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• Reflections on Stupak, the RJ Movement and Feminism

  
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  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)

  
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  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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• (VIDEO) "Ex-Gay" Movement Inflames Homophobia Here and Abroad

  
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  For those who watched RachelMaddow squaring off against Richard Cohen about “ex-gay therapy,” it waslike watching a tiger take on a tweetie bird, except in this case the tweetiebird is a dangerous force against human rights and really deserved to beswallowed whole.   Usually, Maddowprobably wouldn’t even ...
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• Uganda Bans Female Circumcision

  
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  From the BBC: Ugandan MPs have voted to outlaw female genital mutilation – also known as female circumcision. Anyone convicted of the practice, which involves cutting off a girl’s clitoris, will face 10 years in jail, or a life sentence if a victim dies. The BBC’s Joshua Mmali in Uganda says it is not ...
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• NYT Letter to Editor by Congresswoman Capps Rebuts Stupak Editorial

  
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  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

  
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  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

  
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  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

  
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  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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• Eliminating HPV Vaccine Mandate For Immigrant Women: A Victory On the Road To Reproductive Justice

  
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  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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• Eritrea: Praying Women Banned

  
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  From BBC News : Thirty elderly women have been arrested in Eritrea while praying together, one of their relatives living in the United States has told the BBC. Requesting anonymity, she said she only found out about her mother when she phoned to speak to her this week. Most of the women belonged to an ...
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• (VIDEO) Sen. Sherrod Brown Debunks "Republican Myths and Scare Tactics" in Health Reform

  
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  In the following video, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) debunks Republican "myths and scare tactics" in health reform, addressing misinformation spread in recent floor statements by Republican Senate leaders on Medicaid, Medicare, "government takeovers," and on other issues.
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• Achieving the Millennium Development Goals Requires Continued Investment in Global AIDS

  
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  This article is part of a series on global AIDS issues to be published by RH Reality Check throughout December.  To find other articles in this series, search "global AIDS 2009."  Significant progress has been made towards achievinguniversal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support for peopleliving ...
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• Young People Speak Up for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Worldwide, But U.S. Policy Lags

  
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  This article originally appeared in the Fall 2009 issue of the Guttmacher Policy Review , and is reprinted with permission from the author.   It article is part of a series on global AIDS issues to be published by RH Reality Check throughout December.   To find other articles in this series, search ...
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• House of Representatives Removes DC Abortion Funding Ban, Rejects Ban on Funding for Needle Exchange

  
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  In a major victory for public health, the U.S. House of Represenatives voted on Thursday to remove the ban that has barred the District of Columbia from using local tax money to help low-income women pay for abortions and alsoblocked a measure that would have effectively prevented the city frompaying for ...
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• Bishops: "Deplore Defeat of Nelson Amendment, Working To Maintain Stupak"

  
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  On Wednesday, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement calling defeat of the Nelson-Hatch-Casey amendment a "grave mistake," calling on the House to retain and the Senate to "address" these "flaws," and underscoring that they (the Bishops) will continue to work toward maintaining Stupak Amendment ...
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• Colorado Lawmaker Pushes Bill to Require Insurance Coverage of Birth Control and Maternity Care

  
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  Colorado Independent reports that a proposed state bill that would require Colorado insurance companies to cover maternity care would also require insurance companies tocover birth control.  Neither type of reproductive health care is widely available as an essential benefit in Colorado, so in most cases women ...
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• Every Day, Good Women Choose Abortion: I Am One of Them

  
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  Earlier this week, we published an article by Charlotte Taft about vicious attacks on Northland Family Planning Clinic in response to a video they have on their website called "Every Day Good Women Choose Abortion," which can be viewed here . Thelma, the author of this post, is the woman in that video., writing ...
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• Crowdsourcing Condoms: Where They Are and Where Theyre Not

  
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  Wendy Norris is a Denver-based editor and investigative reporter working on assignment for RH Reality Check. The locked, clear plastic case bolted onto the grocery store shelf resembles a little condom jail. They cant get out and you cant get in unless somebody with a uniform and a big set of keys unlocks the door to ...
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• Dilmah family opens new centre to help women and children in need

  
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  The family behind Dilmah tea has spent over NZ$27 million on the first stage of a complex in Sri Lanka that will care for abused women, differently abled children and marginalized children from urban slums in Sri Lanka, it was announced today.    The first phase of the MJF Centre has been opened by Merrill J. ...
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• Atheist? Dont Run for Office in North Carolina!!

  
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  Did you know that North Carolinas constitution bars "politicians who deny the existence of God" from holding office??? I didnt.  Until today.  I am one of those holdouts who thought the really meant it when they said "separation of church and state."  I thought that actually mean separate.  As in not together. ...
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