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Roundup: Does Scott Brown Really Support Planned Parenthood?
by Beth Saunders, RH Reality Check
March 25, 2011 - 9:48am (Print)
Planned Parenthood: Former Massachusetts governor supports it, what is Senator Scott Brown true stance on defunding it, and Rep. Alan West is offended that it's in so many black communities. Also - radiation risks to pregnant women in Japan, and fertility treatments for HIV-positive men who want children.
Morning Roundup: Pharmacist Preferred to Have Woman Bleed Out
by Beth Saunders, RH Reality Check
January 13, 2011 - 10:55am (Print)
British advocates want to change medical abortion requirements, a pharmacist in Idaho refused to fill a prescription for a woman she believed had an abortion, Vanderbilt changes application letter, and Japanese teens are uninterested in sex.
Progress on Health at G8 Doesn't Make the Grade
by Jill Sheffield, Family Care International
July 14, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)
Women and War: Japanese Women Still Waiting for Justice
by Eesha Pandit, Feministing
March 19, 2007 - 7:55am (Print)
Last week, as we heard about American women in war, another story about women and war surfaced. An article in the NY Times reported that the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is refusing to acknowledge that Japanese (and other) women were forced into sex-slavery by the military during World War II.
This weekend, after a great stirring of emotions and controversy, the government of Japan reiterated its stance. The women who lived through it, however, are refusing to accept this distortion of history.
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