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Catholic Extremists Swiftboat Sebelius

Cristina Page | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

The Catholic Church may refer to pro-choice politicians as extremists but the majority of Catholic congregants agree with pro-choice politicians like Sebelius on reproductive issues.

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Obama May Overturn Bush 'Conscience Rule' On Abortions

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Bush Right of Conscience Rule, Conscience Rule, Obama Abortion, Bush Abortion, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to repeal a Bush administration rule that has become a flash point in the debate over a doctor's right...

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"Pro-Life" Movement Admits Pro-Abortion Stance

Cristina Page | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Troy Newman, Family Research Council, Birth Control, Family Planning, Anti-Abortion, Contraception, Operation-Rescue, Pro-Life, Tony Perkins, Pro-Choice, Guttmacher, Politics News

The so-called anti-abortion movement refuses to admit that its long held political and fundraising habits have worked too well to now be abandoned, and so continues to resist common sense.

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Redefining the Question of Choice

Lindsey Horvath | Posted 03.26.2009 | Living

Read More: California Octuplets, Nadya Suleman, Anti-Choice, Pro-Choice, Suleman Octuplets, Octuplets, Women's Rights, Women's Health, Suleman, Living News

In order to truly create a "pro-life" society, we must be willing to support the children who are born into it.

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Backsliding on Roe

Caryl Rivers | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Family Planning, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Cancer, Abortion Rights, Roe v. Wade, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Pro-Life, Roe vs Wade, Pro-Lifers, Pro-Choice, Politics News

Roe is going to need all the support that can be mustered, because the departure of the Bush administration may bring the extreme factions in the pro-life movement to the fore.

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Seriously Seeking Common Ground

Cristina Page | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pregnant Women Support Act, Senator Casey, Pro-Life, Common Ground, Pro-Choice, Unwanted Pregnancy, realabortionsolutions.org, Catholics United, President Obama, Politics News

The Pregnant Women Support Act offers some proposals that both sides can endorse. And there may well be solutions for the problematic areas, assuming there really is good will.

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Obama's Latest Feat -- Bridging the Pro-Choice/Pro-Life Divide?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pro-Life, Abortion, Phil Bronstein, Pro-Choice, San Francisco, Barack Obama, Politics, Politics News

The ongoing celebration of Barack Obama's existence on earth has spawned another miracle -- he has brought together two formerly unrelenting foes: the pro-Lifers and pro-Choicers.

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Why Pro-Life Obama Supporters Should Be Disappointed

Steven Waldman | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Mexico City Policy, Obama, Global Gag Rule, Gag Rule, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Family Planning, Women's Health, 100 Days, President Obama, Birth Control, Obama Abortion, Barack Obama, Politics News

Obama's pro-life supporters are claiming to be pleased that he at least waited a day before reportedly repealing the Mexico City "gag rule." If I were them, I'd be disappointed.

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First Ladies: Character to Caricature, Part One

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton First Lady, First Ladies, Women, White House, Michelle Obama First Lady, Michelle Obama, Nellie Taft, Tom Delay, Rosalyn Carter, Eleanor Roosevelt, Burma, Joe Mccarthy, Dick Cheney, Bush Women's Health, Laura Bush, First Lady, Clinton First Lady, Women's Health, Heart Attack Warning, Saudi Arabia, Women and Politics, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Bush, Heart Disease, Pro-Choice, Vice President Cheney, Pat Nixon, Mamie Eisenhower Hillary Clinton, Nancy Reagan, Politics News

Scanning Michelle Obama's post-election coverage makes it seem that the importance of being First Lady is about sleeveless dresses and puppy breeds. It isn't.

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Notes from a "Pro-Abortionist"

Jenna Henry Hansen | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Abortion, Abortion Global Gag Rule, Women's Rights, Women, Obama's Inauguration, Ronald Reagan, Gag Rule, Women's Issues, Feminist, Obama Inauguration, Abortion Rights, Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama Inauguration, Pro-Life, Pro-Lifers, Feminism, Barack Obama, Hyde Amendment, Midnight Regulations, Abortion Laws, Martin Luther King, Bush Last Minute Rules, Women's Health, Women and Politics, Midnight Regulation, Global Gag Rule, Abortion Gag Rule, Pro-Choice, Bush Midnight Regulations, Politics News

Although "feminist" and "pro-choice" are not interchangeable, I know many women that are "accused" of being a feminist and/or pro-abortion just for speaking up.

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Bush, Our Ex-Boyfriend

Cristina Page | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birth Control, Family Planning, Midnight Regulations, Conscience Objector, Leavitt, Contraception, Anti-Choice, Religious Objection, Hhs, Nfprha, Planned Parenthood, Aclu, Pro-Choice, Bush, George Bush, Politics News

Bush is the ex-boyfriend we've finally gotten out of our life only to discover he left an unpleasant souvenir, like an STD. A particularly nasty strain too, in the form of new HHS regulations.

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At Last, Prevention First

Cristina Page | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Family Planning, Birth Control, Prevention First, Abstinence Only, Diana DeGette, Harry Reid, Contraception, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Sex Education, Louise Slaugter, Politics News

Medical experts continually warned us during the Bush years that the abstinence-only approach would sow the seeds of ignorance in teenagers. Those seeds are finally bearing fruit.

