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Women flex muscle at the polls
Congratulations, ladies. You kept the barbarians from the gate. On Tuesday, Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri, who famously said that a woman's reproductive system shuts down during "legitimate rape" and prevents conception, lost by 15 points to incumbent Sen....
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Richard Mourdock, Planned Parenthood, Joe Donnelly, Claire McCaskill
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Facts and opinions in election's aftermath
Fact: The empathy factor was a big winner for President Barack Obama. Opinion: It proved impossible for a wealthy CEO-type to compete in the "he cares about us" category. Mitt Romney's "47 percent" comment most certainly (further) strengthened this...
Tags: Personal Data Collection, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Interior Policy, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Sudden estrangement may be sign of domestic abuse
Dear Amy: My husband and I are heartsick over a request from our son to refrain from having any contact with him or our daughter-in-law. They have been married for five years, and we feel we have always been kind, generous and supportive of them. One...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Family Planning, Planned Parenthood, Social Issues, Abusive Behavior
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Big bird, BS and birth control
WASHINGTON -- We shouldn't be talking about this silliness -- Big Bird, "bull -- er," or a girl's "first time." We should be talking about The Issues, we keep telling ourselves. But in the waning days of the presidential campaign, these are the issues --...
Tags: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Family Planning, Richard Mourdock, Health Treatments, Lena Dunham
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40 years of Roe and Doe
Forty years ago Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided one of its most important cases: Doe v. Bolton. Never heard of it? Not surprising, but sad. That decision set the divisive tone of American political debate for the 20th century's last quarter...
Tags: Family Planning, U.S. Supreme Court, Planned Parenthood, Abortion Issue, Social Issues
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Presidential election or abortion referendum?
The platforms that the two political parties publish every four years are a lot like the warranties that come with washers or refrigerators: Nobody ever reads them, but if you do, you find that nothing in them actually applies. This year, though, the...
Tags: Social Issues, Abortion, Todd Akin, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama
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Daum: Zygotes on a slippery slope
When I first heard about Personhood USA, I got it confused with Up with People, the organization best known for song-and-dance troupes that go around the world singing songs like "Which Way America?" and "What Color Is God's Skin?" When I realized it...Tags: Family Planning, Murder, Gays and Lesbians, Health Treatments, Social Issues
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'Here Comes the Boom' review: Thud
*1/2 (out of four) Sorry, art and theater departments. A Boston high school principal (Greg Germann) says he has to cut all non-athletic extracurricular activities, but no one mentions any programs besides music. Biology teacher Scott Voss (Kevin James)...
Tags: Greg Germann, Salma Hayek, Kevin James, Henry Winkler, Joel Edgerton
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Who's winning the war on women?
Things are looking up for the female sex. We are earning almost 60 percent of bachelor's degrees, and our numbers are skyrocketing in law, medical and business schools. After graduation, we go on to hold more than half of all managerial and...Tags: Family Planning, Health Treatments, Planned Parenthood, Separation of Church and State, Social Issues
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Women need to speak up about birth control
Where are the women?
In the extreme and ill-tempered debate over the availability of contraceptives for women, we have heard from the president, the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church, the Republican presidential candidates, members if Congress and...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Family Planning, Colleges and Universities, Health Treatments, Family
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Fort Wayne teacher fired for using in vitro fertilization speaks out
A Fort Wayne, Ind., teacher fired after higher-ups at the Catholic School she was teaching at learned she was using in vitro fertilization to get pregnant spoke out Friday. Emily Herx said all she and her husband, Brian, wanted was more children....
Tags: In Vitro Fertilization, Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Infertility, Roman Catholicism
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Video/Q&A: 'A Haunted House' star/co-writer Marlon Wayans
Within the first three minutes of our conversation, Marlon Wayans mocks my shoes, imagines an ethnically diverse array of naked women surrounding him, describes the peaceful way to strangle a cow and his plan to delay sitting on the toilet in order to...
Tags: Enya, Entertainment, Ethan Coen, Lil Wayne, Steaks
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