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Health Care Reformers: Don't Forget Women
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Recently I saw a pregnant woman I will call Lillian, a 22-year-old who brought her two children with her to the ER. Lillian has a full-time job whose health insurance doesn't cover pregnancy. She... More
Submitted 7 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |
Pregnant Women and Mothers Deserve Better
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In the aftermath of Dr. George Tiller's murder many people have asked whether anti-abortion rhetoric constitutes "hate speech" or an "incitement to terrorism." This rhetoric includes language... More
Submitted 7 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |
In North Carolina, taxpayers are paying teenage girls to avoid pregnancy -- The ITT List
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Many drastic measures have been taken all over the world to prevent teen pregnancy through the years, from viral video scare tactics in the U.K. to abstinence camps in Guyana. But instead of fancy... More
Submitted 8 months ago by saramediaconsortium | 0 Comments |
Crisis of Deception: Fake Clinics Spread Misinformation on the Federal Dime | RHRealityCheck.org
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This special report on Crisis Pregnancy Centers is a joint project of RH Reality Check, the Feminist Majority Foundation and Stuart Productions. A must-watch video accompanies this story, and can be... More
Submitted 8 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |
Is it a boy, a girl ... or a hoax?
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Are you a mom-to-be who just can't wait till the 20-week sonogram to know your fetus' sex? Well, has CNN got the product for you! One of the site's top-rated stories of the day introduces us to the... More
Submitted 9 months ago by HealthcareNewsLadder | 0 Comments |
Preventive reproductive health care pays off
(coloradoindependent.com)
By Emilie Ailts This year is the 55th birthday of the birth control pill. It is also 44 years since the U.S. Supreme Court decriminalized birth control in Griswold v. Connecticut. Yet, debates over... More
Submitted 12 months ago by HealthcareNewsLadder | 0 Comments |
Bristol Palin Stammers the Truth
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Rebecca Traister Feb. 18, 2009 | All over the news on Tuesday were clips of 18-year-old new mother Bristol Palin stuttering awkwardly in an interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren and saying... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by HealthcareNewsLadder | 0 Comments |
Fight Of Our Lives: UNICEF Uncovers The State of Maternal Mortality
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Childbirth and pregnancy are extremely dangerous endeavors for the women of the world but most especially for women in developing nations and even more especially for teen girls in developing nations.
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Past Time for Change: Women's Rights Are Human Rights
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On its sixtieth anniversary, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights is still a distant dream for most of the world's girls and women. One in every three women in the world experiences violence in... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
The real life accompaniment to Baby Mama
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From the Sunday New York Times, Alex Kuczynski tells her own version of Baby Mama. She opted for surrogacy after years of infertility and failed pregnancies and IVF attempts. At 31 weeks, my... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |

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