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Anti-choice battle being waged on Canadian streets

The group 40 days for life has once again set itself up on Bank Street in Ottawa, across the street from the Morgentaler abortion clinic.

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Sasha: Great eggspectations

Dear Sasha,

My partner and I really want to have a baby (she would carry) and we've talked about the option of having my brother donate his sperm.

I really love the idea of our baby having my genes. I'm worried that the relationship between my brother and the baby, and me for that matter, would be difficult or confusing, and I guess I'm wondering if you know of any others that have gone this route.

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Anti-choice researchers in Chile try to hide illegal abortion -- and women who die from it

Maternal death clock unveiled in New York, 2010. Photo: Amnesty International/Flickr

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Anti-choice researchers recently published a dangerously flawed study that examined various factors associated with Chile's declining maternal mortality rate, and concluded -- incredibly -- that the legal status of abortion has no influence on maternal deaths in Chile, a country that completely prohibited abortion for any reason in 1989.

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The F Word

Abortion and reproductive rights -- still under attack

March 19, 2012

| Laura Wood speaks with Barbara Hestrin about recent political challenges to women's reproductive rights and Nicole Deagan talks with an abortion counsellor about working in an abortion clinic.

Length: 36:46 minutes

International Women's Day: Coming out for reproductive justice

Mercedes Allen

| March 8, 2012

Today is International Women's Day. It's a day to stand together, to call for rights when they're lacking, and to defend rights when they're in danger.

People's Health Radio

Nine Month Blues: A look at women's reproductive rights in Canada

June 23, 2011

| From birth control, to abortion, to access to information and education, what's happening with sexual health for women in Canada?

Length: 01:13 minutes

Weekly Pulse: DIY abortions on the border, Pawlenty screws Minnesota on sex ed

Lindsay Beyerstein

| September 1, 2010

Women along the U.S.-Mexico border are buying black market Misoprostol to induce abortions, according to a new report by Laura Tillman in the Nation. The drug is easily available over the counter in Mexico.

Gen Y's biological clock talk taboo

J. Maureen Henderson

| May 11, 2010

I've hesitated about tackling this particular topic, but with the recent proximity of Mother's Day and the 50th anniversary of The Pill, I figured there was never going to be a better time to address it. My hesitation stems from a reluctance to drag biology into the equation and to bring up some unpleasant home truths that can't be advocated or educated away.

Weekly Pulse: Dodd and Dorgan to retire

Lindsay Beyerstein

| January 6, 2010

Two Democratic senators unexpectedly announced their resignations on Tuesday. Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Chris Dodd (D-CT) announced that they would not seek reelection when their terms expire in 2010. Hopefully, health care reform will already have passed by then, but the departure of these senators will have implications for health care policy.

Weekly Pulse: Sotomayor an enigma on abortion

The Media Consortium

| May 27, 2009

By Lindsay Beyerstein, TMC MediaWire Blogger

Yesterday, Sonia Sotomayor became the first Latina and the third woman ever nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. She is currently a federal judge on New York's 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. Born to Puerto Rican immigrant parents and raised by her mother in the housing projects of the South Bronx, Sotomayor went on to attend college at Princeton and law school at Yale. George H.W. Bush appointed her to the U.S. District Court in 1991 and Bill Clinton "promoted" her to the 2nd Circuit in 1998.

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