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26 Reasons Pro-Choice People Should Be Happy

Nancy Keenan | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: 111th Congress, Roe v Wade, Reproductive Rights, Abstinence-Only Programs, President-Elect Obama, Global Gag Rule, Pro-Choice, Sex Education, Politics News

Relish the feeling of hope and accomplishment that comes as every new pro-choice member of Congress recites his or her oath of office today.

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The Dissembler

Cristina Page | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Family Planning, Birth Control, Unfpa, Population Research Institute, Reproductive Rights, Steven Mosher, Contraception, United Nations, Pro-Life, UN Population Fund, Pro-Choice, Christian Fundamentalism, Politics News

Hopefully, with the arrival of the Obama administration, Steven Mosher's ability to force his extremist views on the rest of the world will soon be over.

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Can Common Ground Prevail?

Cristina Page | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Contraception, Pro-Life, Common Ground, Pro-Choice, Pregnancy Prevention, Abortion Rights, Obama Abortion, Choice, Politics News

After decades of resistance, some in the pro-life movement are stepping forward in support of pro-choice goals, even if that means jeopardizing their standing in the established pro-life community.

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W's Parting Gifts to Women

Martha Burk | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics

It's not new that outgoing Presidents try to change national policy at the last minute through rule changes. But W is set to set a record.

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The Pro-Lie Movement Targets Hillary

Cristina Page | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Family Planning, Americans for UNFPA, Unfpa, Population Research Institute, Susan B. Anthony List, Contraception, Hillary Clinton, Pro-Life, Un, Pro-Choice, Barack Obama, Obama Cabinet, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News

Defamation is a tool of the anti-choice establishment -- the "Susan B. Anthony List" claims Clinton, as Secretary of State, will "promote abortion" around the world.

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Will Tom Daschle Be What The Reproductive Rights Community Wants?

Amie Newman | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Reproductive Rights, Roe v. Wade, Tom Daschle, RH Reality Check, Election 2008, Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Barack Obama, Sex Education, President Elect Obama, Obama HIV/AIDS Policy, Sexual and Reproductive Rights, HIV/AIDS Pandemic, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Daschle Health and Human Services, Bush Administration Sex Education, Pro-Choice, Bush Administrations Sexual and Reproductive Rights, Politics News

The former S. Dakota senator may please some inside-the-Beltway Democrats, but the reaction of reproductive and sexual health advocates working on the ground will be interesting to gauge.

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The Obamagelical Reformation

Cristina Page | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Evangelical, Born-Again, Barack Obama, Abstinence-Only, Contraception, Catholic, Pro-Life, Christian, Pro-Choice, Politics News

The 2008 election may mark the moment religious voters put reason above rhetoric. The birth of the Obamagelical.

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Catholics Vote for Women's Health

Cecile Richards | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

In a poll commissioned by Planned Parenthood, Catholic voters' number-one response on family planning concerns were "too many unwanted children in America whose parents can't take care of them."

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Mock the Vote

Cristina Page | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birth Control, Prevention First, President Obama, Pro-Life, South Dakota Abortion Ban, Population Research Institute, Contraception, Personhood USA, Obama, Amendment 48, Pro-Choice, Politics News

In this election, record numbers of Catholics and young Evangelicals voted in unexpected ways. Rather than induce reflection in staunch pro-life groups, they have instead reacted with denial and yet more extremism.

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Abortion Politics Isn't Saving Lives

John W. Whitehead | Posted 12.08.2008 | Living

Read More: 2008 Election and Abortion, Abortion, Pro-Life, Abortion Laws, Pro-Choice, Roe v. Wade, Abortion Rights, Health, Living News

Some sobering statistics: every year, more than a million pregnancies end in abortion; roughly one-third of all women in the U.S. will have an abortion during their reproductive lifetime.

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Pro-Choice Victories in the 2008 Election

Nancy Keenan | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mark Udall, Martin Heinrich, Naral Pro-Choice America, Election 2008 Coverage, Ed Tinsley, Gerry Connolly, President-Elect Obama, Jeanne Shaheen, Tom Udall New Mexico, Elizabeth Dole, Pro-Choice, Gary Peters, Mark Schauer, President Obama, Obama Election Day, HuffPost Election Analysis, Election Day, Sarah Palin, HuffPost Election Reaction, Obama Presidency, Obama President, Election Analysis, John McCain, Obama Wins, Election Day 2008, Election Results, Joe Biden, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Election, Presidential Results, Election Reaction, Presidential Election, Politics News

Last night, while standing just a few feet from the podium from which our next pro-choice president spoke, I was overcome with pride and emotion.

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A Winning Night for Women

Cecile Richards | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

It is hard to overstate the landslide victory for women last night. For too long, our health and rights have been used as a political battering ram.

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Mondale's Revenge

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Abortion, Walter Mondale, Politics, John McCain, Environment, Border Wall, Socialism, Election 2008, Pro-Choice, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Fear and Courage in the Democratic Party, Obama Election Day, HuffPost Election Analysis, Election Day, Election Liveblogs, HuffPost Election Reaction, Obama Presidency, Electoral College, Obama President, Electoral Vote, Election Analysis, Voting, Election Day 2008, Joe Biden, Election Results, 2008 Election, Election, Electoral Map, HuffPost Election Liveblogs, Voting Day, Election Reaction, Electoral Votes, Presidential Election, Politics News

To be sure, the failing economy provided Democrats the context they needed. But a candidate with a little backbone gave them the ability to convince voters to take a chance on change.

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