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Planned Parenthood Has A Widget For You

By Rachel Larris, RH Reality Check

February 25, 2010 - 9:37am

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Interested in figuring out the right birth control method for you? Wondering if you should be tested for an STI? Need to know where the closest Planned Parenthood clinic is located? Planned Parenthood now has three widgets that can be added to a blog or webpage.


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Worried About Women of Color? Thanks, But No Thanks, Anti-Choicers. We've Got It Covered.

By Miriam Pérez, radicaldoula.com, feministing.com

February 24, 2010 - 8:00am

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The anti-choice movement uses false concern about women of color in a classic effort to divide-and-conquer. Reproductive justice advocates say thanks but no thanks...we've got it covered.


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Black Abortion: Breaking the Silence

By Maame-Mensima Horne

February 22, 2010 - 8:00am

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Stigma prevents many African American women from discussing sex and pregnancy. But we need to speak out. Our foremothers fought anti-choicers, and we must as well or end up burying women who, in desperation, turn to back- alley abortions.


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Stop Perpetuating Myths About Black Women and Abortion

By Kelley Robinson, Planned Parenthood Heartland

February 18, 2010 - 8:00am

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A reproductive justice advocate responds to an op-ed in the Des Moines Register repeating anti-choice myths regarding African-American women and their reproductive choices.


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Women of Color and the Anti-Choice Focus on Eugenics

By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

February 12, 2010 - 8:00am

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Women of color are not children unable to make decisions and our children are not "on the brink of extinction" through an organized genocidal plot.


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What Do You Think About Casual Sex?

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

March 18, 2010 - 1:25pm

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RH Reality Check's beloved expert on sex and young people needs your help! Heather Corinna is on the prowl for some great information for a study on multi-generational attitudes and experiences about casual sex. Can you help?


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Where the Wild Things Weren't: Daily Beast's Women's Summit Avoids Controversial Realities

By Megan Carpentier, RH Reality Check

March 18, 2010 - 7:00am

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The Daily Beast's first Women in the World Summit played stuck to lowest-common denominator issues, and avoided the "scary" and "controversial" (read: political) realities of women's lives.


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Youth Lead Advocacy For Sexual and Reproductive Health

By Maria de Bruyn, Ipas

March 17, 2010 - 9:19pm

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Youth advocates at the 54th Commission on the Status of Women challenged a multi-generational, multinational audience to examine their own thinking about sexual and reproductive health and rights.


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Choice Words from Planned Parenthood Los Angeles

Reader diary posted by PPLABlog

March 15, 2010 - 4:21pm

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Promote awareness about reproductive health services with Planned Parenthood!


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Get Real! He Said He'd Wait, But He Won't Stop Asking

By Heather Corinna, Scarleteen.com

March 12, 2010 - 9:00am

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What do you call it when someone asks the same question over and over again hoping to get a different answer? Pressure.


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