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News & CommentaryGet Real! How Can I Help My Trans Partner with a Medical Transition?By Heather Corinna, Scarleteen.com November 26, 2009 - 7:00am 
The best way to be an ally and a support to anyone often starts with questions like "How can I support you?" or "What do you want and need from me in this?" Then you listen to the answers and respond accordingly.
Published under: Sexuality Education | Women’s Rights | transgender | LGBT rights | LGBT health care | reassignment surgery
A Feminist's Guide To Curing Yourself of Twilight-ManiaBy Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check November 26, 2009 - 7:00am 
Too attached to Edward Cullen for your feminist sensibilities? Just in time for Thanksgiving, here's an unorthodox guide to kicking the Twilight habit.
Published under: Women’s Rights | twilight | New Moon | Twilight Saga | Edward Cullen | Sookie Stackhouse | Anita Blake | Anne rice
A Thanksgiving Note to Our CommunitiesBy Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor November 25, 2009 - 5:21pm 
As Thanksgiving Day quickly approaches, we want to take a moment to reflect on how grateful we are for the people who help make RH Reality Check what it is today.
Published under: Thanksgiving
Beyond Stupak: Shocking Fertility Control Provisions in Health Care Reform LegislationNovember 25, 2009 - 7:00am 
The Stupak furor has obscured the shocking fertility and family control provisions in current health care legislation. The House bill actually authorizes a plan to monitor the childbearing decisions and family lives of low-income women.
Published under: Contraception | STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention | Sexuality Education | Maternal Health | Access to Abortion | Women’s Rights
Bridging the Language Gap on Rights, Literally and FigurativelyBy Patrick Malone, SIECUS November 25, 2009 - 7:00am 
Rights advocates can forget that there is an entire world of potential allies out there we may be missing because we are not effectively communicating with them.
Published under: Contraception | STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention | Sexuality Education | Maternal Health | Access to Abortion | Women’s Rights | access | Sexual and Reproductive Health | funding | rights | communication | Stupak
Proposed Abortion Law in Peru Meets Heavy OppositionBy Angela Castellanos, RH Reality Check, Latin America November 24, 2009 - 9:42pm 
Revisions in Peru's Penal Code may lead to decriminalizing abortion in cases of rape or severe disability of the fetus. But conservative political and religious forces are, predictably, opposing these changes.
Published under: Contraception | Maternal Health | Access to Abortion | Women’s Rights | abortion | access to abortion | maternal mortality | unsafe abortion | Peru | legalization of abortion | decriminalization of abortion
Pregnant, Jailed and Denied CareBy Amie Newman, Managing Editor November 24, 2009 - 8:00am 
Bethany Cajúne, pregnant and in a substance abuse recovery program, was jailed for 19 days for traffic violations. But officials repeatedly denied her a drug necessary to her recovery, putting her health and the life of her fetus at risk.
Published under: Maternal Health | Women’s Rights | Childbirth | pregnancy | ACLU | drug treatment | addiction | pregnant behind bars
Senate Bill More Closely Preserves Abortion Status QuoBy Jessica Arons, Center for American Progress and Center for American Progress Action Fund November 24, 2009 - 7:00am 
Opponents and supporters of women's choices in childbearing agreed early on, in theory, to maintain the “status quo” with "abortion neutral" health care legislation. The Senate bill achieves this goal; the House bill does not.
Published under: Access to Abortion | Women’s Rights | health care | health care reform | Senate | health insurance reform
Ending the Epidemic of Sexually Transmitted Infections Starts with TalkingBy Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check November 24, 2009 - 7:00am 
An epidemic of sexually transmitted infections in the U.S. disproportionately affects blacks, youth, gays and the poor. Talking openly about sex is the first step in prevention.
Published under: Contraception | STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention | Sexuality Education | Maternal Health | Access to Abortion | Women’s Rights | HIV | sexually transmitted infections | sexual health | STIs | comprehensive sex education | syphillis | gonorrhea
Greater Equality for India's Muslims Can Mean Greater Equality for Muslim WomenBy Aziza Ahmed November 24, 2009 - 7:00am 
Muslim women in India are caught between the strictures of family and personal law and persistent discrimination against them as women from both the Indian government and society writ large.
Published under: Contraception | STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention | Sexuality Education | Maternal Health | Access to Abortion | Women’s Rights | women's rights | India | Muslim rights
Marriage Promotion Trumps Effective Prevention Strategies In Abstinence-Only ProgramsBy Martha Kempner, SIECUS November 23, 2009 - 9:49am 
Abstinence-only-until-marriage program have always been more about marriage than they are about sex. Though they are often billed as replacements for comprehensive sexuality education or as teen pregnancy or STD prevention programs, in truth, they are more focused on promoting marriage than preventing anything.
Published under: Contraception | STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention | Sexuality Education | Maternal Health | Access to Abortion | Women’s Rights | Contraception | sexually transmitted infections | siecus | Abstinence-only education; reproductive rights; sexual rights | couple communication
Anti-choice Groups Denounce Nevada "Egg-As-Person" AmendmentBy Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check November 23, 2009 - 8:00am 
In a strange twist, Nevada anti-choice groups, complaining that the wording of a "personhood" amendment to establish civil rights for fertilized eggs is too vague, are on the same side as Planned Parenthood and ACLU.
Published under: Contraception | STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention | Sexuality Education | Maternal Health | Access to Abortion | Women’s Rights | Contraception | abortion | access to abortion | personhood | egg-as-person | Nevada | fertility treatments
Mr. Stupak: Here’s a Senate Speech You’ll Need To HearBy Rebecca Sive November 23, 2009 - 8:00am 
No one reading this has forgotten that the House passed a healthcare “reform” bill that includes the Stupak Amendment. Here's a speech Congressman Stupak needs to hear.
Published under: Contraception | STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention | Sexuality Education | Maternal Health | Access to Abortion | Women’s Rights | Contraception | abortion | access to abortion | health reform | insurance exchanges | Stupak | Pitts | Hyde
Precious, Stupak, and the Erasure of Women's LivesBy Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check November 20, 2009 - 7:00am
With the Stupak amendment literally and symbolically stripping women of equal status, the movie "Precious" presents, in grim detail, the way race, class and bias render a woman's body simultaneously invisible and subject to abuse.
The Real Victims of Stupak-PittsBy Dr. Suzanne Poppema, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health November 20, 2009 - 7:00am 
In examining rooms, we see women in terrible pain, but their suffering doesn’t count in Stupak/Pitts world. By banishing abortion from the reform bill, the amendment punishes women who need to end unwanted or unhealthy pregnancies.
Published under: Leading Voices | Contraception | STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention | Sexuality Education | Maternal Health | Access to Abortion | Women’s Rights
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