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Pollster: There's No Democrat Conspiracy On Sandra Fluke

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.10.2012

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Pollster Celinda Lake responded on Friday to the rumblings of conservative commentators who claim the Obama administration planted Georgetown law stud...

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Birth Control, Abortion Battles Inspire Protest Legislation (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 03.08.2012

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Debates over birth control and abortion have taken center stage in the states and in Congress, with Republicans in many state legislatures weighing bi...

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Why Our Blunt Narrative Doesn't Win

Eric Sapp | Posted 05.01.2012

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By making contraception only about women's health, we're telling voters contraception decisions are not about parents, not about men, and not about families.

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Contentious Contraception Measure Fails

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 03.01.2012

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The Senate voted on Thursday 51 to 48 to reject a controversial amendment sponsored by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) that would have overridden the Obama Adm...

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Kathleen Sebelius Decries 'Cynical Attempt To Roll Back Decades Of Progress In Women's Health'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.29.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Minutes after former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney found himself tripped up over whether or not he supported a bill that would allow em...

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Turning the Tide for Women: Vaginal Americans Rejoice?

Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 04.28.2012

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Transvaginal ultrasounds mandated in Virginia? Bring it! Aspirin as birth control! Tell me more. Things have threatened to become so comically repressive, it's woken us up out of our stupor. We're mad as hell.

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Imposing 'Sharia': Roman Catholic Version

Rabbi Arthur Waskow | Posted 04.28.2012

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It is Roman Catholic "sharia" about contraception that the USCCB has been trying to impose on Americans of all faiths and beliefs who happen to work at a Catholic-sponsored hospital or university.

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Warren, Brown Duel Over Crucial Issue

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 02.24.2012

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The Massachusetts U.S. Senate race between sitting Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren has reached a new frontier: t...

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House Democrats Hold Birth Control Hearing With Themselves

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 02.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Here's what happened in Congress on Thursday: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) presided over a hearing on women's health, f...

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House Democrats To Hear Birth Control Testimony From Woman Rejected By GOP

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 02.21.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In case it wasn't already apparent how politicized women's health has become on Capitol Hill, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali...

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WATCH: There Were How Few Women At The Contraception Rule Hearings?

The Huffington Post | Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 02.17.2012

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How did hearings on whether religious organizations should be required to offer women contraception end up taking place with so few women in the room?...

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House Democrat Mocks Newt Gingrich For Birth Control Comments

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 02.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) mocked former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on the House floor Thursday for his statements on abortio...

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Faith's Big Picture

Patricia McGuire | Posted 04.16.2012

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Catholic institutions that truly believe in celebrating life need to be good models of welcome, hospitality and pastoral care for all of God's children, whether virtuous or wayward, righteous or confused.

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The Birth Control Debate That Isn't Happening

Margie Omero | Posted 04.16.2012

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It's 2012, but to hear the Right talk about birth control, and "emotional" women in the workforce and the military, one might think we're trapped in Downton Abbey's 1914.

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White House Denounces Congress Revival Of Birth Control Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.15.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Unbowed by the dust-up from last week’s contraception debate, the Obama administration has jumped feet-first into the next round. ...

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God Didn't Keep the Apple from Adam: Catholic Bishops Need to Stop Playing Politics With Choice

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 02.14.2012

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Catholic institutions have been mandated by states to provide the access to contraception for years, without any backlash. So why are things different now?

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Obama's Birth Control Rule Will Hurt Homeless Veterans, Warns GOP Congressman

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 02.13.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), a leading Republican congressman overseeing veterans issues, is warning that President Obama's decision on bi...

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White House Attacks Rubio's 'Dangerous' Bill

AP | Posted 04.14.2012

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WASHINGTON — The White House said Monday legislation in the Senate that would give employers broad leeway to restrict coverage for contraception...

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Paul Ryan On Obama's 'Accounting Trick'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.12.2012

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The Obama administration's revised ruling on the contraception coverage that religious institutions must offer employees has not won over critics, des...

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Obama's Contraception Rule A Matter Of Life-Altering Care For Some

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.10.2012

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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The debate over President Barack Obama's new contraception-coverage rule has been largely been considered through the frame of rel...

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White House Defends Contentious Decision Amid Criticism

Posted 02.08.2012

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By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON--The Obama administration is willing to work with Catholic universities, hospitals and other church-affiliated emplo...

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Palin Speaks Out Against Obama, Contraception Rule

Posted 01.31.2012

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Sarah Palin gave her two cents Tuesday regarding a religiously-charged piece of the Affordable Care Act's contraception rule. On Jan. 20, the Obama...

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