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Franciscan University Drops Entire Student Health Insurance Plan Over Birth...
via Laura Bassett, The Huffington Post Franciscan University of Steubenville, a Catholic institution in Ohio, has decided to drop its entire student health insurance plan as of the fall semester 2012...
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Brazil: Catholic Church Excommunicates Mother Of 9 Year-Old Rape Victim For...
via Guy Adams, The Independent Declaring that “life must always be protected”, a senior Vatican cleric has defended the Catholic Church’s decision to excommunicate the mother and doctors of a...
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President Obama Presses Senate To Act On Equal Pay For Women
via Jennifer Bendery, The Huffington Post President Barack Obama on Monday dropped in on a White House press call to urge the Senate to pass legislation that ensures women are paid the same amount as...
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Michigan Anti-Abortion Bill, ‘Most Extreme’ In The Country, Barrels Through...
via Laura Bassett, The Huffington Post A massive, 60-page omnibus bill that drastically limits abortion access and could shut down all abortion clinics in the state is being rushed through the Michigan...
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Michigan Reps Silenced For Use Of ‘V-Word’
via Chad Livengood, Detroit News House Republicans tried to silence two female Democratic lawmakers Thursday for floor outbursts a day earlier referencing male sterilization and a female sex organ. The...
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Last Standing Abortion Clinic In Mississippi
via Kelly Newson, The Guardian Express Come July 1, Mississippi just may be the only state in the United States to not have an abortion clinic. This is due to a huge vote in that state’s legisture for...
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Conservatives Slam Obamacare Using Pro-Choice Language
via Laura Bassett, The Huffington Post For years, Democrats and progressive women’s groups have characterized Republican attempts to limit access to abortion — such as mandatory ultrasounds and...
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North Carolina Defunds Planned Parenthood In Midnight Vote, Overriding Veto
via Laura Bassett, The Huffington Post North Carolina’s Republican-controlled state legislature voted Monday night to override Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto of a state budget that strips money from...
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Multiple States’ Abortion Laws Restrict Women’s Access To Reproductive Health...
via Emily Le Coz, The Huffington Post * Abortion opponents say laws promote safety, better care * Mississippi could be first state without abortion facility * Nearly 40 laws passed this year, 60 in...
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Candy Crowley: First Female To Moderate Presidential Debate In 20 Years
via Brian Montopoli, CBS News The Commission on Presidential Debates have announced the moderators for the three presidential debates and the vice presidential debate set to take place in October....
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Paul Ryan Selection Affirms Mitt Romney’s Flip-Flop On Abortion
via Bob Egelko, Politics Blog, The San Francisco Chronicle Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate cements Romney’s own 180-degree turnabout on abortion. Ten years ago, as a candidate...
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GOP Senate Nominee: Victims Of ‘Legitimate Rape’ Don’t Get Pregnant (And Even...
via Evan McMorris-Santoro, Talking Points Memo Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican nominee for Senate in Missouri who is running against Sen. Claire McCaskill, justified his opposition to abortion rights...
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Where Is The Pro-Choice Movement?
via Charles P. Pierce, Esquire The remarks of Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin, and Akin’s stubborn refusal to defenestrate himself to placate the party’s leaders who want him gone for...
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Republican Platform Approved By GOP In Tampa
via Philip Elliot and Alan Fram, The Huffington Post Republicans emphatically approved a toughly worded party platform at their national convention Tuesday that would ban all abortions and gay...
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Poll: Women Overwhelmingly Back Obama, Concerned About The Economy
via Alexandra Jaffe, The Hill’s Ballot Box A new poll of women nationwide shows just how steep Mitt Romney will have to climb to get out of the crater he’s in with respect to women’s vote, but...
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Mitt Romney’s Changes Stance On Abortion, Poses Challenge To Ryan Before Debate
via Gregory J. Krieg, ABC News Mitt Romney says he has no plans to push new anti-abortion laws if elected, a position that could put him at odds with parts of his core constituency and his own running...
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Arizona, Indiana Blocked From Defunding Planned Parenthood
via Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress Planned Parenthood scored two legal victories this week, with rulings in both Arizona and Indiana preventing the healthcare provider from being defunded. A federal...
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Fair Pay For Women Would Create ‘Huge’ Economic Stimulus, Economists Say
via Laura Bassett, The Huffington Post When 24-year-old preschool teacher Katherine Fenton stood up at the second presidential debate and asked the candidates what they planned to do about the gender...
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Obama Victory, Passage Of Progressive Ballot Measures All Thanks To Young Voters
via Tyler Kingkade, The Huffington Post Mitt Romney lost the youth vote by a huge margin, and with it, he lost the presidency. Sixty percent of young voters who cast ballots chose to reelect President...
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U.S. Abortion Rate Falls 5% To Lowest Point In A Decade
via USA Today U.S. abortions fell 5% during the Great Recession in the biggest one-year decrease in at least a decade, according to government figures released Wednesday. The reason for the decline...
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ACLU Sues Department of Defense Over Policy Barring Women From Combat
via Peter Henderson, Reuters The American Civil Liberties Union and four servicewomen sued the U.S. Defense Department on Tuesday to end a ban on women in combat, calling the military the last bastion...
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U.S. Senate Passes Amendment Providing Abortion Insurance For Military Rape...
via Laura Bassett, The Huffington Post In a historic bipartisan vote on Tuesday, the Senate passed Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s (D-N.H.) amendment to the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act that would...
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Bristol University’s Christian Union Bans Women From Speaking At Meetings
via Lucy Sherriff, The Huffington Post A university’s Christian society has banned women from speaking at events and teaching at meetings, unless they are accompanied by their husband, it has been...
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Republican Governor Jindal Wants Oral Contraceptives To Be Available Over The...
via Lauren McGaughy, New Orleans Times Picayune Gov. Bobby Jindal said oral contraceptives should be available over-the-counter in a Thursday evening op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. The...
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Iowa Supreme Court Says Employers Can Fire Employees For Being ‘Irresistible’
via Ryan J. Foley, Chicago Sun-Times A dentist acted legally when he fired an assistant that he found attractive simply because he and his wife viewed the woman as a threat to their marriage, the...
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