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Separating Truth From Lies Around the Kermit Gosnell Case
See all our coverage of the Kermit Gosnell case here. Kermit Gosnell, the sadistic monster who exploited lack of access to safe abortion care among poor and immigrant women to both torture women and...
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Brownback, Jesus and Mary: Religious Freedom Apparently Doesn’t Apply To...
To no one’s great surprise, Gov. Sam Brownback signed a massive anti-choice bill on Friday. The bill declares that life begins “at fertilization” (even though sperm and eggs are—like all human...
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Florida’s Racist Anti-Choice Bill Prompts Walkout By Female Legislators
Of the many and varied lies told by anti-choicers in their quest to separate women from their basic human rights to bodily autonomy, the claim that women need to lose their rights in order to protect...
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Time to Demand All Birth Control Pills Be Sold Over-the-Counter
In all the fussing over the sale of emergency contraception over-the-counter (OTC), it’s easy to forget that there’s another contraception drug out there that should be available OTC but isn’t: the...
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The Obama Administration’s Plan B Folly
In 1985, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara Tuchman wrote a famous book looking at the question of why leaders not only make bad choices, but keep making them long after it’s obvious to pretty...
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West Virginia Sexting Law Likely to Harm Already-Victimized Girls
While I suspect most teen sexting is relatively harmless, most of us are rightly concerned about incidents in which naked pictures of teenagers get forwarded and distributed without their consent. In...
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What’s the Matter With Virginia?
If you ever want to see how it is that anti-choice radicals manage to get so much power in a nation that by and large opposes their agenda, look no further than what’s going on in Virginia. The state...
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Reproductive Coercion: A Widespread Form of Domestic Violence Supported by...
As Martha Kempner recently reported here at RH Reality Check, Roman Polanski—admitted rapist and all-around creep—doesn’t like it when women can control their own fertility. “I think that the Pill has...
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Conservatives Double Down on the War on Women
With all the moaning and wailing at Fox News and other right-wing media outlets about the supposed unfairness about the phrase “war on women,” you’d think conservative politicians would try to avoid...
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Who Is to Blame for Rape, Hazing, and Bullying? It’s Simple: Rapists and...
What will it take to get ordinary, everyday people to accept that sexual assault is a terrible crime? It almost seems asinine to ask that, because most people, if asked, will agree with the contention...
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Who Really Controls Rick Perry and David Dewhurst?
Less than a day after pro-choice activists and Democratic state senators defeated a massive anti-choice bill designed to shut down all but five abortion clinics in the whole state of Texas, Republican...
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Memo to Trojan: Non-Married People Have Sex. Get Over It
The year is 2013. The research shows that 95 percent of Americans have had premarital sex. In fact, it’s downright common these days for people all over the political spectrum to recommend premarital...
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Every Reason for an Abortion Is a Good Reason
While spouting a series of lies, Bill O’Reilly whined recently on Fox News that women in Texas are providing what he considers insufficient reasons for getting an abortion. The exchange between him and...
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New Texas Law Unfair, Increases Inequality
Read all of RH Reality Check‘s coverage of the recent fight for reproductive rights in Texas here. There will be many, many pixels spent on the ramifications of the new law in Texas, signed by Gov....
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Anti-Rape Bill Could Create Wedge Between Different Anti-Feminist Factions
As Todd Akin and the country at large learned during the 2012 elections, pregnancies resulting from rape are very real and sadly all too common. If there was one silver lining in the entire debacle and...
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Texas Adoption Bill Shows How Little Anti-Choicers Think of Women
Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry had to call a third special session this summer to deal with the actual business of running the state government, which went neglected during the first two special...
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Political Battles Over Abortion Are About So Much More
Imagine if a politician tried to argue that people with broken legs don’t need casts, because “whole people” are focused on gas prices. Or imagine the same politician saying that since you don’t choose...
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The Deeply Disturbing World of Modern Anti-Abortion Activism
To understand how dark and ugly and mean-spirited the anti-choice movement is, it helps to understand that, for anti-choicers in Kansas at least, having an opponent murdered is not enough. You’d think...
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Anti-Choicers Trying to Drum Up Anti-Girl Scout Sentiment Again
The anti-choice movement’s expanding suspicion that the entire world is out to get it has grown to a point where anti-choicers are warning parents to avoid the Girl Scouts. While most of us think of...
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Anti-Choicers Can’t Get Around It: Their Arguments Have No Standing
As part of the struggle to prevent women from using the health-care benefits they earn, six state attorneys general—who clearly need something better to do with their time—launched a suit to give...
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