Barack Obama
VIDEO: Tom Daschle Withdraws Nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services
by Amie Newman
February 3, 2009 - 2:18pm (Print)
Daschle has given up his chance at Secretary of HHS and will not be the "architect of America's health care reform" after all.
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Counting Out Women
January 29, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)
Misogyny lives on in the US media – and it's time old goats like Hardball host Chris Matthews were put out to pasture.
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Stimulus Finalized Without Medicaid Family Planning Expansion
January 27, 2009 - 2:06pm (Print)
The economic stimulus package has been finalized, and it does not include the straightforward provision allowing states to extend Medicaid coverage for family planning services to low-income residents without first obtaining a time-consuming waiver from the federal government.
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Et tu, Barack?
by Cristina Page, Moderator, OnCommonGround
January 27, 2009 - 1:47pm (Print)
Ideology-plagued Republicans, and their media enablers, couldn't seem to figure out why unemployed Americans without health insurance would possibly want, or need, to prevent an unwanted pregnancy.
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The Pro-Voice Solution
by Aspen Baker, Exhale
January 27, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)
Living with a pro-voice solution is the only option for a lasting peace to the abortion war.
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Awkward Reunions at Denver March for Life
by Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check
January 27, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)
Following the overwhelming defeat of Colorado's personhood initiative, Denver's annual March for Life underscored the sense of how lost the local anti-abortion movement seems.
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Caving On Contraception? Obama and House Democrats Say Maybe So
January 26, 2009 - 8:40pm (Print)
Why would the Obama administration request the removal of a provision to ensure that state Medicaid programs be allowed to provide contraception to low-income families? And why would House leaders cave to this request?
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Dear President Obama, From a Pro-Sex Ed Father
by Gilbert Herdt, National Sexuality Resource Center
January 26, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)
It is not right that only wealthy people's children who attend private schools get quality sexual literacy. This form of extended segregation creates a vacuum and fills it up with shame, fear and silence.
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Physicians, Advocates, Providers Applaud Global Gag Rule Repeal!
January 23, 2009 - 5:09pm (Print)
Thank you, President Obama. The Global Gag Rule is no more! Advocates, physicians, legislators and women around the world are rejoicing. Onward to the next challenge...
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Presidential Reviews And Predictions
by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
January 23, 2009 - 4:12pm (Print)
Follow Amanda Marcotte on Twitter, @amandamarcotte
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