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Category: Dispatches from the Abortion Wars
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The Obama administration overruled the FDA’s recommendation to make Plan B an over-the-counter for teenagers. Carole Joffe looks at how this decision echoes earlier restrictions.
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There is another 99 percent group in our country, distinct from but inextricably entwined with the now more familiar 99 percent evoked by Occupy Wall Street.
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Carole Joffe looks at how one target of anti-choice bullying used his opponents’ tactics to strike back.
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When politicians lie about health care issues it puts people at risk.
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Governor Rick Perry presides over a state in which 25 percent of men have no health insurance, and he’s pushed to de-fund family planning.
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The former first lady was never shy about expressing her views, but a Republican First Lady openly supporting the right to abortion would be unthinkable today.
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While fights over funding for women’s health rage in our nation’s capitol and state houses across the country, a more violent threat persists for abortion providers.
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It’s not just the worker’s rights: women’s reproductive rights are also under attack in Wisconsin.
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How did an organization that was supported by Barry Goldwater and Harry Truman become demonized by the GOP? Carole Joffe looks at the politics of defunding Planned Parenthood.
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Carole Joffe looks at the broader issues at stake for reproductive health when “rogue clinics” are allowed to operate.
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