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When I spotted the cover of the Fifty Shades magazine leering at me from it’s in-your-face product positioning in the check-out lane at a local grocery store, I immediately broke... 
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by ROBIN MARTY, RH Reality Check
Minnesota Republicans are jumping on the anti-choice bandwagon and have passed two new bills designed to add more burdensome regulation on abortion providers.
The Republican dominated House voted overwhelmingly to make it a felony to dispense RU-486 without a doctor in the room, and that the doctor must be present when it is ingested as well.
The new regulations on RU-486 are in reaction to a new clinic in Rochester that was providing "telemed" abortions to other clinics in more remote areas of the state that did not have available abortion providers. If the bill becomes law, the felony charges would cut off most rural women from being able to obtain an abortion without being forced to travel to one of the large metro areas to find a provider.
[MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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by JESSICA ROBINSON, OPB News
An Idaho woman arrested for inducing her own abortion is taking her case to federal court. Jennie Linn McCormack was charged last year under an obscure Idaho law for ending her pregnancy with RU-486. She joins an increasing number of women who get the so-called abortion pill off the internet. [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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"Far more than other adoption agencies, conservative Christian agencies demonstrate a pattern and history of coercing women to relinquish their children."...
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Wisconsin State Representative Stephen Nass (R-Whitewater) has taken issue with the state University's Health Services for its decision to distribute free lip balm, sunscreen, and condoms to students before spring break.
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by STEPHANIE SIMON, Reuters
Xavier University, one of the oldest Roman Catholic colleges in the United States, will cut off birth-control coverage for its employees in July, a move that has divided faculty members and students on the Cincinnati campus.
The abrupt cancellation of insurance benefits at the Jesuit university in Ohio comes amid a furious dispute between the Obama administration and the nation's Catholic bishops over contraception. [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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Via J'nene Solidarity Kay, Deanna Dahlsad
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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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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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by ROBIN MARTY, RH Reality Check
One of the justifications that anti-choice activists and politicians give when it comes to proposing or supporting mandatory ultrasound bills is, "It's not a big deal, doctors already provide them before most abortions, anyway."
If it weren't a big deal, and they really believed that doctors almost always do one already, there would be no reason to put a mandatory law in place. But, it's not about the ultrasound, it's about the chance to insert government into the doctor/patient relationship only when it comes to women's reproductive choices, health, and lives. And, as one doctor notes, it's about turning what is usually just a part of the medical procedure into an "implement of torture." [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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by ROBIN MARTY, RH Reality Check
A small bomb exploded at Planned Parenthood's Appleton North Health Center in Wisconsin, according to numerous news reports. The Green Bay Press Gazette reports that a "small, homemade explosive device" was placed on a windowsill of the clinic at around 7:30 p.m. Sunday night, causing damage as well as small fire. [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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By Laura Bassett, The Huffington Post
An Oklahoma state judge on Wednesday permanently blocked enforcement of a law that would have required doctors to give a woman an ultrasound and describe the fetus to her in detail before performing an abortion. The ultrasound law, which the Oklahoma Legislature passed in April 2010, had been temporary blocked since the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit against it the following month. Via Lynda Park
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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
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by ROBIN MARTY, RH Reality Check
In 2010, Alaska Governor Sean Parnell refused to approve an expansion of Denali KidCare, a program that provides health care for low-income pregnant women and children, even though a $1 million expansion paid for by the state would have resulted in nearly twice that much federal funding in return. Denali KidCare covers approximately 8,000 kids in need in Alaska, and with the matching funds, an expansion could have resulted in coverage of an additional 1,277 children and 225 pregnant women.
Moreover, an estimated 18,000 children across the state are uninsured but currently are ineligible under current state criteria. According to the Juneau Empire, Sen. Bettye Davis is proposing that the state expand eligibility from 175 percent of poverty level to 200 percent -- but only for those age 12 and under. (The average across all states for eligibility is 241 percent of the federal poverty line.)
Why the age limit and all the wrangling? Why almost two years later is the state still fighting over expanding KidCare?
Because, according to Davis, it is the only way "to avoid the pregnancy and abortion concerns." [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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An update on the opposition to a lingerie shop:
""Obscenity" is, after all, a matter of what a community deems appropriate; and that means only the folks who live in Grand Forks ought to sign the petition. If anyone "ought to." I don't think a lingerie store with vibrators ought to be considered "obscene" no matter where it is located.
Twenty dollars says the folks signing the petition are buying these things themselves anyway. Bigots usually do legislate and police the very things they do but think others should not. As such, they also eschew raising their own children." Via Gracie Passette
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The Republican all-male-dominated debate on contraception took a new turn this week when Teaparty Sen.
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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, 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, Deanna Dahlsad
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Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood and advocate for planned parenting & birth control before women even had the right to vote, is often misquoted or quoted out of context. And one thing is generally missing from any conversation about Sanger and her times: The subject of eugenics itself.
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This paper, published between 1900 and 1930, was part of Sanger’s collection, but it's far more complicated than it seems!
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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
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Writing The Messy Life Of A Sexual Health PioneerNPRHer work around sexual health made her one of the most celebrated and vilified figures in women's history. Via Douglas Braun-Harvey
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