Reproductive Rights

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A McCain Administration Would Set Women's Equality Back For Decades

Cristóbal Joshua Alex | Posted 10.02.2008 | Home

Read More: Abortion, Violence Against Women Act, Equality, Women's Rights, Violence Against Women, Reproductive Rights, Abortion Rights, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Vice Presidential Debate, Sarah Palin, Morning After Pill, John McCain, Equal Pay, Home News

It is hard to imagine an America where women are worse off than they are after eight years of George W. Bush - but a McCain/Palin victory will absolutely take things from bad to worse.

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Red State, Chapter One: Safe

Linda Hirshman | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Roe vs Wade, Reproductive Rights, Choice, America After Roe, Politics News

I was teaching my law students about the legal battles over the runaway slaves when I suddenly realized that this was what the world could be like if the Court overturned the abortion decision, and the states divided.

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McCain Would Undermind Development By Restricting Women's Access To Reproductive Health Programs

Jane Roberts | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home

Read More: Child Mortality, 2008 Elections, Women, John McCain, Reproductive Rights, United Nations, Maternal Health, Development Assistance, HIV/AIDS, Barack Obama, Women's Health, Millennium Development Goals, Health, Abstinence Education, Home News

John, when the world takes care of women, women take care of the world. The Bush Administration plays all kinds of games with women's access to reproductive health and family planning. You haven't shown me that you would be any better.

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A Culture of Violence Against Women: More Than Rape Kits

Amie Newman | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

There is good reason to hunt down the facts about the rape kits. But the larger issue - of rape, sexual assault and how we deal with violence against women in this country - has been overlooked.

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Women Leaders Hold Press Conference on the Presidential Election

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, John McCain, Violence Against Women, Paycheck Fairness Act, Reproductive Rights, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Joe Biden, Now, Pay Equity, Sarah Palin, Women's Rights, Sexism, The Prevention First Act, Feminist Majority, Security and Financial Empowerment Act, Hillary Clinton, Violence Against Women Act, Barack Obama 2008, Politics News

Washington - Top leaders from women's rights groups gathered to announce their support of the Barack Obama - Joe Biden ticket at an emotionally charg...

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Abortion Explosive; Clinton and Palin Should Find Common Ground

Virginia Bergman | Posted 09.08.2008 | Home

Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Hillary Clinton, Civil Rights, Reproductive Rights, Sarah Palin, Home News

If Hillary Clinton takes on Sarah Palin, we are in for an all out culture war over abortion and other heated social issues. Instead, local leaders should ignore the media and assist their communities in finding common ground where they might at least have a chance to resolve their differences.

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Dear Gov. Palin

David Goldstein | Posted 09.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Teen Pregnancy, Morning After Pill, Abortion, Birth Control, Reproductive Rights, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News

As a fellow parent I would hope that you would respect my belief that arrogant theocrats like you should stay the f**k out of our schools, and out of the private life of my child with your abstinence-only, Christianist voodoo.

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A Feminist Appalled by Palin

Sarah Seltzer | Posted 08.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, 2008 Campaign, Hillary Clinton 2008, Feminism, Reproductive Rights, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Reaction, Sarah Palin Vp, Sarah Palin Hillary Clinton Whiner, Mccain Palin Ticket, Feminists Against Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Vice President, Feminists Sarah Palin, Politics News

It's no rare thing for the right wing to use prominent women to keep the rest of us down. But just because Sarah Palin is a woman doesn't mean she's good for women. And female voters know that.

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MoveOn.org Urges Opposition to HHS Regulations Redefining Contraception as Abortion

Scott Swenson | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Hhs Contraceptives, Contraception, Hhs, Pro-Life, MoveOn.Org, Pro-Choice, Reproductive Rights, Reproductive Health, Politics News

The battle to protect Americans' rights to access contraception in good conscience, based on long-standing and widely accepted medical science, got a big boost from MoveOn.org.

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McCain's Pro-Life Record And Why Americans Assume He's Moderate

The New Republic | Sarah Blustain | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, John McCain, Pro-Life, Reproductive Rights, Abortion Rights, Politics News

John McCain was mad. Fuming mad. It was then the early days of his political career, and he had paid an unscheduled visit to a Planned Parenthood clin...

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Ludacris' Lyrics: Misogyny, Racism and The Reality of America

Amie Newman | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vice President, Presidential Election 2008, Reproductive Rights, RH Reality Check, Racism, Ludacris, Hillary Clinton, Pop Culture, Barack Obama, Politics News

Ludacris is repeating nothing that hasn't been said or acted out in a million different ways throughout history.These ideas are not a "a black, male thing."

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40 Years Later, an "Infallible" Ban on Modern Birth Control

Robert Engelman | Posted 07.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Population, Catholic Church, Birth Control Pill, Family Planning, Reproductive Rights, Contraception, Reproductive Health, Birth Control, Fertility, Sex, Living News

The Church's policy paradoxically has made it harder for people of every faith to use safe and effective contraception, especially if they are young, unmarried, and poor.

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George Bush Launches Attack on Access to Contraceptives

Jeff Merkley | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Health and Human Services, George Bush, Contraceptives, Google, Health, Reproductive Rights, Morning After Pill, Contraception, Politics News

By redefining abortion to include the most common and effective methods of birth control, the Bush administration is attempting to deprive basic contraceptive services to women around the country.

