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RH Reality Check wrote a new diary post: Adoption Imperialism: A Q&A With ‘The Child Catchers’ Author Kathryn Joyce
Written by Sarah Seltzer for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . Kathryn Joyce’s new look at the adoption industry, The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption , contains within its pages true horror stories. Perhaps most shockingly, the book details [...] -
RH Reality Check wrote a new diary post: In El Salvador, a Country Awaits the Supreme Court Decision on Beatriz’s Life
Written by Kathy Bougher for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post .
See all our coverage of Beatriz here. Petition the El Salvadoran President and Supreme Court for Beatriz’s life here.
On Wednesday, May 15 the Supreme Court of El Salvador will hear testimony from Beatriz, [...]
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RH Reality Check wrote a new diary post: Bishops Tap Veteran of Islamophobic, Homophobic Legal Shop as Top Flack
Written by Adele Stan for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post .
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. — Niccolo Machiavelli
At a gathering of Catholics in his archdiocese last year, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, the archbishop of New York, [...]
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RH Reality Check wrote a new diary post: A Gosnell Amendment? Jennifer Rubin Plays Doctor and Legislator—and Fails
Written by Editor-in-Chief Jodi Jacobson for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . There are two roles anti-choicers like to play for which they are ill-equipped. First, they like to play doctor. And second, they like to play God. In doing so, they [...] -
RH Reality Check wrote a new diary post: Administration Again Fails on Over-the-Counter Emergency Contraception
Editor’s Note: The Justice Department filed suit to block Judge Korman’s ruling .
The Obama administration said Wednesday that girls under 15 should not have access to the most common morning-after contraceptive pill as the Justice Department filed a notice to appeal a judge’s order that would make the drug available without a prescription for girls and women of all [...]
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RH Reality Check wrote a new diary post: Poverty Causes Teen Parenting, Not the Other Way Around
Written by Martha Kempner for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . Like many RH Reality Check readers, I have been closely following New York City’s fear- and shame-based campaign against teen pregnancy . The print ads include pictures of crying babies with captions like “Honestly [...] -
RH Reality Check wrote a new diary post: The Bishops’ Lawsuit: A Colossal and Purposeful Drain on Public Funds
Written by Bridgette Dunlap for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . This week, the government filed an emergency motion in the New York Archdiocese’s lawsuit against the contraceptive coverage mandate, requesting that the court halt proceedings and dismiss the case. The emergency [...] -
RH Reality Check wrote a new diary post: There Is No Magic Word: Why We Are and Must Remain ‘Pro-Choice’
Written by Jon O’Brien for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . At a time when state legislatures continue to break new records for the number of restrictions on reproductive health-care access introduced, passed into law, and placed on ballots, when lawsuits against birth [...] -
RH Reality Check wrote a new diary post: Why Does the ACGME Want to Eliminate Contraceptive Training for Family Physicians?
Written by Dr. Linda Prine and Dr. Ruth Lesnewski for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . In one of the clinics where we work, a 16-year-old girl came in with a sprained ankle. She left with a prescription for birth control. This turn of [...] -
RH Reality Check wrote a new diary post: In El Salvador, Yet Another Woman’s Life Subordinated to Non-Viable Fetus
Written by Kathy Bougher for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . Beatriz wants to live. A 22-year-old Salvadoran from a poor, rural community, Beatriz (a pseudonym to protect privacy) suffers from chronic and severe medical conditions . She is the mother of an infant. And she [...] -
RH Reality Check wrote a new diary post: Judge Rules Anti-Choice Terrorist Can Claim Religious Protection for Conversations with Tiller Murderer
Written by Jessica Mason Pieklo for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . On Friday U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten handed anti-choice terrorist Angel Dillard a win, ruling Dillard doesn’t have to disclose “ministerial discussions” she had with Scott Roeder, the man convicted [...] -
RH Reality Check wrote a new diary post: Ohio Lawmakers Work to Prohibit Teaching About “Gateway Sexual Activity”
Written by Martha Kempner for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . Though most of us are still not quite sure what it is, the concept of “gateway sexual activity” is back, or at least a ban on teaching about it is back.This [...] -
RH Reality Check wrote a new diary post: The Media and the Gosnell Case: A Case of Insecurity and a Misinformation Campaign
Written by Tara Murtha for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . In recent days, amidst cries of a media “blackout,” a number of journalists have admitted to either missing or dismissing the story of Dr. Kermit Gosnell over the past two years. [...] -
RH Reality Check wrote a new diary post: Media Silence on Gosnell? Let’s Talk About the Women of Color Without Decent Health Care
Written by Erin Grant for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . See all our coverage of the Kermit Gosnell case here. Some reporters and media critics have claimed that not enough is being written about the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, an illegal abortion [...] -
RH Reality Check wrote a new diary post: Separating Truth From Lies Around the Kermit Gosnell Case
Written by Amanda Marcotte for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . 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 [...] -
RH Reality Check wrote a new diary post: State Policy Trends 2013: Abortion Bans Move to the Forefront
Written by Elizabeth Nash and Rachel Benson Gold for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . In 2013, as in recent years, state legislatures are devoting significant attention to issues related to reproductive health and rights. During the first three months of the year, [...] -
RH Reality Check wrote a new diary post: Women Not on the Priority List: President Obama’s Budget, Congress, and the Struggle for Affordable Abortion Care
Written by Morgan Meneses-Sheets for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . After a significant delay, the president submitted his budget to Congress Wednesday. Reproductive health, rights, and justice advocates were pleased to see that he included language allowing the District of Columbia to [...] -
RH Reality Check wrote a new diary post: Legacy of Tiller’s Murder: Anti-Choice Terrorists Threaten Staff at Wichita Clinic
Written by Kari Ann Rinker for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . Every community has its own unique history shaped its people, its geography, and its circumstance. Wichita, Kansas, has been home to such notable people as Carrie Nation and Wyatt Earp. [...]
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RH Reality Check wrote a new diary post: Emergency Contraception and Moral Panic: Dissecting the Newest Misinformation Campaign
Written by Sidra Zaidi for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . Reproductive rights advocates have something to cheer about: A federal judge ruled last week that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must allow universal access to Plan B over-the-counter for all [...] -
RH Reality Check wrote a new diary post: Court Orders FDA to Make Emergency Contraception Available Over-the-Counter for All Ages
Written by Jodi Jacobson for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . In a long-awaited decision released early this morning, U.S. District Court Judge Edward Korman ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make emergency contraception available over-the-counter to women of all ages, marking [...]
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