Reproductive Rights

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To Induce Or Not To Induce - Is That The Question?

Amie Newman | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: RH Reality Check, Pregnancy, Women, Midwifery, Natural Childbirth, Reproductive Rights, Childbirth, Living News

Are there "good" reasons for inducing labor through medical intervention? It's a loaded question for which different providers may give you different answers.

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Conservative Catholic College Rejects Birth Control

Reproductive Justice | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Abortion, Walmart, Conscience Clause, Belmont Abbey College, Gender Discrimination, Reproductive Rights, Religious Freedom, Reproductive Health, Contraception, Birth Control, Anti-Choice, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Health Care, Religion, Living News

Belmont Abbey College argued in court that it was a secular institution in order to receive state funds, but then removed birth control from its employee health care plan. Their reason? The Catholic Church.

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Am I Angrier at Bart Stupak or Barack Obama?

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Bart Stupak, Contraception, Reproductive Rights, Abortion Rights, Barack Obama, President Obama, Politics News

I was more worried about Justices Scalia and Thomas, and now it turns out I should have been focusing on some Congressman from Michigan. The short, non-wonky version of where we are? We're screwed.

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The New Scarlet Letter -- A is for Abortion

Linda Bergthold | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, House Health Reform Bill, HR 3962, Reproductive Rights, Stupak Amendment, Hyde Amendment, Pregnancy, Contraception, Health Reform, Politics News

The Stupak-Pitts amendment takes me back to the days when abortion was not legal and the shame of an abortion was very much like wearing a big red letter A on your forehead.

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Reproductive Health Care Providers Deserve Our Protection

Sam Hoyt | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Abortion, George Tiller, Human Rights, Abortion Clinics, Reproductive Rights, Abortion Rights, New York News

While Dr. Tiller's work and his unflappable defense of a woman's right to choose abortion was extremely high profile, many physicians and abortion center staff face serious harassment.

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A Lesson for Barack Obama From the Harold Washington Playbook

Rebecca Sive | Posted 11.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Declaration of Independence, Auto Bailout, Wall Street, Reproductive Rights, Election Night 2009, Harold Washington, Community Organizing, China, Barack Obama, New Jersey Governor's Race, Virginia Governor's Race, South Side of Chicago, Health Care Reform, Chicago News

Chicago Mayor Harold Washington never did move away from his people; he stuck with them; he delivered for them. The result: They stuck with him.

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New York Voters Send Right Wing Packing in 23rd Congressional District

M. Tracey Brooks | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Family Planning, Dede Scozzafava, Reproductive Rights, Bill Owens, Right Wing, Ny-23, Doug Hoffman, Planned Parenthood, New York News

The GOP failed to back its own candidate and allowed outside influences such as the Conservative Party and the Club for Growth to hijack the election. This is not good for the GOP or for women.

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Former Planned Parenthood Director's Holes In Story Revealed In Recent Radio Interview

Amie Newman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, RH Reality Check, Birth Control, 40 Days for Life, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive Rights, Politics News

How did Ms. Johnson become the director of a Planned Parenthood center that provides abortions up to 14 weeks without having seen an ultrasound image?

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Listen Up Obama: The HIV/AIDS Virus Has Moved South

Reproductive Justice | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Reproductive Health, Abstinence Only, Reproductive Rights, Abstinence Only Debate, AIDs Epidemic, Politics News

South Carolina, like a number of states in the Southeastern region, is being devastated by a silent enemy that hasn't attracted a lot of media attention lately: HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

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I Am Not a Pre-Existing Condition

Amie Newman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: C-Sections, Women's Rights, Senate, Reproductive Rights, RH Reality Check, Health Care Reform, Pregnancy, Domestic Violence, Politics of Birth, Childbirth, Inside DC, Politics News

Is the fact that women experience gender discrimination in health care even debatable? Many insurance companies even regard a C-section as a pre-existing condition. This must stop.

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Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining Our Future

Joyce McFadden | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Reproductive Health, Obama, Backlash, Living News, Feminism, Reproductive Rights, Sexism, Media News

While reading Barbara Berg's Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining our Future, I felt energized and eager to be a part of this third wave of feminism.

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In Labor, In Chains

Reproductive Justice | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights, Shackling-Pregnant-Inmates, Arkansas Department of Corrections, In Labor in Chains, Shackling, Politics News

Most mothers behind bars are restrained during labor, delivery and post-delivery as a matter of routine practice in our nation's jails and prisons.

