On Saturday, with the aide of some 60 Democrats, women's rights were effectively negated by the US Congress as the House passed the Stupak amendment to HR 3200, the Affordable Health Care Act of 2009.

More in-depth analysis of how we got here is forthcoming. But one...

A vote originally set for tomorrow on the House health care bill (HR 3200) may be delayed until next week, even after months of drama to arrive at this point. And to get to yes, Democrats are set to make another compromise on abortion care.

If there...

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Despite mounting threats to the clinic -- and potentially to the life -- of Nebraska Dr. Leroy Carhart, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has removed the federal marshals earlier charged with protecting...

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The Republican Party, apparently bereft of viable ideas on how to solve pressing issues, is living up to its reputation as a one-trick pony: launching misleading attacks either on economic policies or on health policies,...

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Last night, the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies passed the Fiscal Year 2010 appropriations bill and in doing so eliminated traditional sources of abstinence-only-until marriage...

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As the anticipated release by the White House of a "common ground" proposal on abortion draws near, numerous members of the male pontificator commentariat are trying to spark anxiety by claiming that Obama will...

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Or: Common Ground as a competitive team sport.

In a post on adoption today, Steve Waldman talks about adoption as a common ground position to which "pro-choice and pro-life" people can agree. He...

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A feature article published on RH Reality Check this morning, June 29th 2009, explores the links between sexual violence, coercion, patterns of contraceptive use, unintended pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infections in teens. The article...

"Two men, No Uteruses" was the name given by Will Saletan and Steve Waldman to their June 22nd mutual-admiration-society blogging heads chat on "common ground," in what I suppose was an effort to be cute. During the hour-plus program, they spent as much time as possible complimenting each other's...

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This past March, I wrote an article for RH Reality Check entitled Looking for Common Ground on Abortion? You're Standing on It. In it, I reviewed the evidence on abortion trends in the United...

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So much for agreeing on at least one basic premise in the debate about choice, reproductive rights, or even reproductive health.

Yesterday, a Republican Senator used his power to put a "hold" on...

In 1988, I stayed for a week with a married couple, both physicians, who ran what was then recognized as one of the best rural clinics in the state of Maharashtra, India. Even so, they could not work miracles in a setting in which reaching the clinic itself represented...

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How is it that people who traffic in discredited data and information get a regular column on the op-ed page of the New York Times?

I don't know, but Ross Douthat does....

News--Catholics for Choice, the leading pro-choice Catholic organization reflecting "the great majority of the faithful in the Catholic church who disagrees with the dictates of the Vatican on matters related to sex, marriage, family life and motherhood," called the appointment yesterday of Alexia Kelley as Director of Faith-based...

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In all the extensive coverage of the assassination in his church of Dr. George Tiller by a murderer affiliated with extremist right-wing groups, little has been said to shed light on what late-term abortions...

Dr. Paul Farmer, a founder of Partners in Health, recipient of the MacArthur "genius" award and a long-time provider of and advocate for basic health care for the poor is under consideration by the Obama Administration to head a newly overhauled foreign assistance program, according to sources close to Farmer....

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This is what bi-partisan looks like:

A farcical play in which the Democrats do everything right to win the White House, Senate, and House, and then run for cover from...

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In Kenya, homeland of President Obama's father and paternal grandparents, abortion is illegal except in very limited circumstances. More than 40 percent of births are unplanned according to the Guttmacher Institute, and one-fourth...

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The National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) in conjunction with the American Civil Liberties Union today joined Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and the Planned Parenthood Federation...