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		<title>Heroine of the Week: Janet Howell</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2012/01/heroine-of-the-week-janet-howell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brava to Virginia State Senator Janet Howell who made a statement this week when she proposed an amendment to Senate Bill 484, which would require a pregnant woman to undergo an ultrasound and have the option to view her fetus before having an abortion.  Howell&#8217;s amendment would have required men to undergo a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before getting a prescription for erectile dsyfunction drugs. Proponents of the mandatory ultrasound before abortion argue its part of informed consent – making sure a woman seeking an abortion knows her legal rights and alternatives, and to be sure the confused little lady really understands what she is undertaking. Perhaps Howell just wanted to make sure that men, distressed by their sexual dysfunction, were clear about the risks of Viagra and the choices they had – like abstaining. Or maybe, she just wanted to make the point that no one should control another person’s body or create legislation requiring unnecessary and invasive procedures on another human being. Not surprising, Howell&#8217;s amendment failed and the bill passed the Senate Education and Health committee. However according to the Richard Times-Dispatch, a new amendment, &#8220;being formulated by Democrats would require a physician to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Support of Reproductive Rights on Roe v. Wade Anniversary</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2012/01/in-support-of-reproductive-rights-on-roe-v-wade-anniversary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Feminist Forte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blog For Choice Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling which made abortion legal in the United States, we are participating in NARAL Pro-Choice America&#8217;s Blog for Choice Day by answering the question: What will you do to help elect pro-choice candidates in 2012? It&#8217;s an important question. According to NARAL, in 2011 26 states enacted anti-choice measures. And in the GOP presidential primary race, four anti-choice candidates are vying for the nomination. In the good news category, on Friday the Obama administration announced it would uphold a ruling that will provide women access to birth control with no co-pays as part of the  Affordable Care Act. And today, President Obama issued a statement reaffirming his commitment to protecting a woman’s right to choose.  It read, &#8220;While this is a sensitive and often divisive issue- no matter what our views, we must stay united in our determination to prevent unintended pregnancies, support pregnant woman and mothers, reduce the need for abortion, encourage healthy relationships, and promote adoption.  And as we remember this historic anniversary, we must also continue our efforts to ensure that our daughters have the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams.&#8221; And ultimately, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Iowans Use Birth Control?</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2012/01/do-iowans-use-birth-control/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Presidential Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gloria feldt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rick santorum anti contraception]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rick Santorum opposes birth control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Santorum surges in Iowa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While former governor Mitt Romney was the technical winner in Iowa last night, Rick Santorum was the real winner, trailing Romney by only eight votes. What do we know about the man that has positioned himself well in the GOP race for the presidential nomination? We know, of course, the former Senator and Congressman from Pennsylvania opposes a woman&#8217;s right to choose. According to NARAL Pro-Choice America, Santorum cast 27 anti-choice votes in the House. And as a Senator he  authored the Federal Abortion Ban, a law that criminalizes some abortion services. But Santorum&#8217;s pro-life stance seems to go beyond the standard conservative messages about protecting the unborn. Santorum is also opposed to contraception. Of birth control he has said, “One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country. It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.” He defined those “things” in an interview a few years back (video clip below). He’s referring to sex outside of marriage. According to Santorum, birth control is harmful to women and society. “The pill made it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women Newsmakers in 2011</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/12/nine-top-stories-involving-women-in-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Feminist Forte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 year in review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Betty Ford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breastfeeding in public]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren enters Mass Senate race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equal pay]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[women's reproductive rights under attack in 2011. Speaker John Boehner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another year almost over, another few cents narrowing the wage gap. Here’s a look back at some of the stories that impacted or involved women in 2011: Reproductive rights under attack: Three days into the year we wrote, &#8220;Congressman John Boehner (R-Ohio) will become Speaker of the House Wednesday and women should pay attention. &#8230; In fact, he represents a significant threat to women’s reproductive rights.&#8221; And indeed 2011 saw some of the most aggressive attacks on women&#8217;s reproductive health. Ashley Portero at the International Business Times has a round up of the staggering number measures related to reproductive health introduced in 2011 including: H.R. 3 with its disturbing &#8220;forcible rape&#8221;  language (as if all rape isn&#8217;t forcible?) H.R. 358, the Protect Life Act, or as some are called it, the Let Women Die Act. The Heartbeat Bill, which would ban abortions after the first detectable fetal heartbeat- before many women even know they are pregnant. Two fetuses were witnesses at an Ohio legislative committee contemplating this bill. And of course, the attack on Planned Parenthood. Rape and intimate partner violence a very real threat: Speaking of women&#8217;s health, in November the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released The National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Year in Review: Ignorant Legislators and Heroines of the Week 2011</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/12/year-in-review-ignorant-legislators-and-heroines-of-the-week-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Betty Dukes takes on Walmart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Bachmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Joe Pitts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Throughout the year, Hello Ladies features Heroines of the Week &#8211; women making headlines for all the right reason, and the Ignorant Legislators &#8211; our elected officials who are getting it all wrong. Here&#8217;s who made the lists in 2011. To be sure, there were more candidates than we had time to feature. Betty Dukes and Gabrielle Giffords were heroic, each in their own ways. And Representative Joe Pitts deserves his place on our list of legislators who just don&#8217;t get it. Who is on your list? You can add more names to our list at The Skinny Scoop. 2011 Heroines and Ignorant Legislators Year in Review]]></description>
