Cristina Page

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Cristina Page is author of How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex and spokesperson for birthcontrolwatch.org. Page also is a consultant for several national pro-choice groups and her policy proposals have been adopted by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the Washington State legislature and the New Jersey State legislature. Page has worked in the editorial departments of Glamour and Ms. magazines, ran a gubernatorial campaign in New York, and edited The Smart Girl's Guide to College. Her op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, Chicago Sun Times, Newsday, Guardian UK, Tampa Tribune and the Baltimore Sun. She is married with a son (and another on the way!) and lives in New York City.

Blog Entries by Cristina Page

A Mom Before the Prom

32 Comments | Posted October 10, 2008 | 02:34 AM (EST)


Now that the national attention on Bristol Palin's pregnancy is fading (for the time being) it seems the only discussion it inspired was about John McCain's vetting process and, by extension, his decision-making abilities. But there is another far more important subject raised by the 17-year-old's pregnancy. For decades, teen...

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The Dept. of Health and Hallowed Services

2 Comments | Posted August 22, 2008 | 04:19 PM (EST)


As Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Mike Leavitt has shown himself to be a devoted bureaucrat and a man of moral conviction. Unfortunately he insists on combining the two, tailoring the nation's business to his faith. That was about the only thing made clear by yesterday's...

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Misconception

106 Comments | Posted August 21, 2008 | 11:33 AM (EST)


One of the most amazing things about the stir caused by the recently leaked HHS proposal is how little, make that no, effort has been made to investigate whether the claim by the anti-abortion establishment about the mode of action of hormonal birth control is even true. In the...

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Love it or Leavitt

14 Comments | Posted August 8, 2008 | 03:00 PM (EST)


Some of the most chilling threats are whispered. This is the case in a recent blog post by Michael Leavitt, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. In soothing tones, Leavitt explains on his personal blog that a recently leaked HHS proposal was not what he intended....

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HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion

Posted July 15, 2008 | 02:24 PM (EST)


In a spectacular act of complicity with the religious right, the Department of Health and Human Services Monday released a proposal that allows any federal grant recipient to obstruct a woman's access to contraception. In order to do this, the Department is attempting to redefine many forms of contraception, the...

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Cashiers for Life

Posted June 20, 2008 | 04:57 PM (EST)


William Saletan, the Slate columnist who's made a career of claiming to be pro-choice while justifying attacks on reproductive rights, has had yet another epiphany: We should all support the rights of pharmacists to refuse to fill our doctor's prescriptions for birth control. According to Saletan, who defends pharmacy refusals...

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Better Fathers: Courtesy of the Sexual Revolution

Posted June 14, 2008 | 10:51 PM (EST)


Most Americans believe that the right to plan when to become pregnant was the most important step toward women's liberation. A Gallup poll revealed that more people cite birth control as having the "highest impact" on women than "opportunity for higher education," "access to jobs," political representation," or even the...

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Obama: The Real Pro-Life Candidate

Posted June 11, 2008 | 12:16 PM (EST)


Obama has a huge opportunity to win over an unlikely voting bloc: pro-life voters. The debate over reproductive rights has for decades existed in the abstract; it's been a back and forth volley over "values" that's heavy on emotion and light on fact. But the facts reveal surprising truths and...

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The Anti-Family Planning Movement: Coming to a Bedroom Nearest You

Posted June 7, 2008 | 12:19 PM (EST)


Like lawn ornaments in summer, protesters outside the local abortion clinic are fixtures in many places in the United States today.

Their presence and message have long been so predictable that, without looking or listening, people believe they understand the point. And so you might not notice that the...

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Swine Song

Posted May 23, 2008 | 04:21 PM (EST)


As the Bush presidency nears its end, the Christian Right is bellying up to the trough for a final feeding. They are hoping, with Bush's help, to get one more shot at their arch nemesis: the Planned Family. Thus the Unplanned Family Research Council has been spearheading a campaign...

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The Pro Teen Sex and Unwanted Pregnancy Movement

Posted May 7, 2008 | 01:16 PM (EST)


On this 'National Day to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy,' I thought it would be a fun exercise to compare the sexual activity of teenagers and their pregnancy rates in the most pro-choice states with those of the most pro-life states. I used NARAL's rankings to determine which...

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The McModerate

Posted February 26, 2008 | 10:07 AM (EST)


With detractors like Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rick Santorum, Tom Delay and James Dobson, most thinking people might conclude that John McCain comes highly recommended. But just because John McCain is an enemy of some of our most cartoonish villians does not make him...

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What the Huck?

Posted January 22, 2008 | 10:22 AM (EST)


Today is the 35th anniversary of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. For most Americans, the protracted battle appears never-ending, and for that matter, never-changing. The abortion debate has become political white noise, something you hear and tune out simultaneously. But while we've been half listening,...

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The Jamie Lynn Generation

Posted December 29, 2007 | 12:30 AM (EST)


The Spears family, it's safe to say, is shocked by very little these days, not with Britney in every tabloid. Still the recent news seemed to shock them. Their 16 year-old daughter, Jamie Lynn, the daughter on whom the family now seemed to pin their hopes, is pregnant. And while...

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Family Planning is Family Values

Posted December 20, 2007 | 12:08 PM (EST)


If you listen to the apocalyptic rhetoric of the religious right you'll find an important theme emerge: The introduction of contraception, which permits people to have sex for fun, is bound up with all of society's ills, from the imagined breakdown of the family to an undocumented surge in crimes...

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The Dog Whistlers: The One Question the "Pro-life" Presidential Candidates Don't Want You to Ask

Posted December 9, 2007 | 04:40 PM (EST)


98 percent of American women have done it.

37 million Americans are currently doing it.

Most of the GOP candidates oppose it.

What is it?

If you said "sex," you were close. The answer is "use contraception." In recent weeks, the GOP candidates have been asked a lot about their...

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Republican Presidential Candidates Announce a Bold New Plan for American Women: Do-it-Yourself Abortion

Posted November 29, 2007 | 04:21 PM (EST)


Any casual watcher of last night's Republican debate may have come away thinking that women don't have much at stake in this election. After all, of the questions CNN chose, less than a third were even from women. (Sadly even in cutting edge political forums, like The Daily Show, that's...

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Over Her Dead Body

Posted November 19, 2007 | 10:53 AM (EST)


Mitt Romney's "very close" relative died of an illegal abortion (which is why he used to say he wouldn't force his pro-life beliefs on you).

In the 1960s, Mitt Romney lost a "dear" and "close" relative to an illegal abortion. She was the sister of his brother-in-law, Loren "Larry"...

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The Deafening Silence

Posted October 18, 2007 | 09:53 AM (EST)


It's been a week since The Lancet published the comprehensive Guttmacher Institute study which found that bans on abortion fail to reduce abortion rates. The researchers of the study also discovered that countries where abortion is legal (and the emphasis is on prevention rather than prosecution) experience the most...

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Verizon, Can You Hear Us Now?

Posted September 28, 2007 | 01:23 PM (EST)


Looks like Verizon may have (finally!) woken up to the First Amendment, a small victory for reproductive rights. Though it took embarrassment on the front page of The New York Times to get it done, a frightening idea since political speech seems to be under attack -- subtly and not-so-subtly...

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