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Clarence Page: Women's reproductive rights under threat in 2012
The Republican presidential candidates all support chipping away at women's access to reproductive health services.
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Komen reversal illustrates political battle over Planned Parenthood
A weeklong firestorm over the Susan G. Komen foundation's decision to cut off -- and, on Friday, restore -- a grant to Planned Parenthood marked one of the high points in political battle targeting the finances of the nationwide network of reproductive health clinics.
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Lon Newman: Bishops’ demands on contraception coverage raise troubling issues
The U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops (USCCB) is incensed at the decision by the Obama administration to guarantee that the preventive health care benefit package in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes contraceptive care. In a USCCB video, Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, the former archbishop of Milwaukee, wags an index finger as he invokes religious freedom protected by the “very first ...
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Longer looks: Enhanced scrutiny of IVF clinics; School-based health care
Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich hit upon a reproductive minefield on Sunday when he called for deeper scrutiny of in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics, where women go for high-tech help to conceive.
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“To Stop the Multiplication of the Unfit”
If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.
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Connecticut Susan G. Komen Foundation Will Not Pull Planned Parenthood Funding
NEW HAVEN – As public outcry over the Susan G. Komen for a Cure Foundation’s decision to cut off breast cancer funding to Planned Parenthood escalates, the Connecticut branch of Komen vowed not to pull its funding.
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Funding losses prompt Family Planning changes
TWISP — Okanogan Family Planning — serving a county with some of the state’s highest teenage pregnancy rates — has worked out a deal with its counterpart in Wenatchee to prevent an outreach clinic in Twisp from closing. On Feb. 1, Family Planning Association of Chelan-Douglas Counties took over the administration and management of reproductive health services offered at Room One, a Twisp ...
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Komen Reversal a Victory for Latina Fight Against Breast Cancer
Perspective: By Jessica González-Rojas New America Media When I was 16, a health educator came to my high-school gym class, corralled the girls in the locker room and talked about breast health. My experience that day proved fateful for me, and those memories came back this week with the unsettling news that the Susan G. [...]
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America's pro-choice majority | Amy Goodman
The US doesn't need a new 'culture war' that will only benefit Republicans like Rick Santorum. Most Americans are pro-choice The leadership of the Catholic Church has launched what amounts to a holy war against President Barack Obama . Archbishop Timothy Dolan appealed to church members : "Let your elected leaders know that you want religious liberty and rights of conscience restored and that ...
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Public health clinic hours modified with opening of 2 new clinics
FLORENCE — Hours and days of service at some Pinal County health clinics will be changing, effective Feb. 1, to accommodate the staffing of two new public health clinics while only hiring limited additional staff.
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