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De-Regulation and Choice

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Election Reproductive Rights, Reproductive Rights, Gender, Politics News

As a society, we're willing to immunize cheats, liars, war criminals, and law breakers, but prosecute any physician who acknowledges a woman's constitutional right to seek remedy from an unwanted pregnancy.

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For the First Time in My Life, I Might Not Vote

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Election and Abortion, Abortion, Reproductive Rights, Women Voters, 2008 Election, Voting, Barack Obama Abortion, Obama Abortion, Barack Obama Women's Vote, Politics News

Obama is walking a dangerous road -- especially with women Democratic voters -- by saying things about reproductive rights that make him look more Republican than John McCain.

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McCain's Record ... of Flip-Flops

Ira Forman | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Tax Cuts, Religious Right, John McCain, 2008 Election, Pro-Choice, Mccain Flip-Flop, Reproductive Rights, Offshore Drilling, Straight Talk Express, Politics News

The gall of McCain's 'straight talk' is breathtaking and the flip-flops here ought to finally put the myth of McCain's maverick moderate image to rest.

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Cashiers for Life

Cristina Page | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pharmacist Refusals, Birth Control, Conscience Objector, Anti-Contraception, Reproductive Rights, Will Saletan, Pharmacists for Life, Contraception, Pro-Life, Slate, Pro-Choice, Politics News

William Saletan, the Slate columnist whose made a career of claiming to be pro-choice while justifying attacks on reproductive rights, has had yet another epiphany.

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What Goes on Inside "McCain's Clinic"?

ZP Heller | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Roe v. Wade, Brave New Films, John McCain, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive Rights, Abortion Rights, John McCain Reproductive Rights, 2008 Election Reproductive Rights, Politics News

It's surprising that more women aren't backing Obama given McCain's abysmal reproductive rights record.

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Why Do Women Give McCain a Zero?

Robert Greenwald | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Roe v. Wade, Abortion, Women's Rights, Women, John McCain, Brave New Films, Naral, Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood, Pro-Choice, Politics News

We've created McCain's Clinic, a sneak peek at what a women's health clinic could look like if McCain were elected.

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Unmasking McCain: His Reactionary Record on Reproductive Rights

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Women, John McCain Abortion, Reproductive Rights, Women Voters, Abortion Rights, Planned Parenthood, Roe vs Wade, 2008 Election and Gender, Choice, Gender, Abortion Laws, Women's Health, Anti-Choice, Mitt Romney Abortion, John McCain Supreme Court, Naral, Naral Obama, Politics News

Many women who are avowed Hillary Clinton supporters are declaring they won't vote for Obama in the fall. I get the anger and the disappointment. But to quote SNL's Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers: Really?

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Swine Song

Cristina Page | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Family Research Council, Anti-Contraception, Reproductive Rights, Contraception, Religious Right, Planned Parenthood, Bush, Title X, Politics News

As the Bush presidency nears its end, the Christian Right is bellying up to the trough for a final feeding. They are hoping to get one more shot at their arch nemesis: the Planned Family.

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Pass It On: 75% of Pro-Choice Voters Need to Know the Truth -- John McCain Does Not Support a Woman's Right to Choose

Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain 2008, Planned Parenthood, Pro-Choice, Abortion, John McCain Against Abortion, John McCain Abortion, Abortion Rights, Reproductive Rights, Pro-Life, Roe vs Wade, 2008 Election Reproductive Rights, John McCain Roe vs Wade, 2008 Election, Sex Education, Emergency Contraception, 2008 Election and Abortion, 2008 Election and Reproductive Rights, John McCain Anti-Choice, Abortion Laws, Morning After Pill, Anti-Choice, John McCain Pro-Life, Politics News

McCain's record is really, really anti-choice. Not only anti-choice, but anti-sex ed, anti-emergency contraception, and anti-women.

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Late-Night Wins for Pro-Choice Americans

Nancy Keenan | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Wayne Allard, Fetus, Reproductive Rights, Pro-Choice Movement, Pro-Life, Pro-Lifers, Fetus SCHIP, Choice, Embryos, John Ensign, Child Custody Protection Act, Anti-Choice, Pro-Choice, Fetus Personhood, Schip, Politics News

Last night, the Senate rejected two anti-choice amendments, but the razor-thin margin by which we won these votes is a reminder of why elections matter.

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The McModerate

Cristina Page | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Contraception, Tom Coburn, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Reproductive Rights, John McCain Abortion, John McCain, John McCain Reproductive Rights, Abstinence, Pro-Lifers, 2008 Election, Sexuality, 2008 Election and Abortion, John McCain Tom Coburn, Abstinence Education, Anti-Choice, Condoms, Politics News

Iraq is not the only unpopular war Bush started that McCain hopes to continue. The war on Americans' sex lives is another and McCain has already proven himself a good, loyal general.

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The Best Candidate for Choice

Frances Kissling | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama Abortion, Abortion, Feminist, Reproductive Rights, Abortion Rights, Hyde Amendment, Hillary Clinton Abortion, Pro-Life, Roe vs Wade, 2008 Election Reproductive Rights, Barack Obama Endorsements, Feminism, 2008 Election, Sex Education, Abortion and Religion, Barack Obama, Emergency Contraception, 2008 Election and Abortion, Religion, Unfpa, Morning After Pill, Religion and Politics, Hillary Clinton, Anti-Choice, Global Gag Rule, Pro-Choice, Politics News

I fully expect that whichever of the two, Obama or Clinton, become president, I will be fighting with them for more on reproductive rights than either is ready to give.

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