women's rights

Why Are Science and Evidence Routinely Ignored When it Comes to the Rights and Health of Pregnant Women?

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by Lynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women

and Farah Diaz-Tello, National Advocates for Pregnant Women

January 19, 2012 - 7:17am (Print)

Why is it, we wonder, that when it comes to decisions regarding women and pregnancy, science is so often ignored?

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Must Women Feel Sad About Choosing Abortion? Hell No!

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by Sunsara Taylor

January 2, 2012 - 11:09am (Print)

There is absolutely nothing wrong, or necessarily tragic, unfortunate, or sad about a woman choosing to get an abortion. Nothing. And here's why.

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Why the International Climate Negotiations in Durban Matter for Women

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by Mary Pittman, Public Health Institute

and Kavita Ramdas

December 7, 2011 - 10:12am (Print)

Who bears the brunt of the increasingly steep costs of “global weirding” as the world’s weather goes haywire? Women and their children. And who may be the key to stopping global warming, and to helping communities around the world adapt to the damage that has already been done? Yes, women too.

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Keeping Girls in School: Addressing Early Marriage and Breaking Barriers to Reproductive Health Care

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reader diary by LindaSuttenfield, Pathfinder International

September 28, 2011 - 10:19pm (Print)

Married at 3, divorced at 8? Early marriage should not be an option for any young girl--no matter where she lives.

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Beyond Suffrage: How Far Have Women Come Since?

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by Eve Weinbaum

and Rachel Roth, RH Reality Check

August 26, 2011 - 9:52am (Print)

American women won the right to vote in 1920. But how far have we come since on other issues important to women?

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Paul Ryan's Budget and Another Front in the War on Women

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by Tammy Booth

June 7, 2011 - 7:15am (Print)

The budget proposal put forth by Paul Ryan is a vicious and cruel all-out attack on everyone under the age of 55, but the cuts to Medicare and Medicaid that the Ryan plan propose would be felt in a particularly acute way by women.

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Why I Do This Work: An Abortion Provider Speaks

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by Dr. Curtis Boyd

May 31, 2011 - 6:58am (Print)

Let me tell you why I am not doing this work. It is not because of the bleeding, septic, and sometimes dying women that I, and others, saw in our first years of training.

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Right-wing Focus on the Family's Chilling New Agenda on "Marriage Defense"

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reader diary by Vyckie Garrison, No Longer Qivering

May 25, 2011 - 6:27am (Print)

"Pro-family" group, Focus on the Family is shifting away from opposing same-sex marriage and instead focusing on making it more difficult to obtain a divorce. Does anyone else think this is scary? ...

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Why Should Feminists Stay in the Lone Star State? To Mess With Texas

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by Andrea Grimes

May 24, 2011 - 8:48am (Print)

I’m not the feminist savior of Texas, but if I don’t leave, and if my feminist friends don’t leave, maybe we can bring more people to our side. Maybe if we don't leave, we can change the conversation instead of scoffing and tsking from outside while anti-feminist, anti-woman laws and social practices leave a legacy of lasting, visceral harm on real, live Texans.

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"You Are A Man. Why Are You Interested in Family Planning?"

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by Peter Belden, Hewlett Foundation

May 18, 2011 - 1:59pm (Print)

It happens frequently when I meet someone new.  We each say what work we do, and then he or she says, “You are a man.  Why are you interested in family planning?” 

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