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my review of Siddarth Kara's book Sex Trafficking

Reader diary posted by Melissa Ditmore

September 10, 2009 - 2:35pm

I reviewed Siddarth Kara's book. He is strong on structural issues but his book turns to salacious material and hero fantasies.

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Research for Sex Work 11 is online

Reader diary posted by Melissa Ditmore

July 6, 2009 - 12:11pm

Research for Sex Work 11 is online. It's the only journal of its kind, with contributions from sex workers, health workers and NGO staff. Articles from India, Mali, Spain, the UK and the US, illustrated with beautiful photographs by Mathilde Bouvard, discuss pleasure and sex work, the failures of raids to help trafficked persons, violence against sex workers and more.

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What defines 'adult content' and what exactly do you mean by explicit?

Reader diary posted by Melissa Ditmore

June 10, 2009 - 9:18am

Researchers investigating online access to information about sexuality find out that the service they use to communicate has a policy prohibiting adult content. Will it affect them beyond being part of the study?

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1 Harkin: Stupak Amendment A Slippery Slope

By Lynda Waddington on Nov 10, 2009 - 2:33pm | comments

Stupak-Pitts is a slippery slope: For example, every health insurance company in America could now lose some of its tax benefits. And you could just say that anybody that got a federal loan for housing could not get an abortion.

Midwestern Health Advocates Speak Out on Stupak-Pitts

By Robin Marty on Nov 10, 2009 - 2:18pm | comments

Pro-choice advocates abided by an agreement not to seek changes to the Hyde Amendment in health reform. Anti-choice factions broke their end of the bargain.

The "Real Life" Effects of Stupak-Pitts: An Analysis by Legal Experts at Planned Parenthood

By Jodi Jacobson on Nov 10, 2009 - 8:41am | comments (1)

What are the real-life effects of the Stupak-Pitts amendment to the House health care bill? An analysis by experts on health law, and reproductive and sexual health issues, shows just how far it goes.

2 The Reaction To Stupak: What's Really Pissing Me Off

By Meteor Blades on Nov 10, 2009 - 6:00am | comments (2)

"Irrational." "Hypersensitive." "Hysterical." The tone of comments on Daily Kos around the abomination known as the Stupak-Pitts Amendment is: "Calm down, little lady. Get real. Be adults. Doncha know how politics really works?"

Religious Tyranny Shames Religion

By Kathleen Reeves on Nov 10, 2009 - 6:00am | comments (7)

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has debased itself by turning into a lobbying group of the most aggressive and inappropriate sort.

(VIDEO) With Friends Like This... McCaskill Says Stupak Amendment Not That Bad

By Jodi Jacobson on Nov 9, 2009 - 4:59pm | comments (3)

Is a Senator who says she's pro-choice short-circuiting efforts to beat the Stupak Amendment in the Senate by conceding the point less than 48 hours after the disastrous vote in the House on this amendment? Is she signaling for the White House?

3 Why The Stupak Amendment Is A Monumental Setback

By Jessica Arons on Nov 9, 2009 - 10:11am | comments (3)

The Stupak Amendment potentially goes farther than any other federal law to restrict women’s access to abortion. The claim that it only bars federal funding for abortions is simply false.

Will the Stupak Amendment Affect Insurance Coverage for Miscarriages? I Think So

By Robin Marty on Nov 9, 2009 - 11:04am | comments (25)

By banning private insurers in the public exchange from covering "abortion services," the Stupak Amendment will affect women with incomplete miscarriages. Like the one I faced last month.

The Stupak Amendment: An Assault On Women

By Charlotte Taft on Nov 9, 2009 - 6:00am | comments (3)

The Stupak-Pitts amendment would actually result the loss of abortion coverage many women already have because it prohibits the new private insurance market as well as any possible public option from providing such coverage.

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

By Jon O'Brien on Nov 8, 2009 - 9:58am | comments (26)

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.

The Answer to Stupak? Overturn Hyde Now

By Frances Kissling on Nov 8, 2009 - 12:08am | comments (11)

Our biggest defeat since 1973 was enactment of the Hyde Amendment and the lack of an uncompromising commitment to overturning it. If nothing else, we must now make overturning Hyde the single objective of our movement.

Do Catholic Bishops Run the United States Government?

By Jodi Jacobson on Nov 7, 2009 - 10:11pm | comments (57)

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops apparently now runs the US government, aided by "faith-based advocacy groups," the House Democratic Leadership, the White House and members of the Senate. If you didn't know before, you know now.

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Reproductive Health Professionals Alarmed by House Version of Health Care Reform, Call on Congress to Remove It

Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor
Nov 10 2009 - 10:48am | comments

Today, the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals called on Congress to remove the Stupak Amendment from the rinal version of the House health reform bill.
(AUDIO) Laurie Rubiner: Stupak Amendment a Hobson's Choice

Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check
Nov 10 2009 - 10:29am | comments

Laurie Rubiner, Vice President of Public Policy at Planned Parenthood, spoke with WNYC's Brian Lehrer about the Stupak-Pitts amendment on Monday morning.
Michigan State Lawmakers Question Terrorism Charges for HIV-positive Man

Todd Heywood, New Journalist Fellow
Nov 10 2009 - 9:08am | comments

An HIV-positive Macomb County man is facing charges created under Michigan’s 2004 terrorism laws for biting another man in a neighborhood scuffle. That, HIV advocates, state lawmakers and legal experts say is “cowardly” and “nonsense” and increases ignorance and stigma surrounding the virus.

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