Anti-Choice Blogger Cruelly Mocks Women’s Experiences

By: Tuesday September 28, 2010 6:57 am

Our website offers a safe space for women to share powerful and heart-felt accounts of their personal experiences. So I was deeply disgusted and outraged when an anti-choice blogger mocked these personal stories.

Written by Nancy Keenan for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Unmasking Fake Clinics: The California Edition of 12th and Delaware

By: Tuesday August 10, 2010 6:48 am

The movie 12th and Delaware was set in Florida, but fake clinics are rife everywhere. NARAL Pro-Choice California Foundation’s investigation, Unmasking Fake Clinics, reveals what happens to women in crisis pregnancy centers in California. 

Written by Alexa Cole for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Common Ground on Abortion? Views from Under the Bus

By: Monday July 26, 2010 6:52 am

Can common ground be found with people like Sharron Angle? Reproductive rights experts answer these questions and explain why the ground is erroding beneath us in the abortion debate.

Written by Robin Marty for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

The Newsweek Article: Reflections by a Young Prochoice Activist

By: Tuesday April 20, 2010 7:23 am

I’ve pretty much devoted my college career to making a ruckus for reproductive justice. So imagine my surprise when I read Newsweek’s piece suggesting the next generation doesn’t think abortion rights need defending.

Written by Elise Higgins for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post.

Weekly Pulse: Obama Signs Health Reform Bill, Backlash Begins

By: Wednesday March 24, 2010 9:07 am

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger

Yesterday, President Obama signed health care reform into law. As Mike Lillis explains in the Washington Independent, the bill now proceeds to the Senate for reconciliation. The whole process could be complete by the end of the week. Republicans and their allies have already moved to challenge reform in court.

Colorado Maternity Care Mandate Raises Pro-choice Hackles

By: Thursday February 25, 2010 6:36 am

A seemingly feel-good bill to require insurance plans to cover maternity care and contraception in Colorado is fraught with problems that could have been solved by long-delayed federal legislation.

Written by Wendy Norris for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Boxer: “Not All the Choice Groups Oppose This Bill”

By: Monday December 21, 2009 1:58 pm

Senator Barbara Boxer, touting the Nelson “compromise” abortion language and confronted with Planned Parenthood’s opposition to the bill, claims that “not all the choice groups oppose this bill.”

AARP to Score Cloture Vote on HCR; Will NARAL, NOW, Planned Parenthood Counter?

By: Saturday December 19, 2009 5:59 pm

AARP has announced that their organization will ‘score’ the cloture vote on the Manager’s Amendment on health care ‘reform’ as a Key Vote, informing their members how Senators voted when the election comes around. Of course, AARP favors the Manager’s Amendment, which includes the odious forced-birth Nelson language that has led NOW, NARAL/Pro-Choice America, and Planned Parenthood to come out against the bill. Notorious for allowing Senators to slide on cloture votes in the past, will these organizations put their considerable muscle behind their opposition and announce they plan to ‘score’ votes on cloture as well as the bill itself?

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