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Roundup: The Billboard People

By Robin Marty, RH Reality Check

February 16, 2010 - 9:30am

More reaction to the Georgia billboards, and you'll never feel lonely again after the mini roundup.

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Refusing to Provide Contraception to Women: Whose 'Right' Is it Anyway?

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

December 11, 2009 - 3:02pm

The American College of Nurse-Midwives blog, Midwife Connection, poses the question, "Should a pharmacist be able to refuse to fill a prescription?" in response to "pharmacy refusal" policies currently making their way through Washington state courts.

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CDC Releases Its Annual 'Abortion Surveillance' Report

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

November 25, 2009 - 4:14pm

The CDC releases its annual "Abortion Surveillance" report on abortion in the United States, for 2006. The report says the surveillance provides critical information needed to evaluate programs aimed at preventing unintended pregnancy.

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Generic EC: Sleeper Story of the Summer

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

September 23, 2009 - 3:24pm

However contentious the EC debate remains, emergency contraception itself must not be ignored.

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A Local Fight For Contraceptives in Schools

By Joe Veix, RH Reality Check

September 18, 2009 - 1:44pm

A school in Massachusetts is battling parental opposition
to their contraception policy.

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LifeSiteNews Lies to Women About Plan B and Abortion

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

August 5, 2009 - 10:01am

This article, one of the worst examples of LifeSiteNews's consistent mischaracterization of EC, is truly negligent.

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Kenya Gets Plan B

By Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

July 15, 2009 - 2:15pm

While here it has, generally, become a widely accepted emergency option, the BBC
reported today that in Kenya, the emergency pill—or e-pill, as it’s
called there—has caught on as many women’s favorite method of birth
control, “some even buying the pills in advance.”

Elisabeth Garber-Paul's blog | 3 comments | Read more |

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Washington Court Mandate: Pharmacies Must Stock Plan B

By Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

July 10, 2009 - 12:30pm

Last Wednesday, a 9th circuit district appeals court in Washington
state ruled that, despite a pharmacist’s personal moral or religious
believes, he or she is required by law to stock and sell emergency
contraception.

Elisabeth Garber-Paul's blog | 1 comment | Read more |

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Sexual Health Ignorance Comes From Above

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

June 30, 2009 - 11:12am

How long is sex education going to be marginalized, hindered, or just ignored?

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The Pill Kills Rational Reactions

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

June 21, 2009 - 10:47pm

Anti-choicers protest the pill, complaints about Sonia Sotomayor reaching new levels of incoherence, and Plan B is easier for 17-year-olds to get, but it's not enough.

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News & Commentary

1 Facing the Real Threats: AIDS A Leading Cause of Death Among African-American Women

By Naina Khanna on March 10, 2010 - 7:00am | 0 comments

Although HIV is considered a chronic manageable condition in the U.S., AIDS-related illnesses continue to be the leading cause of death among African-American women aged 25 to 34 years old.

On Women & Girls HIV Awareness Day, Awareness Of, Action On Domestic Epidemic Still Lacking

By Brook Kelly on March 10, 2010 - 7:00am | 0 comments

I am deeply struck by the continued blindness to the deeper structural challenges faced by women affected and infected with HIV in the United States, a blindness that makes progress virtually impossible.

The Billboard Circus and the Abortion Wars

By Carole Joffe on March 10, 2010 - 7:00am | 0 comments

The abortion wars rage relentlessly on, in the United States and elsewhere, and the only lesson to be drawn from recent federal and state legislative action is that the wars show no signs of abating.

2 Forty 4 Forty: Making Lemonade for Choice

By Lon Newman on March 9, 2010 - 7:30pm | 0 comments

Picketers holding anti-abortion signs in front of our clinic seek to confuse the public about our services. We don't provide abortions. But the picketers underscore the true meaning of "anti-choice."

Wreckonciliation

By Rebecca Sive on March 9, 2010 - 7:00am | 3 comments

To coin a cliche on International Women's Day, I have to ask: Where's the beef? American women are being told that our most fundamental right--to control our reproductive destiny--should be of no consequence in health reform.

(SLIDE SHOW) Focus on the Family Emerges From Dobson's Shadow

By Wendy Norris on March 9, 2010 - 7:00am | 0 comments

James Dobson has officially stepped down as chair of Focus on the Family. However, Dobson won't be out of the public eye nor will the global evangelical media empire's chief, Jim Daly.

3 Stoking Fire: Anti-Choice Leader Arrested for Trespassing and Stalking

By Eleanor Bader on March 9, 2010 - 7:00am | 5 comments

Flip Benham, head of Operation Save America, was arrested twice in February, once by a church who agrees with his anti-choice method but not his tactics.

Want Rights? Just Take Them

By Gloria Feldt on March 8, 2010 - 6:00am | 2 comments

Women need to start assuming equality at all levels as our perfect right, as boys and men are socialized to do from birth. And then we need to act.

Pregnancy-Related Death and Illness Among Adolescents & Young Women: A Preventable Tragedy

By Imane Khachani on March 8, 2010 - 7:00am | 0 comments

We urgently need to make adolescent girls and young women a priority in research, legal reforms, and funding. Only by doing so can our societies overcome the "indecent inequality" of maternal death.

4 Seeking Justice: Accountability for Sexual Violence

By Shonali Shome on March 8, 2010 - 7:00am | 0 comments

Today, as we honor women’s economic, political, and social advancements, the women of Zimbabwe are recovering from a brutal campaign of rape. We must hold the perpetrators accountable.

Utah Continues Reckless Efforts to Lock Up Pregnant Women

By Lynn Paltrow on March 7, 2010 - 9:30am | 0 comments

Comforted by the fact that the Utah legislature "revised" the bill on miscarriages? Don't be. Its main purpose is not to advance a "culture of life," but to advance laws that permit imprisonment of pregnant women.

What's the Typical Use-Effectiveness Rate of Abstinence?

By Heather Corinna on March 5, 2010 - 7:00am | 8 comments

That question probably either sounds like a really important one or a really stupid one, depending on your view. But I want the answer regardless, and am seriously tired of waiting for it. So I went ahead and asked it myself.

5 A Feminist Guide to the 2010 Oscars

By Sarah Seltzer on March 5, 2010 - 7:00am | 0 comments

The Academy Awards are often joked about as "our" [read: women's] Superbowl. I talked with Melissa Silverstein, editor of Women and Hollywood and guru for feminist film-buffs, about what feminists should be on the lookout for this Sunday.

Utah Bill Criminalizing Miscarriage To Be Resubmitted

By Rachel Larris on March 5, 2010 - 5:11pm | 2 comments

At the request of Utah's governor, a bill that would criminalize miscarriages is to be resubmitted to remove the standard for “recklessness.” The new version, however, would still set a dangerous precedent.

The Church and Gays: Can't Decide Whether to ""Love" 'Em" or Leave 'Em?"

By Jodi Jacobson on March 5, 2010 - 12:00pm | 9 comments

Could it be divine intervention? Just days after Catholic Charities cut off spousal benefits for DC employees to protect itself from the scourge of gay marriage, the Vatican is caught in a gay sex scandal.

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