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Can Health Care Lead to Happiness?

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

June 26, 2009 - 7:00am

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We need to consider the benefits beyond physical well-being to our society--and particularly for the women in it--of a secure social safety net.

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Where Does Anti-Choice Extremism Come From?

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

June 19, 2009 - 8:00am

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Modern political history reveals that the roots of the evangelical “pro-life" movement come more from "segregation forever" than outrage in reaction to Roe.

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New Feminist Books Offer Multifaceted Critique of Culture Wars

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

June 15, 2009 - 8:00am

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A bumper crop of feminist books that came out this spring and summer reveal that women's bodies remain battlegrounds for ideological struggles all over the world.

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Six Ways the Internet Has Shaped the Discourse Around Dr. Tiller's Murder

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

June 4, 2009 - 7:00am

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The last time a doctor was murdered in cold blood for providing abortion care to women, we were not in the digital age. Now, the Internet has allowed women who've had abortions to talk back.

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On the Question of Choice, Where Does the President Stand?

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

June 1, 2009 - 8:00am

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When Obama cedes "morality" to those who oppose abortion rights, is he neglecting an opportunity to change the frame of reference, or is it smart politics to throw his opponents a linguistic bone?

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The Empathy Code: Judging, Judgment, and the Next Supreme Court Justice

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

May 15, 2009 - 8:00am

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Pro-reproductive justice philosophy is grounded in empathy -- the idea that we cannot judge another woman's choice unless we've walked a mile in her shoes.

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From Crocodile Dung to the NuvaRing, Birth Control Is Nothing New

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

April 29, 2009 - 7:00am

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Human beings have used and experimented with various methods of birth and fertility control since recorded history began.

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As Thunder Is Not Yet Rain, In Ethiopia, Legal Rights to Abortion Are Not Yet Access

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

April 21, 2009 - 8:00am

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Filmmaker Lisa Russell talks to RH Reality Check about "Not Yet Rain," a new documentary examining the impact of liberalized abortion laws in Ethiopia.

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The Date Rape Heard Round the World

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

April 13, 2009 - 2:11pm

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The date rape in "Observe and Report" is a natural progression from the "Knocked Up" mentality of sidelining women for dude-induced yuks.

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Levi Johnston: Victim in the Spotlight?

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

April 7, 2009 - 1:01pm

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As amusing as the Sarah Palin family circus may seem to gleeful liberals, there is something sad about it too. How many lives have been ruined by the kind of high-minded, impractical approach to sex that Sarah Palin's party pushed?

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