Posted on August 30th, 2010 by Health News
The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “Stem Cells, Politics and the Law,” Michael Tomasky, The Guardian’s “Michael Tomasky’s Blog”: The main issue in this week’s embryonic stem cell ruling is “the direct connection between a ruling like this … and the way the GOP plays politics in the U.S. Senate,” according to [...]
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Posted on August 30th, 2010 by Health News
In portraying a teenage character’s decision to have an abortion, the NBC show “Friday Night Lights” “tackled the very forces that have so effectively stifled discussion of abortion as a viable option for women, both on TV and real life,” Center for Reproductive Rights President Nancy Northup writes in an opinion piece in The Nation…
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Posted on August 27th, 2010 by Health News
This legislative session, Arizona lawmakers and Gov. Jan Brewer (R) enacted several laws that affect reproductive rights, including a measure that prohibits municipalities from offering abortion coverage in their health insurance plans, the Arizona Republic reports. The laws took effect July 29…
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Posted on August 27th, 2010 by Health News
The following summarizes selected women’s health related videos. NARAL Official Discusses AG Opinion:MSNBC host Rachel Maddow explained a legal opinion from Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) arguing that abortion clinics should be regulated as surgery centers, which would force them to make structural changes, obtain hospital admitting privileges and meet other requirements…
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Posted on August 25th, 2010 by Health News
The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries…
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Posted on August 19th, 2010 by Health News
Restrictions on abortion coverage under the federal health reform law (PL 111-148) could further marginalize immigrant and poor women’s access to reproductive care and legal abortion, ABC News reports…
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Posted on August 12th, 2010 by Health News
Since Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner took office in 2007, her administration has eroded protections for reproductive rights, including a reversal of the government’s intention to guarantee access to legal abortion services, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch, the New York Times reports…
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Posted on August 11th, 2010 by Health News
Abortion rights have become a critical issue in Georgia’s GOP gubernatorial primary between former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel — a “relatively centrist Republican” — and former U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal, a more conservative candidate, the Wall Street Journal reports. Handel leads by five percentage points in the polls heading into today’s primary…
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Posted on August 10th, 2010 by Health News
The following summarizes selected women’s health related videos. Exposing Unsafe Abortion in the Philippines: A video from the Center for Reproductive Rights tells the consequences of the Philippines’ absolute abortion ban through the story of a woman who has had two illegal abortions and 10 pregnancies…
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Posted on August 6th, 2010 by Health News
The following summarizes selected women’s health related videos. Exposing Unsafe Abortion in the Philippines: A video from the Center for Reproductive Rights tells the consequences of the Philippines’ absolute abortion ban through the story of a woman who has had two illegal abortions and ten pregnancies…
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