Reproductive Rights

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Colorado county board renews decision to ban Plan B at health clinics

Debate characterized by anti-abortion anxiety and aversion to subsidized contraception
| 05.09.13 | 1:01 pm | View Article

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Colorado’s Weld County Board on Monday renewed a 2010 policy that prevented county health clinics funded by the federal Title X women’s health program from dispensing Plan B emergency contraception to their mostly young and low-income patients.

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In face of inaction on emergency-contraception access, Native women turn to their own plan b

| 01.29.13 | 10:00 am | View Article

“No, ma’am,” says the pharmacy tech over the phone at the Choctaw Nation’s health clinic in Hugo, Okla., when I ask if the clinic carries emergency contraception. More…

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In malpractice case, Catholic hospital argues fetuses aren’t people

John Tomasic | 01.24.13 | 11:59 am | The Colorado Independent | View Article

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Lori Stodghill was 31-years old, seven-months pregnant with twin boys and feeling sick when she arrived at St. Thomas More hospital in Cañon City on New Year’s Day 2006.

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Va. bill would remove abortion funding for women with totally incapacitated fetuses

| 01.16.13 | 12:38 pm | View Article

A proposal in the Virginia General Assembly to eliminate state funding for certain abortions could force some low-income women to carry to term a fetus with a low likelihood of survival. More…

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Texas abortion drug bill could mean more side effects and higher costs

| 12.20.12 | 1:08 pm | View Article

A GOP lawmaker is looking to make Texas the latest state to restrict the use of abortion medications in a way that some experts warn could increase the drugs’ side effects while making them more expensive. More…

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‘Abortion doesn’t unrape you’

Following election disaster, anti-abortion activists look to reframe discussion of rape
| 12.13.12 | 2:11 pm | View Article

After two GOP Senate candidates saw their campaigns implode when they made controversial comments about abortion and rape, Republicans like Sen. John McCain have been asking their party to just shut up about abortion More….

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Christian anti-abortion group sues government for taxpayer funding

| 11.30.12 | 9:01 am | View Article

Should taxpayer funds be used to help a “Christ centered ministry” buy and renovate a building in which it will offer Bible instruction and other services aimed at preventing abortion? More…

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Civil liberties groups decry church messaging at polling places

| 11.20.12 | 11:23 am | View Article

In South Saint Paul, Minn., on Election Day, residents showed up at St. John Vianney Catholic Church to vote and were greeted with a banner outside the polling place entrance that read, “Strengthen Marriage, Don’t Redefine It.” More…