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Forthcoming HBO Special on Dr. Tiller

By Eesha Pandit | Published: October 26, 2011
The brains behind True Blood has another show up his sleeve. Alan Ball, who’s the executive producer of many of my friends’ top DVR selection, is working on a new show called Witchita. The new drama will be based on Dr. Tiller,  who was, for many years the figurehead of political and cultural tensions. Ball is [...]
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Quick Hit: Texas judge blocks key parts of sonogram bill

By Samhita | Published: August 31, 2011
Some good news: a judge in Texas ruled that parts of a sonogram bill that was slated to pass in Texas would actually be unconstitutional, specifically forcing physicians to show a woman the sonogram against her will. via Reuters. The law, which had been due to go into effect on Thursday, was a major part [...]
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Wasserman Schultz: “Stop playing politics with women’s lives.”

By Samhita | Published: August 24, 2011
“I have never felt my right as a woman was more threatened than I do today,” said Democratic National Committee chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz at a Planned Parenthood rally yesterday who emphasized that she was 6 years old when Roe v. Wade was passed and we will not go back to that time. She [...]
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Shorter Steve King: “We are losing our ability to force women to give birth”

By Samhita | Published: August 3, 2011
No, that’s not exactly what Representative Steve King said last night when he made the faulty statement that following the recommendations of the IOM to cover birth control in all new health insurance plans will bring the end of civilization, but he might as well have. In his own words, They’ve called it preventative medicine. [...]
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What’s your debt ceiling got to do with me?

By Samhita | Published: July 28, 2011
I just spent the last hour trying to piece together what I understand of the debate around the debt ceiling, as both an exaggerated crisis and the potential for a really big problem, to explain what it is and why we should care but then I got confused (and I even took economics as an [...]
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