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		<title>IN Senate Committee Votes to Restrict Medical Abortion Pill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the Indiana Senate health committee voted 5 to 4 to further restrict women’s access to RU-486, or the abortion ...]]></description>
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		<title>AZ Congressman Introduces Bill to Restrict Abortion in DC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arizona Representative Trent Franks (R) introduced the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act this week that would prohibit ...]]></description>
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		<title>‘Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry’ Edited by Julie R. Enszer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean to be a Jewish writer? To write about the Jewish Lesbian experience? How do we passionately ...]]></description>
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		<title>Book Lovers: Winter Gothic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haunted Potter
For those of us who longed for a romantic pairing between Harry and Ron at Hogwarts in the Harry ...]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion Rate Stalls Worldwide</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Induced Abortion: Incidence and Trends Worldwide from 1995 to 2008,” a study conducted by the Guttmacher Institute and the World ...]]></description>
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		<title>WA Gains Necessary Vote to Pass Same-Sex Marriage Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Feminist Majority Foundation</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the first public hearing on same-sex marriage in Washington state, Senator Mary Margaret Haugen (D) announced that she will ...]]></description>
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		<title>‘Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life’ by Vivian Gornick</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The personal is political” has become so familiar a coinage, over the last forty years of liberation politics, that we ...]]></description>
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		<title>Julia Roberts, Mark Ruffalo and Alec Baldwin Cast in Film Adaptation of  ‘The Normal Heart’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Film and television screenwriter, director, and producer Ryan Murphy’s film adaptation of Larry Kramer’s play The Normal Heart is moving forward with an all ...]]></description>
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		<title>VICTORY: Health &amp; Human Services Decides in Favor of Women’s Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Feminist Majority Foundation</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon, US Department of Health &#38; Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Obama administration released their decision ...]]></description>
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		<title>Anniversary of Roe v. Wade</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Feminist Majority Foundation</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Events have been scheduled around the country to commemorate the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. For those living near ...]]></description>
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		<title>Feminist Majority Applauds HHS for Rejecting Religious Exemption for Contraceptive Coverage</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.friendsofwildiris.org/2012/friends-of-wild-iris/feminist-majority-foundation/feminist-majority-applauds-hhs-for-rejecting-religious-exemption-for-contraceptive-coverage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Feminist Majority Foundation</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services announced today the Obama Administration will not broaden the religious exemption for ...]]></description>
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		<title>Feminist Book Club</title>
		<link>http://blog.friendsofwildiris.org/2012/headline/feminist-book-club/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago &#8211; Ms. Magazine compiled a list of the of the Top 100 Non-Fiction Feminist Books&#8230; ...]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Trust Women Week—Join the Online March</title>
		<link>http://blog.friendsofwildiris.org/2012/friends-of-wild-iris/feminist-majority-foundation/its-trust-women-week-join-the-online-march/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.friendsofwildiris.org/2012/friends-of-wild-iris/feminist-majority-foundation/its-trust-women-week-join-the-online-march/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Feminist Majority Foundation</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2011 brought an unprecedented assault by anti-abortion and anti-contraception state legislatures on women’s reproductive health—135 reproductive rights laws were enacted ...]]></description>
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		<title>National Book Award: Innovations in Reading</title>
		<link>http://blog.friendsofwildiris.org/2012/reviews/books/national-book-award-innovations-in-reading/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.friendsofwildiris.org/2012/reviews/books/national-book-award-innovations-in-reading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lambda Literary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each year, the National Book Foundation awards a number of prizes of up to $2,500 each to individuals and institutions—or ...]]></description>
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		<title>Operation Rescue Launches Anti-Abortion Website</title>
		<link>http://blog.friendsofwildiris.org/2012/friends-of-wild-iris/feminist-majority-foundation/operation-rescue-launches-anti-abortion-website/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.friendsofwildiris.org/2012/friends-of-wild-iris/feminist-majority-foundation/operation-rescue-launches-anti-abortion-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Operation Rescue, an extremist anti-abortion group, has launched a website – abortiondocs.org – which lists the photographs and addresses of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Presidential Candidates Attend Personhood USA Forum</title>
		<link>http://blog.friendsofwildiris.org/2012/friends-of-wild-iris/feminist-majority-foundation/republican-presidential-candidates-attend-personhood-usa-forum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Feminist Majority Foundation</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul via webcast spoke at a forum in South Carolina, hosted ...]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Mixtape: ‘Dancer from the Dance’–Malone’s Imaginary Disco Set</title>
		<link>http://blog.friendsofwildiris.org/2012/reviews/books/literary-mixtape-dancer-from-the-dance-malones-imaginary-disco-set/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The folks at Flavorwire have an ingenious recurring column in which they create musical mixtapes for assorted literary characters. Each inspired post is dedicated ...]]></description>
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		<title>‘Cow’ by Susan Hawthorne</title>
		<link>http://blog.friendsofwildiris.org/2012/reviews/books/cow-by-susan-hawthorne/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lambda Literary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Red cow, blue cow, black cow. A golden calf and a moon-jumping heifer. Figures that often grace pastoral landscapes or ...]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Russell: Merging Fiction and Fact</title>
		<link>http://blog.friendsofwildiris.org/2012/reviews/books/paul-russell-merging-fiction-and-fact/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Though Sergey’s not the genius his brother was, I did want Sergey’s prose and imagination and the novel he’s enshrined ...]]></description>
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		<title>Four Ultrasound Bills Introduced in VA</title>
		<link>http://blog.friendsofwildiris.org/2012/friends-of-wild-iris/feminist-majority-foundation/four-ultrasound-bills-introduced-in-va/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four bills have been introduced in the Virginia General Assembly that, if passed, would require that women seeking abortions first ...]]></description>
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