Reproductive Rights

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• Health Care Reform: Pro-choice Forces Win the First Round in the Senate

  
  Majority Post — Authority: 501
  Health Care Reform: Pro-choice Forces Win the First Round in the Senateby Peggy SimpsonSenate Democrats held firm to allow debate to begin on a health care bill that avoids the abortion restrictions of the House-passed measure—and pro-choice activists are mobilizing to keep the heat on. But there are many hurdles ...
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• The Feministing Five: Rose Afriyie

  
  Feministing — Authority: 729
  Regular readers will have noticed that in recent months, Feministing has brought in a number of new contributors: Ariel, Jos, Lori, Rose Afriye and myself. No doubt youre getting to know them by reading their posts and engaging with their ideas in the comments section, but I also suspect that you might want to know a ...
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• NOW gang to hold pro-abortion/healthcare rally, Fri. Dec. 4 in NYC (BARF ALERT)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  NY Activists: Join NOW NY State Dec. 4! Demand health care reform that includes full reproductive rights for ALL women! Join with the National Organization for Women New York State chapter, local activits and prominent reproductive rights advocates to say NO to any Stupak-Pitts-like amendemnts in the National Health ...
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• Hangers Are Headed To Congress

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 627
  CREDO Mobile, a cell phone provider that donates 1% of your charges goes to progressive nonprofits, is mailing coat hangers to all the democratic members of the House of Representatives who voted in support of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment in Obama’s health care reform bill. The Credo site is asking people to sign ...
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• National Day of Action Against Stupak-Pitt Amendment

  
  Feministing — Authority: 729
  Courtney mentioned in yesterdays What We Missed that the Senate HCR bill does not have the same vicious right-wing vitriol of the Stupak-Coathanger Amendment. mcjoan at DailyKos has a full break down of some of the key provisions in the Capp Amendment which is replacing the Stupak-Pitt Amendment. Tracy-Flora ...
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• Thoughts on New Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines

  
  Knitting Clio — Authority: 412
  I’ve been replying to a query about this on Hartford Courant columnist Susan Campbell’s blog , so am going to put some of my thoughts down here at Knitting Clio as well.  Susan writes: “Here are the new recommendations. Tell me I’m getting all conspiracy-theorist and I will at least half-listen, ...
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• Insurance coverage for abortion

  
  Feminist Philosophers — Authority: 538
  The Stupak Amendment to the US Health Care bill would dictate that no insurance policy which covers abortion (except in cases of rape, incest or danger to mother’s life) could be part of the pool of insurance plans for which people are entitled to government subsidies. As a long-time UK resident I confess that I ...
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• How the Senate Abortion Language Differs from Stupak

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 767
  illustration by twolf1 The language on abortion in the original version of House health care reform bill, before it was amended on the floor, and the Senate language on abortion are very similar. Both say that: No federal funds will be used to pay for abortions, but as provided by the Hyde amendment, exceptions ...
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• The Abortion Compromise in the Senate Health Care Bill

  
  Feministe — Authority: 661
  As you have probably read by now, the Senate introduced its version of the health care bill yesterday . As expected, it’s good and bad — it includes a public option, but leaves a lot of people out in the cold, and opens up the healthcare debate to an other four years (at least) of what FDL aptly calls ...
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• Get the Facts About Stupak

  
  http://www.now.org/news/whatsnew.html — Authority: 122
  http://www.now.org/issues/health/stupak_facts.html Get the facts about the Stupak-Pitts Amendment and stay up to date with NOWs latest actions -- like the rally in Pennsylvania this Saturday!
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• African Women Celebrate 30 Years of CEDAW

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  Gambia’s vice president, Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy, has told local and international delegates at the commemoration of 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women(CEDAW) in Banjul, that the crucial role that women play and must play in all efforts to eradicate ...
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• Study: Stupak will end abortion coverage "for all women"

  
  Feministing — Authority: 729
  A new study from the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services reports that "the Stupak/Pitts Amendment will have an industry-wide effect, eliminating coverage of medically indicated abortions over time for all women , not only those whose coverage is derived through a health ...
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• Chioces: Adoption

  
  Repro Health Hub — Authority: 113
  The National Institute for Reproductive Health advocates for women to have access to all reproductive health choices when faced with an unplanned pregnancy. While access to abortion is often the spotlighted issue concerning reproductive justice, there is a whole spectrum of choices to which women must have access. ...
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• "Palinizing" Prejean, Prejeanizing Palin: Two Conservative Women Look Out For #1 [Book Reviews]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 816
  Carrie Prejean has complained of being "Palinized" — that is, discriminated against because shes a conservative woman — but she and Sarah Palin have more in common than just a victim complex. Ive had the unenviable task of reading both Prejeans Still Standing and Palins Going Rogue in the last couple ...
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• Free Condoms Would Reduce Greenhouse Gases

  
  American Reality — Authority: 134
  The United Nation’s Population Fund has stated that free condoms and family planning advice would reduce global warming. The agency did not recommend that countries set limits on the number of children people have, but it made it clear that women with access to reproductive services have fewer children and ...
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• Women: Get Realistic About Your Uteruses

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 767
  (photo by massdistraction) I guess you were the only one who didn’t know : [M]any in the abortion rights community — which has been divided by tactical disagreements over the years — also recognize they were outmaneuvered by adversaries who understood the basic anti-abortion arithmetic of abortion votes in ...
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• From Hyde to Stupak, over 30 years of limiting access to abortion

  
  Feministing — Authority: 729
  I was having a conversation about access to abortion the other day with two friends who are both engaged and informed about feminist and reproductive health topics. When discussing the Stupak Amendment I learned neither of them was aware that access to abortion has been restricted at the federal level before. This ...
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• Piper Palin, Superstar

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 156
  In the opening pages of “Going Rogue,” Sarah Palin tells an anecdote about the Alaska State Fair that took me aback. Here’s the story: Ahead, on my right, I saw the Alaska Right to Life (RTL) booth, where a poster caught my eye, taking my breath away. It featured the sweetest baby girl swathed in pink, pretend ...
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• High-Stakes of Stupak-Pitts Amendment for Women of Color

  
  RaceWire — Authority: 607
  Written by Juhu Thukral , Director of Law and Advocacy, The Opportunity Agenda A few Saturdays ago, on November 7th, I was at the annual SisterSong meeting, a gathering of about 300 reproductive justice advocates. What was exhilarating and unusual about this meeting was that the vast majority of people attending ...
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• A Womans Right to Choose

  
  The Debate Link — Authority: 428
  Were on the abortion unit in Constitutional Law III, and tonight Im reading Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey , 505 U.S. 833 (1992), the case famous for upholding Roe v. Wade . One argument they discuss in the case is the issue about a womans right not to have an abortion -- that is, the ...
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