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What We Are Missing in the Trans-Vaginal Ultrasound Debate

Tracy Weitz | Posted 05.05.2013 | Politics
Read More: State Legislatures, Medical Rape, Access to Abortion, Commentary, Abortion, Legislation, Politics, Forced Ultrasound, Media, Forced Transvaginal Ultrasounds 2013, State-Sanctioned Rape, Forced Transvaginal Ultrasound, Mandatory Ultrasound, Law and Policy, Abortion Restrictions, Politics News
Tracy Weitz

Everyone please step away from the ledge. The public discourse about mandated trans-vaginal ultrasounds for abortion patients is completely out of control--among both abortion rights opponents and abortion rights supporters.

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Rape, Forced Pregnancy, Personhood, and Crimes Against Humanity

Lynn M. Paltrow | Posted 10.24.2012 | Politics
Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Rape, Legitimate Rape, Reproductive Rights, Amendment 46, Access to Abortion, Personhood Amendment, Genocidal Rape, Fetal Personhood, Human Rights, Personhood Colorado, Colorado Personhood, Personhood Amendments, Forced Pregnancy, Reproductive Justice, Proposed Initiative 46, Politics News
Lynn M. Paltrow

If Proposed Initiative 46 passes, men who rape women in Colorado will be secure in the knowledge that their efforts to humiliate and degrade those women will be backed up and reinforced by state action forcing those women to go to term -- whether they want to or not.

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Dishonoring Mothers With The Sixth Commandment: We Need Reproductive Rights For Mother's Day

Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D. | Posted 07.04.2011 | Religion
Read More: Abortion, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Planned Parenthood, Pro-Choice, Mother's Day, Ten Commandments, Sixth Commandment, Standing Again at Sinai, Abortion in the Bible, Meaning of Mother's Day, Access to Abortion, Religious Pro-Choice Voices, Religion News
Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.

This Mother's Day, we need to commit to restoring federal funding to ALL the health care needs of mothers, including reproductive health services.

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Catholic Hospitals Back Health Care Reform: Bart Stupak Continues to Whine

Reproductive Justice | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Access to Abortion, Heath Care, U.S. Catholic Bishops, Religion and Health Care, Reproductive Rights, Catholic Hospitals, Politics News
Reproductive Justice

A group representing America's Catholic hospitals announced last week that it would support the Senate's health care reform legislation, breaking rank with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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