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Original Technorati articles tagged “reproductive rights”

• in Technorati Women
  Woman Denied by Republican Darrell Issa Gives Testimony on Ed Show
  The testimony of Sandra Fluke is important and deserves to be heard
  by danbimrose / on Feb 16, 2012
• in Politics
  No April Fooling: The Scary Road to the Demolition of Roe v Wade
  Lawmakers want to limit abortion and close in on Roe v Wade
  by lauracarroll / on Apr 2, 2011
• in Politics
  The Craigslist Congressman Goes Down, So to Speak
  If you can't trust some anonymous bimbo you meet on Craigslist, who the hell CAN you trust?
  by parkypundit / on Feb 10, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “reproductive rights”

 

• Men, Step Up on Family Planning

  
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  A woman holds her baby in a village in southern Niger, where progress in womens access to family planning is being made. Babatunde Osotimehin: Women need to be able to control their own reproductive healthOsotimehin: Women in developing world ... The post Men, Step Up on Family Planning appeared first on ...
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• Pro abortion groups seek to exclude pro-life group in Arkansas abortion suit

  
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  THV (AP) : Opponents of Arkansas law banning most abortions 12 weeks into a pregnancy say a group that wants to help defend the restriction shouldnt participate in a hearing next week.
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• Purity Culture and Sexual Assault

  
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  Caperton covered the Elizabeth Smart speech about abstinence already , and my Guardian column this week is on a similar topic: How an emphasis on purity is bad for women, bad for men and bad for rape survivors : Where does a woman’s value lie? In her brain? Her heart? Her spirit? According to right-wing culture ...
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• Purity Culture and Sexual Assault

  
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  Caperton covered the Elizabeth Smart speech about abstinence already , and my Guardian column this week is on a similar topic: How an emphasis on purity is bad for women, bad for men and bad for rape survivors : Where does a woman’s value lie? In her brain? Her heart? Her spirit? According to right-wing culture ...
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• Judge: Obama Admin.s Emergency Contraception Argument Is "Something Out of an Alternate Reality"

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 150
  On Friday, US District Court Judge Edward Korman went all Dikembe Mutombo on the Obama administrations request to delay implementation of his ruling that emergency contraception be made available over the counter to everyone within 30 days. The Department of Justice announced last week that it is appealing Kormans ...
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• Your Womb Envy is Showing

  
  Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross - Women, Sexuality, Politics, News, Culture, and Liberation — Authority: 141
  planB.jpg After extensive research the FDA (the scientists) declared that Plan B (emergency contraception - EC) should be sold over-the-counter with no age restrictions. The Justice Department hit the roof - theyve conceded to over-the-counter access but want an 18-and-over age restriction. My ...
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• Abortion and mental health research not as clear-cut as reported; no surprises there

  
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  In a previous post I questioned recent research which was widely reported as “proving” that there’s no positive mental health benefit associated with abortion – thus basically “disproving” the idea that abortions are being legitimately permitted on mental health grounds in NZ. Via some helpful pixies, I ...
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• Akiba Solomon on Evangelical "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" Targeting Black Women

  
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  Colorlines: The Missionary Movement to Save Black Babies, by Akiba Solomon: Last December, Care Net—the nation’s largest network of evangelical Christian crisis pregnancy centers—featured a birth announcement of sorts on the website of its 10-year-old Urban Initiative. Under the headline,...
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• Why the Delay Approving RU486 in Canada?

  
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  by Jarrah Hodge Australia is well on its way to making publicly available mifepristone and misoprostol, two drugs that make up RU486, used for abortion up to 49 days after becoming pregnant. If you’ve never heard of it it might sound a little scary, and that’s the angle anti-choice activists and legislators ...
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• Another Benghazi hearing falls flat

  
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  Shorter Question Everything • With a whimper . Issa and his friends said, this hearing will be different . Now we have whistleblowers . This is will be The Day Everything Changes. This was a hearing so significant, so monumental, that Republican staffers on Capitol Hill felt the need to make movie posters ...
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• Standing Up to the Catholic Church

  
  Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross - Women, Sexuality, Politics, News, Culture, and Liberation — Authority: 141
  20110726_119490168_enda-kenny_1_homepage_blog_horizontal.jpg Ive always felt that the Catholic Church was a bit of a bully. The Borgias has confirmed most of my suspicions but recent events in Ireland have solidified my wholehearted belief in the separation of church and state. Irish Prime ...
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• Review: Fighting to Choose by Alison McCulloch

  
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  I struggle to find a properly punchy intro to this review.  Because all I really want to say is, if you have an interest in the history of the reproductive rights struggle in New Zealand, read this book . If you don’t have an interest in the history of the reproductive rights struggle in New Zealand, also read ...
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• Another Upchuckable Week: The place where religion meets your rights

  
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  Its Fund Drive Time for The Political Carnival. Our Support TPC page is at http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/supporttpc/ . We could really use the help. Thanks! Please welcome back guest blogger K.C. Boyd. You might remember her from her earlier posts . This one is longer than her others, so we’re only ...
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• Why El Salvador Must Immediately #SaveBeatriz

  
  Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog — Authority: 139
  Women’s human rights activists gather in El Salvador to demand Beatriz is granted the life-saving treatment she needs (Photo Credit: Amnesty International). By Kathryn Striffolino, Crisis Prevention and Response Advocate. Follow her on Twitter  @katiestriff . As you’re reading this, the Salvadoran ...
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• Quote of the Day

  
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  [Content Note: War on agency.] "Youre disadvantaging young people, African Americans, the poor—thats the policy of the Obama administration?" — District Court judge Edward Korman this morning, "in a charged and dramatic two-hour hearing in which the Obama administration defended its arbitrary policy to limit ...
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• Consequences for “sin” vary widely by one’s position in society

  
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  Today is Special Election Day in South Carolina, where Republican Mark Sanford faces off against Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch to fill a vacant Congressional seat. Sanford, of course, is the former Governor who, while he was a Governor, famously hiked the Appalachian Trail in South America with his mistress without ...
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• [link] A Brief History of Abortion in Ireland

  
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  This week, I’ve started to think if I never heard the word “abortion” again, I’d be a happy camper. I’ve been avoiding listening to the radio and watching television in an attempt to avoid the subject. Meanwhile, I’ve been spending most of my free time on the Abortion Rights Campaign. You might be ...
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• Emergency Plan B Contraception: no age restrictions?

  
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  The Washington Post has posted its opinion.  Here is the background part for your consideration: WHEN U.S. District Judge Edward Korman ruled last month that the government had to allow unrestricted, over-the-counter access to the emergency contraceptive Plan B, it seemed as though the Obama administration had ...
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• Colorado Supreme Court Punts on Fetal Rights, Rejects Catholic Health Case

  
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  DENVER– The national media storm came and went. The Colorado bishops issued their condemnation. And the state Supreme Court declined to hear the case. Jeremy Stodghill in a January 2013 interview with TCI. Catholic Health Initiatives, Englewood-based national nonprofit, won’t have to go to court again ...
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• This is so the worst thing youre going to read all day.

  
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  [Content Note: Hostility for agency; injury/death; guns.] Kirsten Powers at The Daily Beast: Abortion Rights Community Has Become the NRA of the Left . Actual subhead: "The abortion clinic of alleged killer Kermit Gosnell was not illegal. But any talk of more government regulation unleashes an NRA-style assault ...
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