered by anti-choice extremists. If the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights recognizes them as women's rights defenders, would providers be better protected?

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Cuts to Family Planning Won't Help Jane the Plumber

Anna Clark on October 21, 2008 - 7:00am
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The presidential candidates have been challenged with the same question again and again: In our unprecedented economic crisis, what programs or services will you cut? If they cut family planning services, other reproductive health costs are sure to spiral leaving "Jane the plumber" without the critical health services she needs.

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Three Pillars of Maternal Health

Judith F. Helzner on October 15, 2008 - 7:00am
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Critical maternal health interventions can be funded without overhauling health systems. What's missing is the political will.

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Raising Our Voices for the Health Care We Need

Eesha Pandit on October 13, 2008 - 7:00am
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Post your own story here! As important for health care advocacy as policy analysis are the stories of real women and their families. Raising Women's Voices and RH Reality Check offer you this space to tell us about your experiences of health care.

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Provider Conscience or God Complex?

Jesse Taylor on August 28, 2008 - 7:00am
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The new HHS provider conscience regulations aren't a problem simply for women of childbearing age. Your body is now the tableau of conscience for whatever doctor or pharmacist you draw.

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Proposed HHS Regulation Could Still Block Access to Contraception, Other Health Services

Jessica Arons on August 22, 2008 - 9:52am
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HHS has released its proposed regulation to “help protect health care providers from [religious] discrimination.” The good news is it no longer attempts to re-define abortion to include birth control. But the regulation no longer defines pregnancy or abortion at all.

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