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		<title>If I Were Santa</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/12/if-i-were-santa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[gender gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ratify CEDAW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence against women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[work life balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[working mothers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I were Santa, I&#8217;d be making my list and checking it twice. And here are the gifts I would give: For Our Daughters: The gift of self-esteem and positive role models The mass media perpetuates a message that women and girls’ value comes from beauty and sexuality – and it affects us. Sixty-five percent of women and girls have an eating disorder. Eighty percent of the op-ed pages are dominated by men. The number of women in senior management positions globally has gone from 24 to 20 percent from 2004 to 2009. For Corporate America: More women in leadership positions There is a large, and growing, body of research connecting women at the tops of organizations to a strong bottom line performance. However, women comprise 53 percent of new hires, but only 37 percent of managers, 26 percent of vice-presidents, and just 14 percent of executive committees. &#160; For Working Mothers: Flexible work arrangements &#8230; and a day of rest The life of a working mother is challenging. Flexible work arrangements give parents the ability to work more flexibly and better manage the challenges of work and family. For Working Families: Passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Passes Dangerous Abortion Bill</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/10/house-passes-dangerous-abortion-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[federal funding for abortion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 358, the Protect Life Act, or as some are calling it, the Let Women Die Act. While the Senate is unlikely to take up the bill and The White House has implied the President would veto it, it is still chilling to think Congress could pass a bill that, in essence, allows hospitals to refuse to perform emergency abortions &#8211; even when a woman&#8217;s life depends on it. The bill also denies federal funding to any health care plan that includes abortion coverage, which could restrict even private insurance choices for women. To see how Congress voted, click here. All but two Republicans voted for the bill and 15 Democrats joined them. Here&#8217;s the roll call. And here is Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi arguing against the bill earlier today.]]></description>
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		<title>Legislation Watch: House Takes Up Protect Life Act Today</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/10/legislation-watch-house-takes-up-protect-life-act-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking a break from talking about the need to do something about job creation, the House of Representatives will take up the ridiculously named &#8220;Protect Life Act&#8221; or H.R. 358 today. The bill was introduced by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Penn.) who claims the legislation&#8217;s intent is to prevent federal funding for abortion &#8211; even though federal funding of abortions is already prohibited. But H.R.358 would also allow hospitals that receive federal funds to deny an emergency abortion even if it would save a woman&#8217;s life.  So the &#8220;Protect Life Act&#8221; doesn&#8217;t really protect lives at all. The White House issued  a statement yesterday suggesting the President would veto the bill if it makes it that far. &#8220;The Administration strongly opposes H.R. 358 because, as previously stated in the Statement of Administration Policy on H.R. 3, the legislation intrudes on women&#8217;s reproductive freedom and access to health care and unnecessarily restricts the private insurance choices that women and their families have today. &#8220;Longstanding Federal policy prohibits Federal funds from being used for abortions, except in cases of rape or incest, or when the life of the woman would be endangered. The Affordable Care Act preserved this prohibition and included policies to ensure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignorant Legislator of the Week: Michele Bachmann</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/10/ignorant-legislator-of-the-week-michele-bachmann/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Ignorant Legislator award goes to Congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann. Earlier this week, Bachmann introduced  the Heartbeat Informed Consent Act, legislation that would require abortion providers to perform an ultrasound on a woman and “make the heartbeat of the unborn child visible and audible to its mother” prior to performing the abortion. In a statement Bachmann said, “An unborn baby’s heartbeat can be detected as early as five weeks after conception and ultrasound technology is an amazing medical advance that provides a window for a pregnant woman to see her unborn child. My legislation will not only enable this technology to be better used to protect life, but also to ensure that a woman who is considering abortion is finally able to give full and informed consent.” I take issue with legislation that forces the use of ultrasound technology on a woman planning to terminate a pregnancy especially when it is not always available for a woman who wants to carry a pregnancy to term. My first pregnancy ended in a “missed” miscarriage, which, according to the American Pregnancy Association is, “when embryonic death has occurred but there is not any expulsion of the embryo. Signs of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New From Around the Web</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/08/new-from-around-the-web/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a roundup of stories impacting women for your weekend reading. This one in The New York Times Magazine on parents expecting twins who chose to abort one fetus is sure to generate discussion. You probably heard that Nafissatou Diallo, who has accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault, has filed a civil lawsuit. Did you hear Law &#38; Order plans to air an episode based on the case? Speaking of DSK, Bloomberg BusinessWeek has an article on whether the IMF looked the other way and ignored the former executive&#8217;s behavior toward women. Cleveland.com reports on misogynist, serial killer Anthony Sowell who was sentenced to death for murdering 11 women. TechCrunch reporting on the new Verizon Android phone targeted toward women, cites unofficial reports that the droid is &#8220;pretty&#8221;, has dangly charms and less functionality than the standard variety. Ugh. And in case you were wondering if FOX moderators were being sexist when they asked Michele Bachmann during last night&#8217;s GOP debate if she would be a submissive wife as president, read this piece from RH Reality Check. &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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