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Palin Doesn’t Convince the Pro-Life Movement, Either: Stephanie Mencimer at Mother Jones reports that a Pro-life movement, the American Right to Life, believes that Palin is secretly pro-choice. Dispute Over Repercussions of  Health Care Reform Act? At the NPR health blog Shots, Julie Rovner explains that neither abortion rights groups nor anti-abortion groups believe that [...]

Sometimes, the left wing doesn’t know what the right wing is doing. Unfortunately, the long-awaited passage of health care reform leaves us with little to crow about. Bart Stupak’s amendment to prevent anyone receiving a federal subsidy from buying a health insurance plan that covers abortions is a shocking attack on women on welfare. What’s [...]

This video, featuring Dr. John D. Clarke, won the Center for Disease Control (CDC)’s contest and will air as their public service announcement about avoiding H1N1, the swine flu virus. Unlike Dr. Dre, Dr. Clarke has a medical degree, and unlike Jay-Z, his PSA is not about being “CEO of the ROC”. He’s been spitting”health [...]

Are women’s magazines bad for women? It might seem like a stupid question. But when, as the New York Times reports, a University of Missouri study “found that looking at women’s magazines for 1-3 minutes had a negative impact on women’s self esteem. So imagine what happens if we’re bombarded by these images every day.” [...]