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September 9: Fetal Alcohol Awareness Day
September 9 is Fetal Alcohol Awareness Day. At 9 a.m. the bells of the St. Augustine Cathedral in downtown Tucson will ring, so we can remember on the ninth hour of the ninth day of the ninth month not...
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Meet Our Candidates: Dave Joseph for State Representative, LD 11
The Arizona general election will be held on November 6, 2012, with early voting starting on October 11. After the many recent legislative challenges to reproductive health care access, both nationally...
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A Conversation with Faye Wattleton: Part 1, Historical Perspectives
Faye Wattleton reflects on her career in the family-planning movement. Image: Planned Parenthood of Southern Arizona, 1981 Faye Wattleton was president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America from...
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A Conversation With Faye Wattleton: Part 2, Belief and Mission
Ms. Wattleton speaks out against George H.W. Bush’s gag rule, which banned any mention of abortion in federally funded family-planning programs. Faye Wattleton was president of Planned Parenthood...
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A Conversation With Faye Wattleton: Part 3, Family Planning and Race
Faye Wattleton (left) with Maxine Waters and Jesse Jackson, 1992 Faye Wattleton was president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 1978 to 1992. She was generous enough to speak to me on...
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A Conversation With Faye Wattleton: Part 4, Looking Back
Faye Wattleton was president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 1978 to 1992. She was generous enough to speak to me on January 7, 2013, and throughout the month of February we’ve shared...
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Meet Our Candidates: Jo Holt for State Senator, LD 11
The Arizona primary election will be held on August 26, 2014, and early voting began on July 31. Reproductive health care access has been under attack, both nationally and statewide, but Planned...
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The State of Girls in the World: International Day of the Girl Child
Content note: This article discusses sexual assault and violence against women and girls. October 11, 2014 will be the third International Day of the Girl Child. UNICEF began this day in 2012, a day...
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Hobby Lobby: Birth Control and the Law
Birth control activists Fania Mindell and Margaret Sanger inside the Brownsville birth control clinic, circa October 1916 In 1964, when I was a 16-year-old college freshman, my Bronx pediatrician asked...
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Center for Arizona Policy: A Witches’ Brew of Spine-Tingling Politics and...
For nearly 20 years, CAP has been injecting their extreme interpretations of Christian doctrine into Arizona law. Photo: Ryan Godfrey The Center for Arizona Policy is a far-right Christian organization...
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Brookline Clinic Shootings: December 30, 1994
BROOKLINE, MASS., DEC. 30 — A gunman dressed in black opened fire with a rifle at two abortion clinics here this morning, killing two female staff workers and wounding at least five other people. This...
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Out of Limbo: An Interview With Kent Burbank
Kent Burbank (left) and his family Marriage equality for same-sex couples has come about partly through court decisions finding against states that have passed laws or constitutional amendments...
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Book Club: Living in the Crosshairs
Living in the Crosshairs is an important and terrifying book that was published last year by Oxford University Press. Its authors are David S. Cohen, a law professor at Drexel University who also sits...
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Reproductive Justice?
President Bill Clinton stands by as Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sworn in as associate Supreme Court justice in 1993 When Justice Antonin Scalia died on February 13, 2016, it was the death of more than just...
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Meet Our Candidates: Ken Clark for State Representative, LD 24
The Arizona primary election will be held on August 30, 2016. Reproductive health care access has been under attack, both nationally and statewide, but Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona has...
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Meet Our Candidates: Ralph Atchue for State Senator, LD 11
The Arizona primary election will be held on August 30, 2016. Reproductive health care access has been under attack, both nationally and statewide, but Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona has...
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Meet Our Candidates: Corin Hammond for State Representative, LD 11
The Arizona primary election will be held on August 30, 2016. Reproductive health care access has been under attack, both nationally and statewide, but Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona has...
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Are There Any Survivors in the Room? A Story for Gynecological Cancer...
“Are there any survivors in the room?” I don’t remember why I was there, but it was a discussion of cancer. I looked around at the people who had raised their hands. It wasn’t until the speaker moved...
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October 11 Is the Day of the Girl
Photo courtesy Hannah Hildebolt October 11 is the International Day of the Girl Child, a United Nations observance begun in 2011. The day draws attention to the state of girls in the world, which is...
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The Trump Card
Image adapted from photo by Venkataramesh Kommoju The Republican presidential candidate is in trouble. It began when a hot mike tape from Access Hollywood surfaced in which Donald Trump told Billy Bush...
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