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Earlier in his campaign, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney took a clear stand on the issue of contraception coverage by stating that he would support legislation that allowed all employers to refuse to cover employees' birth control for... Via Religulous, Gracie Passette 
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by ALLISON YARROW, The Daily Beast She’s faced bombings, protests, and legal attacks. Now, as a judge decides the fate of her abortion clinic—the last one in Mississippi—Diane Derzis reflects on her decades of work. Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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by ROBIN MARTY, RH Reality Check
Arizona Congressman Trent Franks' attempt to push a 20-week "fetal pain" abortion ban in Washington, D.C. (despite the fact that there is no science showing a fetus can feel pain at 20 weeks) is at best just another chance for the Republican to show off his anti-choice credentials and allow anti-choice House members to woo their supporters with their love of restrictions on women's reproductive health. At worst, it's an attempt to create a piece of legislation which, if it does become law, wouldprovide a direct track to the Supreme Court to challenge Roe V. Wade. There is no evidence for fetal pain in the second trimester of pregnancy, and fetuses are not viable at 20 weeks.
Either way, he's not intending to let his moment of glory be overshadowed, even if that means refusing to let D.C.'s actual Congressional representative speak on the bill.
[MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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by JESSICA VALENTI, Boston Magazine
Forty years after the Supreme Court settled it, we’re somehow having a birth control debate. Again. And Scott Brown’s political future could hang in the balance.
IF YOU’D ASKED American women a year ago about the most pressing concerns facing the country, they’d have given you a variety of responses: the economy, war, education. Some might have even mentioned reproductive rights. But I doubt a single one of them could have anticipated that in 2012 they’d be worrying about access to birth control. I mean, didn’t we settle all of that decades ago? [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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by JOAN WALSH, salon.com
The Tea Party tried to turn the group into the New Black Panther Party, and instead inspired an ongoing backlash
On Thursday I’ll be speaking at Planned Parenthood of Chicago’s annual gala, and I’m honored. (Tickets are available here.) I’ve always supported Planned Parenthood, but I think the group has helped change the political debate in this country in tangible ways over the last year or so, and I’m excited to talk about where we go from here.
We also have to thank the Tea Party, of course. My MSNBC colleague Chris Hayes joked on Monday that Tea Party extremists “thought they could turn Planned Parenthood into the New Black Panthers” – that Fox News boogeyman – but they were wrong. When they pushed to defund Planned Parenthood, they touched off a grass-roots uprising to defend not only the organization, but women’s health and freedom. It flared up again when Susan G. Komen defunded Planned Parenthood, and Komen had to reverse itself.
[MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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by LON NEWMAN, Family Planning Health Services via RH Reality Check
1. The teen birth rate is down.
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ANDREA MITCHELL, MSNBC NBC’s Andrea Mitchell talks with Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, about the latest piece of legislation out of Texas that would block funding for the state’s Planned Parenthood centers and would restrict women’s health care. [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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Stop Anti-Abortion Rights Teen Endangerment Act in Congress
TAKE ACTION NOW: Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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The ACLU won a round this week in its court challenge to a Kansas law passed during the 2011 legislative session. There are a few court challenges being waged in Kansas and the cost of these challenges continues to rise. ...
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Rachel Maddow reviews recent headlines of violence and intimidation at Planned Parenthood clinics in Wisconsin and traces the extremist anti-abortion, anti-contraception roots of unpopular Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. ...
[One reason why I love Rachel Maddow; she talks about issues that most do not.]
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by ALEX SEITZ-WALD, Think Progress
Defending her party after some of its members spent months going after contraception, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) said today that birth control isn’t very important to women. “Women don’t care about contraception,” she said on The View.
[Read the article.] Via Lynda Park
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While not a new concept, creative activism does seem to be having a "moment" right now as activists look for ways to draw attention to the recent attacks on our rights.
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The UN Commission on Population and Development is considering “sexual and reproductive health and rights” for children as young as ten. Even the Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon agrees. In a statement recently released he said, “Young people, as much as all people, share the human right to health, including sexual and reproductive health.”
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As Republicans shut down the vote on the proposal, Franson explained that she was “embarrassed” that contraception was even being talked about by the House. [MORE]
[Adults -- legislators, yet -- should be more embarrassed by being unable to discuss grown-up things.] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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by PETULA DVORAK, The Washington Post
Todd Stave, the landlord of a Germantown abortion clinic, has been the target of harassing phone calls and ugly fliers handed out to his neighbors. But he’s come up with a novel way to fight back. [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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This is just atrocious. Why would anyone want to punish women in such a way?
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by LAURA BASSETT, huffingtonpost.com
While women still earn 77 cents for every dollar that men make in the United States, the gender wage gap has closed significantly over the past several decades. Now, for the first time ever, a new study has connected the narrowing of that pay gap to increased access to birth control pills.
The University of Michigan study, which analyzed the careers of 4,300 women, shows that the earlier a woman can start taking birth control pills, the more likely she is to earn higher wages later in life.
[MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay, Deanna Dahlsad
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The fanatical fundamentalists are at it again. Not to be outdone by Catholic bishops clamoring for ever-increasing fetal protections, Flip Benham’s Operation Save America has teamed up with Go Stand Speak, LifeLink, Jeremiah Cry Ministries, Personhood USA, and Repent America to make five states—Arkansas, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming—abortion “refuges.”
\The five were chosen because each has just one reproductive health clinic. What’s more, the campaign to make these states abortion-free will link grassroots activism—raucous picketing, complete with billboard-sized pictures of bloody body parts--with a media crusade geared to maligning those who support freedom of choice.
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by ROBIN MARTY, RH Reality Check It's officially over. The Idaho House has announced that it will not be holding a hearing on the forced ultrasound bill before the session ends this week, meaning that the bill is officially dead for 2012.
[This article has been updated to add a response from Hannah Brass, Legislative Director of Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest.]
[MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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I Have a Say Collection: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1216892EE5FC2011&feature=mh_lolz - Hear Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood, tel...
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by THOMAS, Blog for Choice
While eyes were turned on the Supreme Court today, another front in the War on Women was being waged across the street.
The anti-choice leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives moved one step closer to passing yet another anti-choice attack.
The House Judiciary Committee today voted on the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CIANA), a.k.a. the "Arrest Grandma" Act.
[MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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Conscious Contraceptives Kicks off College Fundraising Competition to Improve ...SBWire (press release)“SIC is a collaboration of motivated students and alumni from several colleges across the country driven to advance global sexual health. Via Douglas Braun-Harvey, Deanna Dahlsad
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by ANDREA STONEA, huffingtonpost.com
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has released a new video featuring Gloria Steinem, in which the feminist icon argues that this election is a "turning point" and that women should grant Obama a second term if they want to see their rights protected.
[MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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