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• Is the Church Overstepping? Fight Escalates Between Church and DC City Council Over Threat to Withdraw Social Services in DC

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 737
  The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, DC has threatened to stop providing all social services within the District of Columbia unless the DC City Council abandons plans to pass a same-sex marriage law. This threat comes during at the end of the week the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops promised to bring ...
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• Whose Team Is It, Anyway?

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 159
  by Katha Pollitt The Nation Katha Pollitt’s new book of poems, The Mind-Body Problem , has just been published by Random House. You know what I don’t want to hear right now about the Stupak-Pitts amendment banning abortion coverage from federally subsidized health insurance policies? That it’s the ...
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• E.J. Dionne: Democrats should ‘learn to live’ with leaving women behind on health care.

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 549
  In his Washington Post column today, E.J. Dionne claimed that pro-choice lawmakers and advocates are overstating how detrimental the Stupak amendment would be to women’s access to abortion:   »  noticia original
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• RNC To Eliminate Abortion Coverage in Health Plan, Undermining Rights of Female Employees

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 737
  Washington Monthly reports this morning that the RNC, which has provided coverage for abortion care for its employees for over 18 years and was suddenly "caught out" this week, is now proceeding to remove that coverage from its policy. Hypocrisy?  In the Republican Party?  Naaah. "Thedebate over financing of ...
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• Got Faith? Which One? Gordon Newby Discusses How Stupak Amendment Favors One Religious Ideology at the Expense of Others

  
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  In a must-read piece in this mornings Religion Dispatches , Gordon D. Newby makes a clear--and overdue--case why the Stupak amendment undermines not only womens reproductive and sexual rights, but also abrogates the rights of all of us to freedom of religion. "The debate about abortion, particularly as connectedto ...
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• Asia Cast for Friday 13th November

  
  Asia Cast — Authority: 125
  Professors say violence between students and in society is a common site in China where the communist philosophy promotes fighting. (By Mark & Andrea Busse/Flickr) In this Bulletin… - Student beatings a common sight on Chinese campuses; - Human rights group reports on China’s illegal detention centres; and ...
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• Anti-Choice Groups Misuse Guttmacher Data To Make A Faulty Case

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 737
  Among the many arguments being made in the debate over health carereform is the claim that because very few women use private insurancecoverage to pay for abortion services, loss of this coverage would haveminimal impact. Those making this argument cite a Guttmacher Institute statistic showing that 13% of all ...
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• The Other Fight in Health Reform: Immigrants Access to Medical Coverage

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 737
  Outrageous, incredible, unbelievable. We’ve heard these words quite a lot from reproductive rights groups and pro-choice advocates, still in shock over the U.S. House of Representatives’ decision to pass an amendment banning most abortions from all public and privately funded health plans in the insurance ...
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• The Bishops Huge Financial Stake in Stupak-Pitts

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 737
  Wendy Norris, a freelance reporter and editor in Denver,  writes on assignment for RH Reality Check. The justifiable anger at the U.S. Conference of CatholicBishops for lobbying on the Stupak-Pitts amendment overshadows what is possiblythe bigger motive for the Vatican: the billions of dollars at stake for ...
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• Trading Women’s Rights for Political Power

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 549
  A grim reality sits behind the joyful press statements from Washington Democrats. To secure passage of health care legislation in the House, the party chose a course that risks the well-being of millions of women for generations to come.   »  noticia original
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• RNC Health Plan Covers Abortion and Other Facts & Lies Behind the Stupak Amendment

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 737
  According to an article in Politico today, The Republican National Committee ’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on innocent human life.” Well, sure their plan covers abortion. Because women at the RNC should be ...
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• Hear us roar! Help me find information on womens rights around the world

  
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  Where can I find detailed information on how womens rights & access to services vary from nation to nation? Im looking for a compendium or index of the status of women around the world, organized by nation. This database would describe womens rights, status, and access to various services in all the nations of ...
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• Roundup: Michelman and Kissling in the New York Times; Keenan Discusses Stupak on "Talk of the Nation"

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 737
  Michelman and Kissling on Stupak in the New York Times "A grim reality sits behind the joyful press statements fromWashington Democrats," write Kate Michelman and Frances Kissling on the editorial page of todays New York Times . To secure passage of health care legislation in the House, the party chose a ...
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• Joya: End the occupation of my country Afghanistan

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 141
  By Malalai Joya, CommonDreams.org , Nov 12, 2009 As an Afghan woman who was elected to Parliament, I am in the United States to ask President Barack Obama to immediately end the occupation of my country. Eight years ago, women’s rights were used as one of the excuses to start this war. But today, ...
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• GOP Sees Win-Win as "Stupak Bomb" Splits Dems

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 737
  This article was published in the New Mexico Independent and reprinted here under a partnership between New Mexico Independent , the Center for Independent Journalism and R H Reality Check . On Saturday, 64 Democrats  backed Rep. Bart Stupak’s (D-Mich.) amendment to prevent abortions from beingfunded with ...
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• Anti-Choice "Egg-as-Person" Initiatives Threaten the Rights Of Women

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 737
  This article was originally published at Colorado Independent and is printed here under a partnership between Colorado Independent , the Center for Independent Media, and RH Reality Check . Eight months pregnant, confused and suffering psychological disorders, Jessica Clyburn jumped from a fifth story ...
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• Catholic Church Threatens District of Columbia Over Gay Marriage Bill

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 737
  According to the Washington Post , the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, DC is threatening to withdraw all social services from the District of Columbia (DC) if the city does not change its proposed same-sex marriage law. The Post reports that:  Under the bill, headed for a D.C. Council vote next month, ...
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• (VIDEO) Conservative Catholic College Rejects Birth Control

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 737
  I am one of the faculty members ofBelmont Abbey College who filed a charge with Equal Employment OpportunityCommission against my employer for removing coverage of birth control from our employee health care plan. I do not see this as a religious issue but rather one of genderdiscrimination. The college prescription ...
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• How Can I Make My First Time Special?

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 737
  Sarah M. asks: Having read several of your articles concerning "first time" sex, I understand that it may not (and probably wont be?) everything Im expecting, and that youre "first time" isnt as big a deal as society makes it seem. But I would really like my first time to be special. Not necessarily perfect, but ...
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• Another Doctor Mad As Hell

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 737
  Congress has done it. They’ve thrown women’s reproductiverights under the bus. They’ve catered to religious extremists rather thanprotect the health of our mothers, daughters, and sisters. They’ve sacrificedthe health of the American people on the altar of health insurance industryprofits. They took an ...
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