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		<title>Guest post: What’s a woman to do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Feminist Forte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linda tarr whelan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post, by Linda Tarr-Whelan, first appeared on Mom&#8217;s Rising. Here&#8217;s the link to the original. Health care for women is in the news these days. But what does it all mean?  Having just researched for my new book what different decisions emerge when 30% women are at the table, I can’t help but wonder what would have happened if Congress were made up of 30% women, instead of 17%.  But more on that in future posts! For today, I’m riveted by news stories that a “very prestigious independent medical panel” has recommended big changes in our health care routines.  As a colon cancer survivor and former nurse, it leaves me with more questions than answers. They talked about preventing deaths from breast cancer, but then told us to cut out several key steps we have learned to take. We have walked, done relays, worn pink ribbons and educated ourselves to take practical steps:  do breast self-exams, have the mammograms we need after the age of 40 and regular doctors’ visits. Could these common-sense precautions really be unnecessary?  Really?. First I went to the American Cancer Society, to see what they say at www.cancer.org.  The chief medical officer is very [...]]]></description>
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