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• Relatives perform last rights of Charsadda bomb suicide attack victims

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Islamabad, Nov.11 (ANI): A day after a suicide bomb killed 34 persons, including three women and six children, in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province’s (NWFP) Charsadda town, hundreds of people attended the funeral of the victims.People performed the last rights of their near and dear ones.Relatives of the ...
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• The First of All Liberties: Health Care For All Women’s Needs

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 729
  This article first appeared in On The Issues Magazine and is reprinted here with permission from the editors. Why care about women’s health in health care reform? I think it’scritical for reproductive justice advocates to also become health careadvocates in today’s world, but the reasons why were best ...
  17 hours ago

• The Media on Stupak-Pitts: Theatrical, Not Factual

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 729
  Was this weekends health-care vote a showdownbetween powerful factions, a battle of spin and influence, a referendum on anew leader and a test of political capital? Or was it also a period during which legislators hammered out actual lawspotentially altering millions of Americans lives--and womens in particular? ...
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• Stupak-Pitts: Trampling on Faith and Conscience

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 729
  The Stupak Amendment isn’t only about trampling on women’s rights and lives, as devastating as that is.  It’s also about trampling on their faith and conscience.  RCRC’s chief concern about this amendment is that it is encroaching on religious freedom. To be clear, the U.S. Conference of Catholic ...
  17 hours ago

• Harkin: Stupak Amendment A Slippery Slope

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 729
  This article is republished from Iowa Independent under a partnership between Iowa Independent , the Center for Independent Media and RH Reality Check. A last-minute amendment to the health carereform bill that passed the U.S. House on Saturday is disruptive to thecurrent ban on federal funding for abortion ...
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• Campaigning on maternal mortality in Latin America

  
  Livewire - Amnesty International blogging for human rights — Authority: 103
  By Fernanda Doz Costa,Researcher on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the AmericasLast Friday, I participated in a very interesting hearing about maternal mortality, where four experts from the Americas gave testimony before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights  in Washington DC.It was great working in ...
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• Midwestern Health Advocates Speak Out on Stupak-Pitts

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 729
  Today, I had the chance to sit in on an action call hosted by Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.  The call, run by President Sarah Stoesz and Vice President of External Affairs Connie Lewis, captured much of the anger, frustration, fear and hope that many of us have been experiencing ...
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• The impact of the global financial crises on children

  
  Karen Grepin's Global Health Blog — Authority: 409
  I have just finished up at really interesting conference in London entitled " The global economic crisis - including children in the policy response ". The conference was jointly hosted by UNICEF and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). At the conference a series of papers analyzing lessons from past crises and ...
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• Not conceving? It takes two to tango.

  
  News Moms Need — Authority: 128
  I don’t know why it is, but so often I have heard women who haven’t be able to conceive say “What’s wrong with me?”  For some reason, women have a tendency to assume blame for whatever goes wrong – well, at least not according to their plan.  Often, patience is needed.  (It can take a lot longer to ...
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• Doctors without Borders in Somalia

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 625
  News of piracy and warring clans often overshadows another story out of Somalia: the suffering of ordinary Somali citizens, who often go without enough food, and without decent medical care. The Paris-based group Doctors with Borders, often known by its French initials MSF, has been operating a community hospital in ...
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• "Weve Got Your Back" Campaign Launches on Daily Kos

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 729
  Contributor "Adam B" at Daily Kos has launched an effort to show vulnerable pro-choice Dems "weve got your back."  He offers an updated list of Dems who did the right thing on Stupak and asks for your help in supporting them.  The list is below; the link to his campaign is here .  Go on over and help out.   ...
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• The Reaction To Stupak: Whats Really Pissing Me Off

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 729
  This article was originally published on Daily Kos. "Irrational." "Hypersensitive." "Overreacting." "Hysterical." Women recognize these words all too well. Theyre put-downs many ofthem have had thrown at them all their lives anytime they raise issuesabout their treatment in relationships, school, the ...
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• Dear Mr. President: Abortion Is Part of Health Care

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 729
  Today, President Obama, the same man who as a candidate actually promised to push for passage of the Freedom of Choice Act, repeated one of the most tired excuses now used by the Democratic party in response to its failure to be truly pro-choice. The famous "This is a health care bill, not an abortion bill" excuse. ...
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• November 9th Response to Show Cause Hearing set Battered Mothers loose Custody to Abusers; Domestic Violence on rise in Shawnee County

  
  A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice — Authority: 511
  2009 November 9th Response to Show Cause Hearing set November 13 dombrowski   http://www.ktka.com/news/2009/oct/20/domestic_violence_rise_shawnee_county/Domestic violence is on the rise in Shawnee County "I remember curling up in a ball to protect her from the ...
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• Pill does not cure gender inequality

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 533
  There’s a very illuminating leader in The Lancet last week about maternal mortality and the fact that despite sustained global campaigning efforts there has been little progress on the Millennium Development Goal to reduce maternal deaths by 75% by 2015. The article makes some good suggestions for why this has ...
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• (VIDEO) With Friends Like This....McCaskill Says Stupak Amendment "Not That Bad"

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 729
  Let me say this straight out:  I worked for the Obama campaign as a volunteer, like many did.  I worked nights, weekends, missed kids soccer and baseball games, and made more calls from my home phone to "swing states" than i make personally in a year.  I contributed more money than I can afford to Obama, to ...
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• UPDATED: DeGette Leading Charge Against Stupak Amendment in the House

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 729
  Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), co-chair of the House Pro-Choice Caucus and a leader of efforts to defeat the Stupak Amendment in the House health care reform bill last Saturday is now collecting signatures of House members who are vowing to vote against reform unless the language is stripped. The effort began ...
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• AIDS Leading Cause Of Death For Women Worldwide [Sobering Statistics]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 822
  According to a new study by the World Health Organization, AIDS is the leading cause of death and disease in women 15 to 44 around the world. Also upsetting: maternal mortality accounts for 15% of adult female deaths. [ AP ]
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• Will the Stupak Amendment Force Women Whove Miscarried to Lose Insurance Coverage? I Think So

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 729
  This weekend, a group of male pro-life Democrats gambled with womens health, and women lost.  By broadly writing in that insurers can chose whether or not to cover "abortion services," pro-life amendments dont just affect their intended victims -- women seeking a way out of an unwanted or medically harmful ...
  2 days ago

• Why The Stupak Amendment Is A Monumental Setback For Abortion Access

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 729
  This article was originally published by ThinkProgress and is republished here with permission from the author and the Center for American Progress Action Fund . If you thought that just because abortion is a constitutional right andpart of basic reproductive health care it would be available in thereformed ...
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