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• Sarah Brown: midwives crucial to stopping women dying in childbirth

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  Sarah Brown, the Prime Ministers wife, has called for more to be done to stop women dying in childbirth around the world.
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• House of LeT suspect Rana’s kin raided

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Ghaziabad, Nov 26 (IANS) Intelligence agencies raided the house of a relative of suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative Tahawwur Hussain Rana in Hapur in Uttar Pradesh late Wednesday night.According to sources here Thursday, intelligence officials raided the house of the maternal aunt of Rana’s wife in Awas Vikas ...
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• UF part of nationwide trials to test H1N1 vaccine in women, children, youth with HIV

  
  insider - UF College of Medicine News Resource - University of Florida — Authority: 419
  The University of Florida Center for HIV/AIDS Research is taking part in national clinical trials of the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine among children, youth and pregnant women who are infected with HIV. The trials’ aim is to determine how well higher-than-usual doses of the vaccine trigger a protective immune ...
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• Baltimore City Council Passes Crisis Pregnancy Center Accountability Bill

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 741
  The Baltimore Sun reports that "crisis pregnancy centers in Baltimore must display signs stating they do not provideabortions or birth-control referrals under a measure approved by theCity Council Monday night and thought to be the first of its kind inthe nation." So-called crisis pregnancy centers regularly ...
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• Weekly Pulse: Crunch Time in the Senate

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 741
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is determined to get a health care bill passed in the Senate by Christmas. This is a momentous time, as John Nichols writes in The Nation : …Harry Reid has a health-care reform bill, and it is advancing. Indeed, with Saturday night’s 60-39 Senate vote to open a historic ...
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• Bridging the Language Gap on Rights, Literally and Figuratively

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 741
  My first summer as a camp counselor, I got what I considereda bit of an unfortunate assignment.   I was   an assistant for agroup of the camps very youngest kids—three year olds.   I had hoped to be with slightly olderkids if for no other reason than they are far easier to understand.   You see the language ...
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• Beyond Stupak: Shocking Fertility Control Provisions in Health Care Reform Legislation

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 741
  This article was originally published on StopFamilyViolence.org and is reprinted here with permission of the authors.  Gwendolyn Mink is co-author with Dorothy Roberts. While the latest clash over health care reform has focused onabortion funding, no attention has been paid to shocking fertilitycontrol and ...
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• Maternal Grandparents…. Wordless Wednesday #15

  
  Devilish Southern Belle — Authority: 125
  Mawmaw and Pop were a good-lookin’ couple, weren’t they? I’m not sure when the photo in this photo was taken, but it was most likely sometime in the early 40s. And my grandfather made that heart-shaped grapevine wreath himself. For more Wordless Wednesday, go here . Share and Enjoy: ...
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• Proposed Abortion Law in Peru Meets Heavy Opposition

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 741
  Various Latin American countries are creating barriers to access to safe abortion except in exceptional circumstances, while also reforming their constitutions in order to avoid any possibility of liberalizing the procedure.   But in Peru a multidisciplinary committee in charge of revising the Penal Code has ...
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• When The Man Left Zambia, The Natives Started Buggering Each Other To Death

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 145
  When the British ran the country that became Zambia , the natives had an average life expectancy of around 65 years. Since they’ve taken charge of their own affairs, their standard of living has halved along with their life expectancy. As Wikipedia says : "Per capita annual incomes are currently at about ...
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• Advocacy Groups Form Coalition to Stop Stupak and Pass Health Reform Legislation

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 741
  A broad group of advocacy organizations from the progressive and women’s health communities has joined together to form the Coalition to Pass Health Care Reform and Stop Stupak!   The coalition’s goal is to ensure that health care reform is passed and does not restrict women’s ability to purchase private ...
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• UNICEF reports from Zambia

  
  ONE — Authority: 489
  UNICEF USA’s Fieldnotes Blog has a great report from a rural health clinic in Zambia– specifically post-natal and prevention of mother-to-child treatment (PMTCT) care.The whole piece is worth a read. Excerpts below:Rolina is HIV positive and is enrolled in the clinic’s PMTCT program. She and her husband ...
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• Adolescent Girls Bear Highest Burden of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, According to CDC

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 741
  An annual report on sexually transmitted diseases released today by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that in 2008 adolescent girls 15–19 years of age had the largest recorded number ofchlamydia and gonorrhea cases (409,531) when compared to any other agegroup. Women ages 20-24 were the next most ...
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• Ending the Epidemic of Sexually Transmitted Infections Starts with Talking

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 741
  The ambitious American combination of prudery and criminallyneglectful government attention to health care has resulted in another victoryfor the forces of darkness: anew record in STD transmissions for 2008.   WillWong analyzed the data for RH Reality Check .   As you can imagine, this public health disaster ...
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• Greater Equality for Indias Muslims Can Mean Greater Equality for Muslim Women

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 741
  Last month Muslim women from around Indiamet at the thirdannual convention at the BharatiyaMuslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) – the Indian Muslim Women’s Movement.   Led by their founders, Zakia Soman, Naish Hasan , and Noorjahan Niaz --the 1500 women met to bring their issues to the fore of discussion and ...
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• Former Kansas Atty General Chief of Staff Under Investigation for Ethics Violations in Tiller Case

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 741
  The Wichita Eagle reports today that Eric Rucker, former top assistant to Kansas State Attorney General Phil Kline, faces a formalethics complaint that he made misleading comments before the KansasSupreme Court in attempts to prosecute Dr. George Tiller for violations of Kansas law for which Tiller was repeatedly ...
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• In 180 Degree Shift, Roeders Attorney Protests Efforts by Prosecutors to Ban "Necessity Defense."

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 741
  After vociferously denying a "necessity defense" could be mounted in the case of Scott Roeder, the man accused of shooting Kansas doctor GeorgeTiller in May, the public defender representing Roeder is fighting prosecutors efforts to ban the so-called necessitydefense from his trial, reports the Wichita Eagle . The ...
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• Connie Shultz: Reproductive Health Is Not A "Social Issue"

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 741
  Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author Connie Shulz takes on the language issue in the debate around reproductive health in her column this past weekend . "Language matters, so lets be clear: Womens reproductive health is not a social issue, writes Shulz. Deciding whether to carry ...
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• Roundup: Enforcement of Illinois Parental Notification Law Delayed Until 2010

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 741
  NOTES FROM THE NEWS: Illinois parental notification law put on hold again According to Chicago Public Radio , a restraining order upheld in circuit court has once again delayed enforcement of the lllinois law requiringdoctors to notify parents that their teen daughter is seeking an abortion. The delay is in ...
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• The Death of BPA?

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 145
  MomsRising and other organizations have been working for years to keep kids safe from toxic Bisphenol-A (BPA) in food containers and bottles. Weve generated tens of thousands of letters to Congress and state legislatures, and sent pages of petition signatures to manufacturers. Weve made progress -- but we still have a ...
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