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RH Reality Check

RH Reality Check -- Your Community on the Web for Reproductive Health

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RH Reality Check is an online community and publication serving individuals and organizations committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights.
RH Reality Check is guided by the issues and recommendations identified in the Program of Action agreed on at the International Conference on Population and Development at Cairo in 1994. Protection is our watchword – we are contributing to the global effort to empower people with the information, services and leadership they need to safeguard their sexual and reproductive health and rights and to guard against false attacks and misinformation. RH Reality Check exists as a resource for evidence-based information, provocative commentary, and interactive dialogue.
My name is Dawna and I am a monthly contributor to RH Reality Check as well as the new RHRC MySpace page moderator. Please check out the RHRC blog at www.RHRealityCheck.org and let us know what you think!

My Interests

Access to Abortion
Contraception
International Organizations
Maternal Health
Sexuality Education
STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention
Women’s Rights

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I'd like to meet:

1. You! Registering as a member of RH Reality Check opens up the opportunity to comment on articles, hear from us through email and share your thoughts in other ways. We want to hear from you and be able to keep in touch!

2. Your friends! Tell your friends who are also interested in speaking up to counter the misinformation coming from the oppositon and encourage them to share their ideas with us—the more voices in this conversation, the better!

3. Bloggers! Do you regularly blog on these issues on another site? We’d love to include your blog posts here, or invite you to blog with us too as a guest blogger. The blogosphere is big and we’re trying to find the most insightful, fun and informed progressive people interested in this important work. Please let me know if this sounds interesting to you.

4. Organizations ! We celebrate the work of the outstanding network of organizations working in the field—our mission is to underscore and complement this work, not duplicate it. We seek to highlight the work of leading organizations in this field and to call attention to academic, policy and field successes. We urge readers to learn more about these wonderful organizations and to get involved in them.

Movies:

Yesterday, A Closer Walk, The Education of Shelby Knox,The Abortion Diaries

Lightning Interrupts Rudy Talking About Abortion

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Television:

Grey's Anatomy, Project Runway, L Word, Friends

Heroes:

Women's ENews

My Blog

Fresh Focus: Sex Ed Digital Video Contest!

Jenna Bush admitted on national television, directly contradicting her father's policies, that young people need education in order to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted i...
Posted by RH Reality Check on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:49:00 PST

Is Morality the New Religion for Giuliani and Edwards?

By Emily Douglas, RH Reality Check on August 30, 2007 When Sen. John Kerry chose then-Senator John Edwards to be his running mate in the 2004 presidential election, he said of Edwards, "'I've seen Joh...
Posted by RH Reality Check on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:47:00 PST

Sexual Moralizing Spreads AIDS

By Andrea Lynch, RH Reality Check, Nicaragua & England on August 16, 2007 Helen Epstein, scientist-turned-journalist and author of The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against AIDS,...
Posted by RH Reality Check on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:10:00 PST

Just The Facts Ma-am

Pro-choice presidential candidates are missing a huge opportunity to win over an unlikely voting bloc: pro-life voters. The debate over reproductive rights has for decades existed in the abstract; it'...
Posted by RH Reality Check on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:37:00 PST

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Elizabeth Edwards Speak to Planned Parenthood Supporters

From http://imoneinamillion.com/: Less than 24 hours ago, something amazing happened.  For the first time in our organization's history, two leading presidential candidates and the wife of anothe...
Posted by RH Reality Check on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:37:00 PST

Abortion and Manhood

Arthur Shostak on July 12, 2007 - 8:40am Three challenges are at the heart of the men and abortion matter. First, what does it mean to be a man? Second, what does it mean to be a sexually active man?...
Posted by RH Reality Check on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:48:00 PST

Candidates Must Offer a Plan for Ending AIDS

By Phill Wilson, Black AIDS Institute on July 5, 2007 - 8:30am When the Democrats gathered on June 28 for the first of Tavis Smiley.. Edwards ignored the actual question and talked instead about AIDS...
Posted by RH Reality Check on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:08:00 PST

Let's All Get Tested for HIV

By Tyler LePard, RH Reality Check on June 28, 2007 - 8:50am Since the advent of HIV, great progress has been made in education, awareness, testing technology and access to careyet HIV is still stigm...
Posted by RH Reality Check on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:12:00 PST

Putting an End to the Albatross Myth

By Jessica Arons, Center for American Progress on June 25, 2007 - 9:00am In her June 22nd New York Times op-ed, "Why Pro-Choice Is a Bad Choice for Democrats," Melinda Henneberger sends a mixed messa...
Posted by RH Reality Check on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:56:00 PST

Green Sex Toys

Looking for environmentally safe sex toys? Check out this article from msnbc.com by Brian Alexander and let us know what you think! When sex toys turn green  for health, that is: Concern about ...
Posted by RH Reality Check on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:45:00 PST