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Federal Judge Grants Temporary Injunction Against Indiana Law De-funding Planned Parenthood

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

June 24, 2011 - 7:46pm (Print)

In an important victory for women in Indiana and elsewhere, a federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction halting enforcement of an Indiana law barring Planned Parenthood Indiana from participating in the state's Medicaid program.

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In Illinois, Doctors Refusing to Treat Women Who've Had Abortions

by Allie Carter, ACLU of Illinois

August 17, 2010 - 5:40pm (Print)

Every place we visited in Illinois -from Rockford to Carbondale, and from the Quad Cities to Champaign-Urbana – revealed that people in Illinois face numerous obstacles in accessing reproductive health services and information.

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Take Action for International Women's Day

reader diary by Jaime-Alexis Fowler, Pathfinder International

March 3, 2010 - 9:36pm (Print)

What would you do to help women this International Women's Day? Click a button? Watch a video? What if that's all you had to do to improve women's lives?

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Choice Words from Serena at Planned Parenthood Los Angeles!

reader diary by PPLABlog

July 15, 2009 - 7:01pm (Print)

You can become
a key player in the Campaign for a Healthy South LA and help reach thousands of women, men and teens!
Come and join us Saturday, July 18th.

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On Women's Equality Day, Sebelius, Barnes and Tchen Pushed on Reproductive Health Care Coverage

by Emily Douglas

August 26, 2009 - 3:15pm (Print)

On a conference call in honor of Women's Equality Day, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Melody Barnes and Tina Tchen were repeatedly pressed on reproductive health care coverage under health care reform.

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Aborting Health Care Reform

by Dana Goldstein, RH Reality Check

August 17, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

The president and his staff have been reluctant to take on reproductive rights in health reform. But that has not prevented anti-choicers from using the issue to activate their base against reform.

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Catholics Support Health Care; LifeSiteNews Incensed

by Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

August 14, 2009 - 10:17am (Print)

We shouldn’t be surprised when LifeSiteNews takes offense to a nun who claims that social and economic justice, including affordable health care, are part of God’s vision.

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Proposed Hospital Buyout Could Limit Reproductive, End-of-Life Care

by Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check

June 10, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

The contentious transfer of two Colorado-based Exempla hospitals to a Catholic health care network is likely to further shrink comprehensive health care services for Denver-area patients because they violate church doctrine.

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The Pro-Pregnancy Nominee

by Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

March 3, 2009 - 10:33am (Print)

I applaud Sebelius for considering the needs of pregnant women in Kansas.

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Environmental Disasters in the Asia-Pacific: What About Reproductive Health in Emergencies?

by Ramona Vijeyarasa, RH Reality Check, Southeast Asia

December 2, 2008 - 8:00am (Print)

For pregnant women, any environmental disaster severely limits safe delivery options, which in turn exacerbates pre-existing vulnerabilities to maternal death and disability.

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