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• Roundup: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 690
  Todays roundup is all about representing -- or misrepresenting, as all of our groups would claim.Planned Parenthoods across the country are used to having their mission andtheir record distorted, and Planned Parenthood in Fort Collins,Colorado is no exception.  The group attempts to clear the record in a letter to ...
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• Appropriations Bill Ends Abstinence-Only Funding, Increases Family Planning

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 690
  There was a lot of good news packed into the 2010 OmnibusAppropriations bill which was passed by Congress over the weekend. For thefirst time ever, the appropriations bill eliminated all funding forabstinence-only sex education programs in favor of evidence-based programs thatfocused on preventing unintended ...
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• Somewhere between the tooth fairy and the chuckling oyster

  
  Corrente — Authority: 619
  That was California Representative Pete Stark s take on "managed competition" back in 1993 when it was poised to become ClintonCare. Celinda Lake , in 1993: After conducting extensive focus groups on health care, pollster Celinda Lake discovered that the more people are told about the Canadian system, “the ...
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• Reflections on Stupak, the RJ Movement and Feminism

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 690
  A few weeks ago, Iattended the Day of Action against the Stupak Amendment with my organization,the Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP). We rode on a bus organized bythe National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH), with colleaguesI already knew, Twitter friends whose faces were now connected to ...
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• Misinformation and Confusion Key Aims of Anti-Choice Ads by ICare (Part One)

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 690
  This article is Part One in a series on an advertising supplement being sold by Minneapolis-based Human Life Alliance to colleges and universities. In each piece, Robin Marty, RH Reality Check Contributing Editor, will examine one in the series of ads for misleading, dangerous and outrageous information.  Robin ...
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• Alternative Birth Control Methods: FAQs

  
  WH Latest Items — Authority: 515
  1. What do I do if I miss a day of taking my birth control pills? read more
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• Survey Shows that Recession Has Strained Family Planning Centers as Demand Rises

  
  Reproductive Rights Prof Blog — Authority: 139
  Guttmacher Institute news release: Recession Puts Strain on Family Planning Centers as Demand Rises and Resources Shrink:Women of Reproductive Age Disproportionately Uninsured Publicly funded family planning providers are struggling to meet a growing need for subsidized contraceptive care, which is...
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• Court Hears Contraceptive Questions Debate in Yaz Litigation

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 530
  Law.com (Legal Intelligencer): ". . . The plaintiffs allege in papers that the birth control pills caused injures like pulmonary embolism, blood clots in the legs, heart attacks, strokes and gall bladder and kidney disease. "
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• Challenge to Irish Abortion Law

  
  womensgrid — Authority: 143
  Last week it was announced that three women, known as A, B, and C, have begun their challenge to Ireland’s ban on abortion in the European Court of Human Rights. The three women travelled to Britain to have abortions and claim that the Irish anti-abortion laws caused health risk, trauma and humiliation. Although the ...
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• NYT Letter to Editor by Congresswoman Capps Rebuts Stupak Editorial

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 690
  In a Letter to the Editor by Congresswoman Capps (D-CA) published this weekend in the New York Times , Capps writes: "I agree with Representative Bart Stupakthat there is a lot of misinformation about abortion coverage in thehealth reform bill (“ What My Amendment Won’t Do ,” Op-Ed, Dec. 9). ...
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• Health Reform: Abortion is the Wrong Fight at the Wrong Time

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 690
  As a Baptist minister from Nebraska born in Louisiana, I have watched from the pulpit as three formative events profoundly reshaped America’s view of its destiny and possibilities: the 9-11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, and the recent economic meltdown. I hoped that this year, life would be better for my ...
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• To End the Campus Rape Epidemic, Let Go of Secrecy

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 690
  Earlier this month, The Center for PublicIntegrity (CPI) released a sobering, detailed series of reports--compiled over ninemonths of research--on the problem of campus rape. The report, Sexual Assault on Campus: AFrustrating Search for Justice , includeddetailed accounts of individual experiences on campuses ...
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• "Crushing Student Loan Debt" Doubles as Birth Control, Says Conservative

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 690
  Paying for babies isnt just a seedy black market adoption scheme anymore. It was one of the solutions suggested to boost the U.S. birth rate among college student loan-strapped couples at a recent Family Research Council policy lecture. Allan Carlson proposes paying up to $5,000 per baby born, or one-quarter of ...
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• Drunk adults have unsafe sex during festivities

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  London, Dec 14 (IANS) Adults, under 35 years, may be exposing themselves to greater risk of pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases during the festive period, says a new research.Nearly half the respondents, aged 18-34 years, stated that they drink more alcohol over the festive period compared to other times of ...
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• Eliminating HPV Vaccine Mandate For Immigrant Women: A Victory On the Road To Reproductive Justice

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 690
  This article is co-authored by Miriam Yeung, Executive Director,  and Amanda Allen, Reproductive Justice Fellow/Georgetown Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow at National Asian Pacific American Womens Forum. This week the reproductive justice movement is celebrating asignificant victory. EffectiveDecember 14 ...
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• Manhattan Declaration

  
  Sisters of the Gospel of Life — Authority: 115
  Please consider signing the Manhattan Declaration . A Call of Christian Conscience Christians, when they have lived up to the highest ideals of their faith, have defended the weak and vulnerable and worked tirelessly to protect and strengthen vital institutions of civil society, beginning with the family. We are ...
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• Teenagers offered birth control pill without prescription

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 487
  Teenage girls in inner-city London will be able to acquire birth control pills without prescription in a new NHS pilot program. Three pharmacies in inner-city London’s Southwark and Lambeth — areas known to have some of the highest teenage pregnancy rates — are set to participate in an NHS pilot program that ...
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• More Than One In Four 18-34 Year Olds (27%) Admit To Having Unprotected Sex Due To Being Too Drunk To Remember Contraception, UK

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 143
  Adults aged under 35 may be putting themselves at increased risk of unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) over the next few weeks of festivities, according to new independent research conducted by YouGov Plc and launched by leading sexual health charity Marie Stopes International… Source: ...
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• International Human Rights Day MUST Include Sexual Rights

  
  http://sexualintelligence.wordpress.com — Authority: 406
  Yesterday was International Human Rights Day. On such a day, we think of journalists and political activists who are jailed, tortured or killed; people so poor they have no toilets or clean water; people forced to live under brutal religious or political regimes; and children deprived of school, sold into heavy ...
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• Triphasil

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 149
  Archives Of Family Medicine – November 1992 Click here to see the details and full-size version in the gallery This ad and thousands more can be seen on the AdPharm gallery , the largest online pharmaceutical advertising gallery.
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