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Women, Power, And A Hot Midterm Election Season

October 17, 2010 - 6:38pm (Print)

Gloria Feldt comes on to talk about women and power. The midterm election season gets ugly. And a healthy baby is born from a 20-year-old embryo---what are the implications?

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Roundup: Key Races Show Republican Gameplan for 2010

by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check

June 11, 2010 - 9:19am (Print)

"Champion for the Unborn." "Struggle for the soul of the nation." Remember when elections used to be about taxes and education?

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Women Are Fickle and Biased. They Don't Deserve to Vote!

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

April 19, 2010 - 3:15pm (Print)

This week's newest off-the-wall right-wing assertion comes to us courtesy of Thomas Mitchell, editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Mr. Mitchell, you see, thinks women are too dumb and too biased to vote. His helpful suggestion? Repeal the 19th amendment. That's right. The one that gave us gals the right to vote.

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GOP Misinformation Machine Goes into High Gear on Senate Langage on Abortion

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

November 19, 2009 - 2:15pm (Print)

GOP smear and misinformation campaign goes into high-gear on abortion in Senate bill. Here are some of the actual facts.

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Anti-Choice Extremists Hold Contest for Burning Congressional Leaders in Effigy

by John Tomasic, New Journalist Fellow

October 29, 2009 - 6:00am (Print)

"We're not violent" anti-choice extremists are holding a contest that includes asking supporters to burn Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in effigy.

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HuffPo: 35 Senate Republicans Voted Against Hate Crimes Legislation

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

October 22, 2009 - 5:24pm (Print)

Huffington Post reports that earlier today 35 Senate Republicans voted against passage of the defense authorization bill because it also contained hate crimes legislation. The defense bill including the hate crimes legislation, was sent on for final vote, and passed today.

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DeMint Breaks Senate Agreement on PEPFAR Debate

by Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

July 14, 2008 - 9:24pm (Print)

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) took advantage of leverage far-right negotiators acquired as PEPFAR negotiations have been mishandled, and violated Senate protocol to push his ideological misinformation about abortion.

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Scientists Tell Pelosi: No More Ab-only Funding

by John Santelli MD MPH, Columbia University

November 28, 2007 - 9:09am (Print)

Ten leading scientists send an open letter to Congress urging them to discontinue funding for failed abstinence-only programs and offering to advise Congress on an alternative.

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