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Report: Pregnant Workers Continue to Face Widespread Discrimination on the Job

A new report issued by the National Women's Law Center and A Better Balance shows that pregnancy discrimination remains a significant drag on the economy.

A new report issued by the National Women’s Law Center and A Better Balance shows that pregnancy discrimination remains a significant drag on the economy.

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Texas Consolidates its Most Horrifying Anti-Choice Bills Into One Nightmare Piece of Legislation

State Republicans are hell-bent on opening satellite offices in every Texan uterus at the first opportunity.

After a legislative session hailed for its supposed “compromise” on abortion, Texas Republicans have taken the first opportunity to force through an omnibus anti-choice bill that contains the worst of this year’s proposed abortion restrictions.

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Men Choose Abortion Too

Despite what Live Action might say, not all men are against abortion—many think it is a complicated issue and support their partners in their decision-making.

Despite what Live Action suggests, not all men are against abortion—many think it is a complicated issue and support their partners in their decision-making.

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Is Marriage Equality Almost Here? Six Possible Outcomes of the DOMA and Prop 8 Cases

Sacramento, California, November 22, 2008: Protest against the passage of Proposition 8.

The Supreme Court decisions on DOMA and Prop 8 are expected to come down this month. We’ll soon find out if the Court has chosen to advance the cause of marriage equality, or if it will it leave it for another day.

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The Pillars and Possibilities of a Global Plan to Address HIV in Women and Their Children

What has worked and what needs to be improved, to ensure that the HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls are adequately addressed?

A Global Plan on HIV and AIDS? It has to work for women as well as for their children. Here’s how we can make that happen.

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Griswold v. Connecticut and the Evolution of Personal Privacy Rights. What’s Next?

Outside the Supreme Court as Griswold was being decided.

A landmark decision about contraception likely paved the way for the legal acceptance of same-sex marriage.

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Austin May Become First Texas City With Paid Parental Leave

Texas' capital city may be the first in the state to offer paid parental leave to city employees.

Texas’ capital city may be the first in the state to offer paid parental leave to city employees.

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Sexual Health Roundup: Condoms as Evidence, Lies About Sexual History, and Sex Toys at Elite Schools

The Boston School Committee is considering adopting a new policy that would add sexuality education and other health courses and make condoms available at all high schools in the city.

This week, the Brooklyn DA told cops to stop collecting condoms as evidence of prostitution, studies found that college kids lie about their sexual behavior and students at elite British schools buy a lot of sex toys, and the U.S. cities that have the most same-sex couples raising kids may surprise you.

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The Cost of a Woman’s Life

Maternal deaths have reduced by nearly half since Millennium Development Goal 5 – which aims to improve maternal mortality – was established, but there is still a ways to go to achieve this goal by 2015.

Developing nations like Kenya have not experienced the overall decrease in maternal mortality enjoyed across the globe. More needs to be done to address the impact of maternal death on families and communities.

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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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