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  • #yourbodyisabattleground

    Pregnant Servicewomen Now Face Jail Time

    In what may be the worst military reproductive rights policy yet (and there's a lot of competition), one general has decided that soldiers under his command can be court-martialed and jailed for getting pregnant. More »
    12/21/09
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    By Anna N.
  • #breastintentions

    Blindfolded By A Pink Ribbon? Barbara Ehrenreich On Mammograms, Breast Cancer

    Barbara Ehrenreich asks, "has feminism been replaced by the pink-ribbon breast cancer cult?" In other words, are women so concerned with access to mammograms that they're ignoring science and even their own rights? More »
    12/02/09
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    By Anna N.
  • #bookreviews

    "Palinizing" Prejean, Prejeanizing Palin: Two Conservative Women Look Out For #1

    Carrie Prejean has complained of being "Palinized" — that is, discriminated against because she's a conservative woman — but she and Sarah Palin have more in common than just a victim complex. More »
    11/18/09
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    By Anna N.
  • #healthnuts

    Health Care Bill Is Still Full Of Drama

    It's been ten days since the announcement of the Stupak-Pitts amendment, and health care reform hasn't been the same. News bites, including the Massachusetts senate race, circumventing a filibuster, and how the Wall Street Journal got it wrong after the jump. More »
    11/17/09
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    By LatoyaPeterson
  • #snapjudgment

    Dirty Diana

    [Washington, D.C., November 5. Image via Getty]

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    11/05/09
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    By Anna
  • #feminisms

    Three Feminists On Dirty Words, Pop Culture, And The Language Of Choice

    Yesterday the Planned Parenthood NYC Action Fund brought together Jessica Valenti of Feministing, Lynn Harris of Broadsheet, and longtime reproductive rights activist and writer Gloria Feldt to discuss everything from feminist pop culture to whether "feminism" is a dirty word. More »
    11/05/09
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    By Anna N.
  • #healthnuts

    Anti-Choice Democrats Hold Up Healthcare Bill

    House Democrats are pretty much ready to get started debating the monster healthcare reform bill, except for those conservatives who are trying to seize the opportunity to block more women's access to abortion. More »
    11/05/09
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    By Kate Harding
  • #roevsworld

    Illinois Votes To Enforce Parental Notification Laws While Pro-Choice Nun Suspends Activism

    Illinois's Medical Disciplinary Board has voted to start enforcing a law that requires doctors to give the parents or guardians of girls 17 or younger 48 hours' notice before providing them with abortions. More »
    11/04/09
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    By Kate Harding
  • #roevworld

    Ova Are People, Too

    Colorado anti-choicers are redefining personhood yet again. Life no longer starts at fertilization, but at "the beginning of the biological development of a human being." If so, say goodbye to in-vitro fertilization, stem cell research, and bodily autonomy! [Colorado Independent]
    10/29/09
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    By Kate Harding
  • #unkindcuts

    Is A Forced C-Section Comparable To Rape?

    Ever since women fought against twilight sleep being used in hospitals, questions about giving birth and what practices are helpful or harmful has captivated public conversation. A growing movement hopes to draw attention to the overuse of Caesarean procedures. More »
    10/19/09
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    By LatoyaPeterson
  • #thetwits

    What About The Miscarriage Penelope Trunk Didn't Tweet?

    Just when you thought Penelope Trunk's tweeted miscarriage was old news, along comes Kathleen Parker, raising her voice yet again on behalf of women who can't stand other women. More »
    10/07/09
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    By Kate Harding
  • #ohbaby

    Guttmacher Institute: Recession Cures Baby Fever

    A recent survey by the Guttmacher Institute found that nearly half of the American women who responded wish to delay childbearing until the economy improves. Unfortunately, many are also skipping birth control and routine gynecological care to save money. More »
    09/23/09
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    By Kate Harding
  • #jezenomics

    Who Is Enriching Himself In The Abortion Debate?

    Well-known tool Tucker Carlson is really upset that doctors who perform abortions are charging for their services! He calls it "enriching" themselves. I call it being hypocritical and disingenuous, like most of the right-wing on this issue. More »
    07/29/09
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    By Megan
  • #roevsworld

    How The Anti-Abortion Movement Demonized George Tiller

    Yesterday, David Barstow, in a front page story in the New York Times, provided one of the most thorough reviews as to how, for 30 years, the anti-abortion movement defined, demonized, harassed - and eventually killed - Ob/Gyn George Tiller. More »
    07/27/09
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    By Megan
  • #conversationallyspeaking

    Awesome, Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg Explains It All To You

    Emily Bazelon got the chance to do something many of us would like to — sit down and talk to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (for the upcoming issue of the NY Times Magazine). Pure awesomeness, naturally, followed. More »
    07/08/09
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    By Megan
  • #reproductiverights

    Australian Doctors Fear Prosecution For RU486

    The upcoming trial of a 19-year-old Australian girl charged with procuring her own miscarriage has lead obstetrician Caroline De Costa to advise doctors to stop prescribing "non-surgical abortions" because of the legal loophole responsible for this sorry case. [News.com.au]
    07/08/09
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    By Intern Katy
  • #roevsworld

    Operation Rescue Goes Predictably Negative, Crazy On Sotomayor

    In a Photoshop job that, were it about a child, might cause Sarah Palin to resign yet again, Operation Rescue's Randall Terry is calling for the defeat of Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court — and he's not alone. More »
    07/07/09
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    By Megan
  • #roevsworld

    Steven Waldman Thinks We Should Pay Women To Carry Their Unplanned Pregnancies To Term

    Several readers wrote in today to tip us to a video of Beliefnet's Steven Waldman and Slate's William Saletan discussing the idea of paying pregnant women to carry their babies to term in order to give them up for adoption. More »
    06/27/09
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    By hortense
  • #roevsworld

    Perpetually Annoying Slate Writer Sez Calling It A Fetus Might Lead To Infanticide

    Wow: William Saletan at Slate thinks that pregnant, abortion-loving women had better think twice about calling a fetus anything other than "a baby," or else they "might" end up offing their kids. More »
    06/18/09
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    By Megan
  • #roevsworld

    Some People Underestimate The Economic Impact Of Abortion

    President Obama plans to bring together pro- and anti-choice advocates by focusing on what we can do to reduce the need for abortion. Two stories this week illustrate the need for that, and why some people remain blind to it. More »
    06/17/09
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    By Megan
  • #dontdouthat

    Op-Ed Writer: Pro-Choicers Have George Tiller's Blood On Their Hands

    I'm starting to suspect that the New York Times is giving increasingly ill-considered and poorly written conservatives column space in an effort to undermine the idea that Republican ideology has any intellectual validity. More »
    06/09/09
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    By Megan
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