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Beatriz Case Reveals Catholic Hierarchy’s War on Women

The church fathers' refusal to ordain women priests or to sanction the use of contraception suggests that contempt for women drives the draconian abortion doctrine they'd like to put into law across the globe.

The church fathers’ refusal to ordain women priests or to sanction the use of contraception suggests that contempt for women drives the draconian abortion doctrine they’d like to put into law across the globe.

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Get Real! His Religious Beliefs Say No Condoms, But I Need Them. What Do I Do?

What to do when someone's religious beliefs or ideas conflict with your need and want for safer sex and pregnancy prevention.

What to do when someone’s religious beliefs or ideas conflict with your need and want for safer sex and pregnancy prevention.

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Planned Parenthood Sues to Block Montana Parental Consent, Notification Laws

What can you do when you need an abortion, but are a minor in a state where you need parental permission  you probably can't get and you also don't have money? We walk one user in this common situation through initial steps.

A lawsuit filed Thursday challenges the state’s brand new parental consent law and an older, less stringent parental notification measure.

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Fetal Viability and 20-Week Bans: A Constitutional ‘Bright Line’ for Abortion Restrictions

The battle over Arizona's 20-week abortion ban re-affirms a fundamental right to choose abortion, but by embracing fetal viability as a legal cut-off point is the court just making matters worse?

The battle over Arizona’s 20-week abortion ban re-affirms a fundamental right to choose abortion, but by embracing fetal viability as a legal cut-off point is the court just making matters worse?

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ACLU Challenges Arizona’s Race and Sex Selection Abortion Ban

A lawsuit filed Wednesday claims Arizona's HB 2443 is racially motivated and based on improper racial stereotypes.

A lawsuit filed Wednesday claims Arizona’s HB 2443 is racially motivated and based on improper racial stereotypes.

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Congress’ ‘Schoolyard Bullies’ Take Aim at D.C. Women

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) compared Congress members who banned the use of local funds for poor women's abortions to "schoolyard bullies."

Lost in a netherworld where it is less than a state and something other than a city, the District of Columbia is being used by right-wingers in Congress as a battleground on reproductive justice and much more.

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Legal Wrap: Another Federal Court Re-Affirms Abortion Rights

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Arizona’s 20-week abortion ban falls, but that won’t stop anti-choice legislators in D.C. from pushing ahead with their own version.

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Supreme Court Won’t Step Into Planned Parenthood Funding Fray—for Now

RAINN praised the recent SCOTUS ruling saying it was a step forward for rape survivors, but I disagree.

A decision to let stand a federal appeals court ruling that Indiana can’t defund Planned Parenthood is good news, but it isn’t necessarily a signal from the Roberts court that the issue is over.

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Dual Strategies Used to Attack Planned Parenthood in Louisiana, Ohio, and Oklahoma

The war on Planned Parenthood is now reaching epic proportions, as multiple states try to defund existing clinics and block new ones from opening.

The war on Planned Parenthood is now reaching epic proportions, as multiple states try to defund existing clinics and block new ones from opening.

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Reason for Concern as Roberts Court Agrees to Hear Government Prayer Case

The next Supreme Court Term could be historic in re-defining religious liberty.

The next Supreme Court term could be historic in re-defining religious liberty.

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