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The Way to Fight Breast Cancer Is With a Vaccine — Not Another Pink Product
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But there is more to fighting breast cancer than selling pink products or wearing pink. Fran Visco, President of…
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Help Create a Tobacco-Free Generation by Shopping Tobacco-Free
Tobacco use is the nation’s number one preventable cause of death, killing 480,000 Americans and costing the nation $289 billion in health care bills and…
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How the Down Syndrome Community Sugarcoats Difficult Realities About the Condition
By David Perry Thirty years ago, Ronald Reagan declared October Down Syndrome Awareness Month. Ever since, too many efforts at awareness have relied on pictures of people…
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Stories from the field: SPLC legislation helps Louisiana youth receive second chance at school
By Eden Heilman Jessica* was a 10th-grader in a small school district outside of New Orleans when she withdrew from school because she was pregnant.…
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Who Rescues the Injured Wildlife of Southern California?
The Fund for Animals Wildlife Center—operated by The Fund for Animals in partnership with The HSUS—is an oasis in Ramona, Calif., where orphaned and other…
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Choosing to Have a Child
Two years ago, Martha Alanoca and her husband were trying unsuccessfully to start a family. In Bolivia, where Martha lives, the prohibitively high cost of…
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Seismic Shift in Rome: New Catholic Church Document Praises Committed Gay and Lesbian “Partnerships”
By Liz Halloran HRC today commended Catholic leaders meeting in Rome for using new, inclusive language in referring to the LGBT community. The preliminary but potentially…
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Obama to nominate ACLU lawyer to lead Justice Department’s civil rights division
By Sari Horwitz President Obama plans to nominate a top lawyer from the American Civil Liberties Union to head the civil rights division of the Justice…
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SPLC victorious in challenge to Alabama’s immigrant ‘scarlet letter’ law
It was a minor offense with potentially big consequences in Alabama. In November 2012, four Latino immigrants were arrested for fishing without a license –…
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SIDS, Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month
Each and every day, in communities across America, expectant moms will feel their baby’s first kick; parents will listen to their newborn’s first cry; and…
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A Psychotic Episode Shouldn’t End in a Jail Cell
By Kara Dansky Michelle Mata wants to be treated the way you would want your mom to be treated. She’s an aunt and a neighbor.…
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For the First Time Ever, HRC Scores Members of Congress on Marriage Equality
By Stephen Peters Today HRC announced for the first time ever members of Congress were scored on their support for marriage equality as part of…
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