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		<title>&#8220;Neanderthal Chris&#8221; Jones&#8217; Bill Passed House</title>
		<link>http://thewomenspost.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/neanderthal-chris-jones-bill-passed-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kathyinblacksburg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Women's legislation - VA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Note: This article is cross-posted at RaisingKaine.com.]
One just can&#8217;t afford to be sick.  While we weren&#8217;t looking, Neanderthal Del. Chris Jones’ (R-Suffolk) monstrous bill (HB 1126) passed the House (68 to 31)  and is in Committee (Education and Health) in the Senate!  Del. Jones wants to felonize women having either an abortion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewomenspost.wordpress.com&blog=632707&post=85&subd=thewomenspost&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Final anti-choice bills to be heard this week</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Thursday at 8:30am, the Senate Education &#38; Health committee will consider the following bills. The descriptions are from a legislative update I received from Planned Parenthood:

HB 894 requires any medical facility providing 25 or more abortions a year  to comply with the regulatory requirements of an ambulatory surgery center.
HB 1315 requires that an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewomenspost.wordpress.com&blog=632707&post=84&subd=thewomenspost&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Next?  (Hint: Stop Del. Jones, Again)</title>
		<link>http://thewomenspost.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/whats-next-hint-stop-del-jones-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Virginia primary polls have closed.  We&#8217;ve done what we can for now.  And, until the general election presents, it&#8217;s on to the next cause or worthy endeavor.  Life has a way of sneaking up on us and presenting some new wrinkles and worthy actions.  And this one will likely unite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewomenspost.wordpress.com&blog=632707&post=83&subd=thewomenspost&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ohio and Texas or Hillary&#8217;s out</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ellaella</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sources tell The New York Times Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign is &#8220;coming to terms&#8221; with her need to win the primaries in Ohio and Texas March 4, and win them comfortably, or she&#8217;s out.
More here at From Scratch.
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		<title>Caroline Kennedy for Obama</title>
		<link>http://thewomenspost.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/caroline-kennedy-for-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has endorsed Hillary Clinton in the Democrats&#8217; race, but in tomorrow&#8217;s edition, Caroine Kennedy endorses Illinois Senator Barack Obama.
In an op-ed piece called A President Like My Father, Kennedy says she has never found a president who inspires people the way her father did, but that Obama might be that president, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewomenspost.wordpress.com&blog=632707&post=79&subd=thewomenspost&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Election Tales From Outside the Trenches: Our Fractured Presidential Selection System</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kathyinblacksburg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to call what passes for our national parties&#8217; selection processes “systems.”  Selection processes are fractured, inequitable, and chaotic.  From the proliferation of so-called debates on cable news, it&#8217;s clear someone is benefiting.  Primary among the beneficiaries are big media, which tout the horse-race and &#8220;character;&#8221; lobbyists; polling groups; and campaign [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewomenspost.wordpress.com&blog=632707&post=78&subd=thewomenspost&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Planned Parenthood legislative update</title>
		<link>http://thewomenspost.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/planned-parenthood-legislative-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vjp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Planned Parenthood is following a number of bills during this legislative session. Their bill chart, indicating which bills they support and which ones they opposed, can be found here.
A few bills that they highlighted in their recent email:

HB894. Sponsored by Matt Lohr (R-26), this bill passed the House by a 60-37 vote. Prior to its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewomenspost.wordpress.com&blog=632707&post=77&subd=thewomenspost&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary&#8217;s femininity</title>
		<link>http://thewomenspost.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/hillarys-femininity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ellaella</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying.
That&#8217;s from Vogue magazine&#8217;s February editor&#8217;s letter, in which editor Anna Wintour takes Hillary Clinton to task for cancelling a photo shoot. A Vogue spokesman confirmed to Women&#8217;s Wear Daily, &#8220;We were told [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewomenspost.wordpress.com&blog=632707&post=76&subd=thewomenspost&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary takes Nevada</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vjp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MSNBC has called the Nevada Democratic caucus for Hillary Clinton. According to the exit polls, 52% of the female vote went to Clinton, while 79% of the black vote went to Obama.
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		<title>Misogyny in America</title>
		<link>http://thewomenspost.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/misogyny-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times columnist Bob Herbert&#8217;s op-ed from Tuesday was reprinted in Wednesday&#8217;s Virginian Pilot.
If there was ever a story that deserved more coverage by the news media, it’s the dark persistence of misogyny in America. Sexism in its myriad destructive forms permeates nearly every aspect of American life. For many men, it’s the true [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewomenspost.wordpress.com&blog=632707&post=71&subd=thewomenspost&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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