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Health Care Bill Throws Women Under the Bus on Reproductive Rights

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. March 22, 2010.

Despite the many good elements in the health care bill, it deals a heavy blow to the pro-choice movement.

A Pro-Choice To-Do List For the New Decade

Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. January 5, 2010.

In the next decade, pro-choicers need to go on the offense, and stop just playing defense.

Right-Wing Lobbyists Try Scare Tactic of Abortion to Thwart Health Reform

Dana Goldstein, The American Prospect. July 15, 2009.

Using the false threat of taxpayer-funded abortion, lobbyists are attempting to scuttle support for a public option.

Anti-Abortion Law Targets Native American Women

Mike Lillis, Washington Independent. March 6, 2008.

A new bill makes it more difficult for Native American women to access reproductive health services. So why are some Democrats supporting it?

New Hope For a Woman's Right to Choose

Allison Stevens, Women's eNews. January 10, 2007.

The Hyde Amendment has prevented federal funding of abortion services to low-income women for three decades. Now that its namesake has left Congress, pro-choicers are campaigning to dismantle it.