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The Doula Movement: Making the Radical a Reality by Trusting Pregnant Women

By Mary Mahoney, Pro-Choice Public Education Project

January 27, 2010 - 8:00am

The birth doula movement has certainly grown over the past few years, and innovative and radical projects have expanded care for pregnant people who might otherwise not receive it, such as young mothers and women in prison. During this time, The Doula Project has been building on a new model of doula care: one that supports pregnant people having abortions and choosing adoption.

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Memo to Dems: You're Not My Heroes Anymore

By Rebecca Sive

January 19, 2010 - 8:00am

The Democrats want Martha Coakley elected in Massachusetts today to get the 60th vote for a health care bill that presently renders American women unequal to the men around them. I can no longer support this.

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The Nelson "Compromise:" What It Will Cost Us

By Jodi Jacobson, Editor, RH Reality Check

December 20, 2009 - 3:50pm

By catering to Nelson, the Bishops, and fundamentalists, the Senate aided the anti-choice forces in achieving one of their primary goals: further stigmatizing reproductive and sexual health care, and making it harder for women to get.

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The "Real Life" Effects of Stupak-Pitts: An Analysis by Legal Experts at Planned Parenthood

By Jodi Jacobson, Editor, RH Reality Check

November 10, 2009 - 9:41am

What are the real-life effects of the Stupak-Pitts amendment to the House health care bill? An analysis by experts on health law, and reproductive and sexual health issues, shows just how far it goes.

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Close Vote on Stupak: Updated List of Members to Call NOW!

By Jodi Jacobson, Editor, RH Reality Check

November 7, 2009 - 5:38pm

A close vote on the Stupak amendment; women's groups calling for immediate and urgent calls to these representatives.

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Stupak Will Vote for Reform Even With Abortion Coverage

By Todd Heywood, New Journalist Fellow

October 29, 2009 - 7:00am

Congressman Bart Stupak says that while he is leading the charge to eliminate abortion care from both private and public insurance policies, he will support health care reform legislation even if he loses.

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To Congress on Health Reform: Improve It and Move It!

By Judy Waxman, National Women's Law Center

September 25, 2009 - 7:00am

The America's Healthy Futures Act takes important steps to fix a broken system, but still fails miserably when it comes to making coverage affordable for those who need it most. We've waited long enough. The Senate needs to improve it and move it!

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Increasing Access to Abortion Through Advanced Practice Clinicians: An Advocacy Agenda

By Tracy Weitz

September 10, 2009 - 8:00am

It is time to acknowledge that PAs, NPs and CNMs [collectively known as advanced practice clinicians (APCs)] are capable and qualified to provide abortion care services, but that current efforts to provide this care are thwarted by both the politics of health care and the politics of abortion.

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Selecting the Same Sex

By Merle Hoffman, On The Issues Magazine

August 10, 2009 - 7:00am

While sex selective abortion allows women to make what is, in a sense, the ultimate in supposedly informed consumerism, it also can work to create a world where being female is viewed as the primary and most terminal of birth defects.

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The Bigger Picture: The Politics of Health Reform, Medicaid, and Access to Abortion

By Stephanie Poggi, National Network of Abortion Funds

August 10, 2009 - 7:00am

Health reform was supposed expand care, not exacerbate existing inequalities. Will Obama and the majority Democratic Congress preside over the biggest cutback in reproductive health care for poor women and women of color in decades?

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News & Commentary

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

By Megan Carpentier on March 18, 2010 - 7:00am | 0 comments

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.

Risky Business: Pregnant in America

By Amie Newman on March 18, 2010 - 7:00am | 4 comments

Pregnant women in the U.S. have a greater risk of dying from pregnancy or childbirth related complications than women in 40 other countries around the world. It's past time to fix this.

Youth Lead Advocacy For Sexual and Reproductive Health

By Maria de Bruyn on March 17, 2010 - 9:19pm | 0 comments

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.

2 In Absurd Move, Canada Drops Family Planning from Maternal Health Plan

By Jodi Jacobson on March 17, 2010 - 2:52pm | 3 comments

The Canadian government is excluding family planning from its initiative to save the lives and improve the health of mothers in poor countries. One small problem: You can't address maternal mortality without family planning.

"Slow Death by Rubber Duck:" What We Don't See Can Hurt Us

By Miranda Spencer on March 17, 2010 - 7:00am | 4 comments

Want to know about the effects on human health of environmental toxins? A new book provides the perfect primer.

"We're Not Dolls! Don't Play With Women's Lives"

By Tatiana Mckinney on March 17, 2010 - 7:00am | 0 comments

A demonstration on the steps of Brooklyn's Borough Hall on March 10 raised awareness of the effects of HIV and AIDS on women and girls.

3 Midwives Barred From California Hospital

By Amie Newman on March 16, 2010 - 7:07pm | 5 comments

Midwives in California are fighting for their right to be reinstated at a hospital where administrators have so far provided no proof for their abrupt dismissal, saying only it was for "patient safety."

Is Hormone Replacement Therapy Worth the Risks?

By Pamela Merritt on March 16, 2010 - 7:00am | 0 comments

News that there may be a link between hormone replacement therapy and lung cancer has renewed questions about the use of hormones to treat the symptoms of menopause.

Adulthood and the Right to Make Our Own Choices

By Anat Shenker-Osorio on March 16, 2010 - 7:00am | 6 comments

What does it mean when a group is systematically denied the right to marry? Or when another group is denied the right to determine what happens to their bodies? At some level, even if only unconsciously, it means we think they aren’t adults.

4 The Ethical, Spiritual, and Moral Foundation of the Abortion-Provider Community

By TrustingWomen on March 16, 2010 - 7:00am | 99 comments

Those who provide access to abortions have ethical, spiritual, and religious wisdom that this world needs, and this community needs to claim and celebrate its power, goodness, morality, and justice.

Analysis of Fetal Homicide Bills Suggests Ulterior Motives

By Wendy Norris on March 15, 2010 - 7:00am | 5 comments

A slew of state bills to establish precedents for "fetal homicide" have at least one thing in common—little mention of the women actually involved in the incidents.

The Vanishing Anti-Choice Democrat: Rethinking the Party's Strategy

By Amanda Marcotte on March 15, 2010 - 7:00am | 14 comments

The share of people who are "liberal" but also anti-choice grows tinier by the day. Investments by the Democratic Party to recruit that vanishing population would be far better spent elsewhere.

5 Have You Thanked an Abortion Provider Today?

By Robin Marty on March 15, 2010 - 7:00am | 50 comments

March 10th was "National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers," a day to remember the people who make the right to choose "real." But we need to be mindful every day of what providers do and what they sacrifice.

West Virginians For Life Skirts Lobbying Laws, But Courts Publicity

By Megan Carpentier on March 12, 2010 - 9:00am | 2 comments

Lobbyists for West Virginians for Life have failed to register in the state as required by a law intended to foster transparency. Is it ok to violate "man's laws" in the interest of "God's work?"

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

By Heather Corinna on March 12, 2010 - 9:00am | 0 comments

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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