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Category: Reproductive rights

“Grandma” offers a refreshing, accepting view of abortion

October 5, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Literature/Arts/Film, Reproductive rights, Women Leave a comment

“Grandma” is a trifle of a movie with the socially redeeming characteristic of portraying an accepting attitude toward  abortions. Unlike most Hollywood films, broadcast-TV

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Planned Parenthood: What really happens at a clinic

September 16, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Reproductive rights Leave a comment

The Republicans and anti-choicers who are using heavily-doctored, appallingly-edited videos which raise serious questions about the legality and morality of those who took them

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Abortion: Focusing on the real issues, not the distractions

August 21, 2015 Arthur Lieber Civil liberties, Ethics, Gender issues, Health care, Human Rights, Justice, Reproductive rights Leave a comment

Abortion opponents often like to dwell on minutia, such as whether or not Planned Parenthood profits from making embryonic organs available for life-saving research.

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As much as ever, in 2014 women deserve the right to choose

April 22, 2014 Arthur Lieber 2014 Election, Civil liberties, Gender issues, Health, Human Rights, Reproductive rights, Women Leave a comment

Questions related to reproductive health, and most specifically abortion, are not easy to answer. Choice is the kind of issue that should humble us

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Rape insurance abortion rider goes into effect in Michigan

April 10, 2014 Progress Women Gender issues, Reproductive rights, States, Women Leave a comment

Starting in late March, Michigan women really  started feeling the affects of the “War on Women.” The state’s new law known as “rape insurance”—an

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Lesson learned: My Catholic hospital can limit my medical choices

February 12, 2014 Nicole Lopez Health, Health care, Illinois/Midwest, Religion in Politics, Reproductive rights, Women 3 comments

What’s in a choice? Options. In order to make a choice, you must have options. As descendants of those who fled religious persecution, many

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Why women do not love Huckabee

January 27, 2014 Hafsa People, Reproductive rights, Republicans, Women One comment

Well, clearly, someone did not learn from Todd Akin. As if the Republican Party really had any leeway for chauvinistic comments after Akin’s “legitimate

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What to expect when you’re expecting

November 15, 2013 Progress Women Activism, Children, Civil Rights, Congress, Consumer issues, Corporations, Employment, Health, Health care, Reproductive rights, Women Leave a comment

By Sarah Casteel, Clayton High School senior, St. Louis MO While our society still faces sex-based workplace discrimination — clearly most often targeted at

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The “admitting privileges” fraud

November 6, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, Congress, Health, Health care, Reproductive rights, Women Leave a comment

To be an abortion provider in Texas, you have to have “admitting privileges” at a hospital within 30 miles of the facility. That restriction,

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Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) myths: “It’s bad for women”

October 2, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik ACA/Obamacare, Reproductive rights, Women Leave a comment

In the delirium that has preceded the launch of the Affordable Care Act, Republicans and other Obama-haters have tried to undermine the new law

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