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Addressing Global Warming: Give Women Reproductive Choice

Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Health Care Reform, Bearing Witness 2.0, Climate Change, Copenhagen 2009, Health Care, Reproductive Rights, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases, Sir David Attenborough, Green News

Increasing population pressure in many nations is destroying, directly or indirectly, vitally important carbon storage systems on our planet.

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Birth Control Could Help Developing World Combat Climate Change

AP | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

Read More: Population, Population Growth, Reproduction, Reproductive Rights, World's Population, Third World, Climate Change, Birth Control Pill, Sexual Rights, High Population, Birth Control, Contraceptives, Developing World, Condoms, Global Warming, World News

LONDON — Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, experts said Frid...

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What's So Scary About Home Birth?

Amie Newman | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, Out-of-Hospital-Birth, Natural Childbirth, Reproductive Rights, RH Reality Check, Women's Health, Reproductive Health, Motherhood, Home Birth, Midwifery, Childbirth, Cpms, Cnms, Living News

The Today Show presents homebirth as an option to be feared, but that's only because the unknown is often a scary venture. If you listen to women's experiences, It doesn't have to be that way.

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Baucus May Have Solved the Abortion-Health Care Riddle

Steven Waldman | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Abortion, Max Baucus, Reproductive Rights, Health Care Abortion, Politics News

Bishops say they would gladly support health care reform if only they could be assured it doesn't cover abortion. We may soon see if that's true.

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A Different Kind of Gag: Europe's Reproductive Health Fatigue

Gauri van Gulik | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: Europe Attitude to Women's Rights, Reproductive Health, Women's Rights, EU Women's Rights, Human Rights Watch, Reproductive Rights, World News

The family planning debate affects people far from the halls of Brussels -- people like Lisa, who was raped by a family member then told to by a local "doctor" to swallow acid and rub it all over her genital area.

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Abortion and Health Care Reform: A Common Ground Solution?

Chris Korzen | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Health Care Reform, Capps Amendment, Abortion Health Care Reform, Reproductive Rights, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News

Both sides of the abortion debate supported health care reform that preserved current policies for federal support. But how do we define abortion neutrality where federal precedent doesn't exist?

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World Breastfeeding Week: Breastfeeding Is a Feminist Issue

Amie Newman | Posted 09.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, RH Reality Check, Feminism, Breastfeeding, Reproductive Rights, Women's Rights, Newborns, Parenting, Living News

Breastfeeding is not simply a "choice" women make. It is a decision women make based on a tremendous variety of social and medical factors.

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Women Need a Plan B

Kelli Conlin | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Emergency Contraception, Reproductive Health, Plan B, Birth Control, Naral, Reproductive Rights, Health, Politics News

Heightened awareness is critical to increasing use of Plan B: a safe, effective back up method of birth control. Nearly 40 percent of women 18-30 remain unaware of this valuable medication.

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The Catholic Church Vs. The Women of Brazil

Vicky Shorr | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

Read More: Catholic Church, Archbishop of Recife, Brazil, Reproductive Rights, Brazilian Women, Reproductive Health, Cytotec, World News

The Church in Brazil is manned by the likes of the Archbishop of Recife, whose latest idea of social activism was to ex-communicate the mother of a nine-year-old rape victim, who got the child an abortion.

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Finding Optimism on World Population Day

Carol Peasley | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

Read More: Population, Women's Rights, Michelle Goldberg, Reproductive Health, Unfpa, Women's Health, Reproductive Rights, World News

The early international family planning movement was dominated by "population control" advocates who too often forgot that women should be at the center of their thinking.

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Bringing Women's Stories Into The Abortion Debate, Part 2

Huffington Post | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Abortion, Women, Health, Reproductive Rights, Women's Health, Reproductive Health, Wellness, Living News

A while back, we asked women to tell us about their experiences getting an abortion. We'd like to thank everyone who contributed for their honesty. ...

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O'Reilly Rages Against Joan Walsh Over Tiller Murder (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.14.2009 | Media

Joan Walsh went on the O'Reilly Factor Friday night having publicly vowed to be well-prepared to defend the reproductive rights of women and the legality of Dr. Tiller's clinical practice, and truly doled out some major ownage.

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