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Sex: What I Believe
It’s all about sex. Sure, my work includes lots of everyday tasks that I’m sure you do – mailings, events, conference calls, reading the news, etc. But it all comes down to sex: empowering people to...
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Talking About Sex(ually transmitted diseases)
Whether it’s to your kid, your partner, or your health care provider, talking about STD’s can make one or both participants in the conversation uncomfortable.
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Green Choices: The Need for Healthier Personal Care Products
The environment has always taken a backseat to my passion for women’s rights and reproductive justice. Sure, it’s good to recycle, use less water, walk or use public transportation instead of driving,...
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What we’ve been reading
Several new guidelines out from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology this week: to reduce repeat cesareans, to limit Pap tests to over-21s, and to have a first visit as a teen for...
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What We’ve Been Reading
Prop 8 is unconstitutional! Marriage equality FTW! Congratulations Justice Elena Kagan! Trista says women have now reached critical mass; I’m just glad that we’ve finally reached one-third of any of...
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Sex, Lies, and CPCs
In my work as an organizer I confront misinformation about abortion care every single day; I know the facts, I’ve read the research, and I make it a point to be correct when I speak, because what does...
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What We’ve Been Reading
This Wednesday was the 90th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment! Let’s break it down School House Rock style. Hm, I guess a lot of you may not know School House Rock – this week...
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World AIDS Day
Wednesday was World AIDS Day. PPHP sponsored a students-only event at Stony Brook University, “The Front Lines of HIV Care and Prevention,” with Delta Sigma Theta sorority and Alpha Phi Alpha...
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I Stand With Planned Parenthoood
I stand with Planned Parenthood because they stood with my mom when she was a scared pregnant teen who had nowhere else to go, and thanks to the dedicated staff at that center she gave birth to a...
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Political Shots and Scare Tactics
As a new mom, I’m no stranger to “vaccine nuttiness”, as I like to call it. Even if I had never heard of any controversies surrounding vaccines before my daughter was born, any visit to the...
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