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Let's Try This One More Time: Bill to Eliminate Ab-Only Funding Introduced (Again)

by Martha Kempner, RH Reality Check

March 16, 2011 - 8:31am (Print)

Legislation introduced this week would kill Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage funding originally allowed to expire in 2009 only to be resurrected in health reform legislation.

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"Protect Life Act" Does Not Protect Women's Lives

by Vicki Saporta, National Abortion Federation

February 11, 2011 - 3:12pm (Print)

Republican supporters of this bill and their witnesses repeatedly asserted in the hearing that abortion is never necessary to save a woman’s life. That is simply not true.

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Court Temporarily Lifts Stem Cell Funding Ban

by Amie Newman

September 9, 2010 - 1:04pm (Print)

A federal appeals court temporarily lifted the ban on funding for stem cell research today.

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MT Medicaid Fraud Probe Snares "Egg-as-Person" Leader

by Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check

December 3, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

The primary care physician leading the Montana "personhood" campaign is under multiple investigations for Medicaid fraud: She allegedly insisted that patients pray with her.

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Initial Reports Indicate No Stupak Amendment in Reid's Senate Bill

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

November 18, 2009 - 8:49pm (Print)

Early indications are that the Senate health reform bill introduced by Majority Leader Harry Reid preserves the "status quo" and does not include a version of the Stupak amendment.

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USCCB Opposition to Funding Plan Is "Height of Hypocrisy"

by Nancy Keenan, NARAL Pro-Choice America

November 11, 2009 - 10:21am (Print)

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and its allies distorted the facts by claiming that the proposed system under the House bill would use federal dollars to cover abortions. They’re wrong.

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Who Voted to Take Away Your Basic Rights Tonight? The 64 Dems Who Voted "Yes" on Stupak

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

November 7, 2009 - 11:53pm (Print)

Wanna know which Dems voted to give away your rights by passing the Stupak amendment in the health reform bill? Here's a list of the 64 who voted yes.

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House Will Take "Up or Down" Vote on Stupak Amendment, Threatening Women's Rights

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

November 7, 2009 - 8:45am (Print)

House Democratic leaders will allow an up-or-down vote on an amendment blocking any money in its healthcare overhaul from funding abortions, risking the votes of members who support abortion rights.

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HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion

by Cristina Page, Moderator, OnCommonGround

July 15, 2008 - 2:02pm (Print)

The Department of Health and Human Services Monday released a proposal that allows any federal grant recipient to obstruct a woman's access to contraception. In order to do this, the Department is attempting to redefine many forms of contraception as abortion.

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Update: Your Search for "Abortion" Now Yields Something

by Amie Newman

April 3, 2008 - 10:00am (Print)

Why did the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's medical database black out the word "abortion" from its searchable terms? Does federal funding equal censorship? Update: The Dean of the School issues a statement and restores the word.

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