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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
Amie Newman

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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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
Amie Newman

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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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
Amie Newman

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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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
Amie Newman

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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Weekly Pulse: Mob Scene

The Media Consortium | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Lindsay Beyerstein, RH Reality Check, Gun, Weekly Pulse, Seiu, Reform, The Progressive, Riots, Town Hall, The Media Consortium, Protest, George Tiller, Talking Points Memo, Tmc, Tea Party, Alternet, Healthcare, In These Times, Politics News
The Media Consortium

Republicans and their allies are pressuring Democratic healthcare reformers at townhall meetings around the country. Addie Stan has a blockbuster piece in AlterNet that exposes the network behind the mobs.

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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
Amie Newman

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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Weekly Pulse: The Rocky Road to Reform

The Media Consortium | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lindsay Beyerstein, The Nation, RH Reality Check, Weekly Pulse, Dana Goldstein, Josh Holland, Mike Lillis, Salon, Ryan Grim, Washington Independent, John Nichols, The Media Consortium, MIchael Lind, The Prospect, Tmc, Alternet, Laura Miller, Politics News
The Media Consortium

Obama must have been disappointed when the non-partisan CBO announced last week that the Dem's healthcare bills won't cut spending, as he won't sign a bill that doesn't contain cost cuts.

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The Circle Continues: Dr. Carhart Takes On Tiller's Practice

Amie Newman | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: RH Reality Check, Abortion, Leroy Carhart, Partial Birth Abortion Ban, Reproductive Rights, Partial Birth Abortion, Dr. Tiller, Politics News
Amie Newman

Dr. Leroy Carhart, a physician who provides abortions for women in need and who for many years provided later term abortions in his home state of Nebr...

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Breast, Bottle and The Beauty of Motherhood

Amie Newman | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Birth, Breastfeeding, Reproductive Rights, RH Reality Check, Pregnancy, Maternity Care, Maternal Health, Benefits of Breastfeeding, Childbirth, Living News
Amie Newman

The real focus should be on creating the societal support necessary for mothers to experience new motherhood as optimally as possible. Do we offer adequate paid family leave for new moms?

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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
Amie Newman

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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Frames, Exceptions and Anti-Choice Aims Exposed

Amie Newman | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Last Debate, John McCain, National Right to Life Committee, Presidential Election 2008, Partial Birth Abortion, Reproductive Health, RH Reality Check, Election 2008, Presidential Debates, Born Alive, Final Debate, Barack Obama, Health, Right to Life, Politics News
Amie Newman

There is no public benefit to an endless back and forth about the morality of women's reproductive health decisions, when millions of women are faced with unintended pregnancies.

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McCain Undone By Affect And Temperament
McCain NewsLadder

The Media Consortium | Posted 11.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Taxes, Abortion, David Corn, Dana Goldstein, Joe the Plumber, Presidential Debate, John McCain, Don Hazen, Emily Douglas, Mother Jones, Laura Rozen, The Progressive, The Economy, Laura McClure, The Nation, #debate08, War and Piece, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Barack Obama, Alternet, RH Reality Check, Elizabeth Gettelman, Acorn, Ezra Klein, Ari Melber, Nick Baumann, Ruth Conniff, William Ayers, Final Presidential Debate, The American Prospect, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Jonathan Stein, Home News
The Media Consortium

Special Debate Edition In the much-anticipated final presidential debate of the 2008 campaign season, the man who landed the greatest number of punch...

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

Amie Newman | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

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

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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Is 'Choice' The Magic Bullet for Barack Obama?

Amie Newman | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Naral Pro-Choice America, Abortion, RH Reality Check, John McCain, Planned Parenthood, Barack Obama, Politics News
Amie Newman

The choice issue has real potential to move female voters to Barack Obama -- there is a clear cut distinction between him and McCain and women are now listening.

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