The People's Choice
Katha Pollitt
Finally, a prochoice president. Here are five ways to solidify his position.
2008
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Women's Choice at Risk on Election Day
Reeve Hamilton : Presidential Election 2008
Attorney Sarah Weddington discusses the impact this election could have on reproductive rights.
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The 'Mother's Health' Moment
Talking Points Memo : Presidential Election 2008
Obama and McCain exchange blows on abortion rights and a mother's health, the latter of which is too extreme for the Republican.
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Follow-ups for Sarah Palin
Katha Pollitt : Sarah Palin
Don't let reproductive rights get lost in the run-up to Election Day.
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Listen to the Women
Barbara Crossette : United Nations
As the UN meets today to assess its plan to heal a suffering world, the billions of women who still lack fundamental rights--especially reproductive rights- must be heard.
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Sarah Palin's Shotgun Politics
Gary Younge : Republican Party
The vile politics of the party of abstinence stepped up to suffocate Bristol Palin in its embrace.
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Term Limits: Our National Obsession With Late-Term Abortion
Jessica Arons
The debate over late-term abortion has lasted long enough. It's a phony issue designed to undermine our trust in women.
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Why Do Women Give McCain a Zero?
Brave New Films : Presidential Election 2008
Here's a sneak peek at what a women's health clinic could look like if John McCain is elected president.
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Déjà Vu in South Dakota
Katha Pollitt : South Dakota
It's going to take a concerted national effort to defeat the state's latest anti-choice ballot initiative.
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Wanted: More White Babies
Kathryn Joyce & VideoNation : Feminism & Women
A look at a cynical Christian Conservative effort to export the U.S. culture wars.
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Cool Devastation
Stuart Klawans : Film Reviews
American movie-goers finally get to see Cristian Mungiu's stunning 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
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The Mourning After
Sarah Blustain : Men
The antiabortion movement has found a new face to exploit for political gain. And it's male.
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Long Roe to Hoe
Frances Kissling & Kate Michelman : Feminism & Women
Improving the sorry state of US reproductive health policy requires serious shifts within the women's movement and the abortion rights movement.
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Maternity Fashions, Junior Size
Katha Pollitt : Youth
Teens getting pregnant: bad. Teens having babies: good. If this makes no sense, wake up and smell the Enfamil: it's 2008!
2007
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ART in America
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow : Autobiography & Memoir
Two new books explore the possibilities and ethical complications of assisted reproductive technology.
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With Facts on Our Side
Faced with a choice between facts and theology, antichoicers choose the latter every time.
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A Challenge to Progressives on Choice
New reproductive technologies that could allow the rich to become genetically richer and the poor even more disadvantaged are challenging progressives to take a fresh look at core principles.
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Sanger vs. Sanger
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow : Feminism & Women
Demonized for decades by ideological foes on the right and left, the mother of the birth control movement is finally able to speak for herself.
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Winning the War of Words
Prochoice activists are taking a page from the right by applying a values-driven strategy designed to prevent abortions.
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Misjudging Women
In Gonzalez v. Carhart, Justice Anthony Kennedy has utterly changed the course of abortion jurisprudence.
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Regrets Only
The Supreme Court's recent antichoice decision shows how deeply disinformation has seeped into the abortion debate.
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Curbing Abortion Rights
Karen Houppert : Supreme Court
Newcomer Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito showed their true stripes by supporting a landmark late-term abortion ban.
2006
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A Win for Women
Liza Featherstone : South Dakota
Thanks to a thoughtful grassroots campaign, voters in South Dakota rejected a draconian abortion ban.
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Democracy Worked for SD Abortion Vote
Liza Featherstone : South Dakota
The electoral process worked for pro-choice advocates in South Dakota, overturning an abortion ban with a grassroots appeal to keep the government out of citizens' personal lives.
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Driving Planned Parenthood
Jennifer Baumgardner : Electoral Politics
Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood's new president, leads an organization searching for new national strategies, as a crucial vote in South Dakota tests its grassroots clout.
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