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by ALLISON YARROW, The Daily Beast She’s faced bombings, protests, and legal attacks. Now, as a judge decides the fate of her abortion clinic—the last one in Mississippi—Diane Derzis reflects on her decades of work. Via J'nene Solidarity Kay 
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by JESSICA VALENTI, Boston Magazine
Forty years after the Supreme Court settled it, we’re somehow having a birth control debate. Again. And Scott Brown’s political future could hang in the balance.
IF YOU’D ASKED American women a year ago about the most pressing concerns facing the country, they’d have given you a variety of responses: the economy, war, education. Some might have even mentioned reproductive rights. But I doubt a single one of them could have anticipated that in 2012 they’d be worrying about access to birth control. I mean, didn’t we settle all of that decades ago? [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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The UN Commission on Population and Development is considering “sexual and reproductive health and rights” for children as young as ten. Even the Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon agrees. In a statement recently released he said, “Young people, as much as all people, share the human right to health, including sexual and reproductive health.”
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by ANDREA STONEA, huffingtonpost.com
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has released a new video featuring Gloria Steinem, in which the feminist icon argues that this election is a "turning point" and that women should grant Obama a second term if they want to see their rights protected.
[MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance - Defining Sexual Freedom as a Fundamental Human Right... Via Gracie Passette
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COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN, Current TV
Gloria Feldt, former president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, and Eliot Spitzer, former governor of New York, discuss how the regulation of women’s reproductive rights is part of a much broader effort to limit freedom. “The abortion issue itself has never been about abortion. It has always been the tip of a much larger ideological iceberg that is about the nature and purpose of human sexuality and the nature and purpose of women’s place in the world,” says Feldt. [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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As a woman living with HIV and working with HIV-positive women throughout the U.S., I know all too well what character assassinations, funding restrictions, and the overall environment can do to women. Via Gracie Passette
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by: Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet | Op-Ed
Don't be fooled by the Limbaugh backlash. It's true that progressives and women's groups are fighting back with unprecedented vigor, and the campaigns against Komen, against Rush Limbaugh's sexist smears, against the Blunt Amendment, show that women can organize quickly and powerfully over social media. And yes, it remains crucial that the nasty sexism and racism emitting from the shock jock is finally getting its deserved public airing.
But extremist politicians haven't gotten the message yet: the policies that mirror and feed from Limbaugh's smears still exist, and may in fact be worsening. The GOP War on Women is in full throttle over a year since it kicked off, taking its toll in particular on the state level where recent data shows that all the posturing has dramatically changed living conditions for women--and not for the better.
Here are five ways the GOP are continuing their onslaught on women's rights that are crying out for the kind of intense pushback that we now know women's and reproductive justice advocates are capable of. [MORE] Via Lynda Park
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The National Organization for Women (NOW): Taking action for women's equality since 1966.
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