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Published: 07/23/10

Revelations Stir New Debate Over Phoebe Prince Suicide

By  David Lohr - AOL News
Revelations Stir New Debate Over Phoebe Prince Suicide

(July 23) -- For more than seven months, the group of teens who allegedly drove Massachusetts high schooler Phoebe Prince to commit suicide have been widely scrutinized in the media and tried in the court of public opinion. But the debate over Prince's death shifted dramatically this week when a online article reported she'd had a history of emotional problems and even attempted suicide in the past. "My investigation into the events that gave rise to Phoebe's death ... reveals the uncomfortable fact that Phoebe helped set in motion the conflicts with other students that ended in them turning ...

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Published: 07/21/10

HBO Documentary '12th & Delaware': Abortion Policy at a Crossroads

By  Bonnie Goldstein - Politics Daily
HBO Documentary '12th & Delaware': Abortion Policy at a Crossroads

"The best-case scenario for women seeking abortion is that she gets a safe and legal [one] . . . But even for that girl, it's not a great day. It's not like a normal victory, you know? No one's popping champagne." Rachel Grady, co-director, '12th & Delaware' HBO Documentary Series This week my daughter Rachel has been in my thoughts almost constantly and so, inevitably, she slides into my written words. She's about to have a baby in September and our mother-daughter conversations have recently dwelled on topics of doulas and breast-milk pumps. Neither of those concepts was relevant or even ...

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Published: 04/19/10

Women in New Media: At the Top or in the Trenches?

By  Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics Daily
Women in New Media: At the Top or in the Trenches?

Here's good news! A quick tour of new and improved news-and-infotainment websites -- dozens of them -- reveals that women by the droves are successfully making the leap from old journalism to new media. Just the other day, as if to underscore this trend, a Business Insider article featured 25 media stars that have made that leap, and 13 of them -- 52 percent -- are women. Maybe that's not such a big number, but it looms large next to the pitiful number of women (six) named by the National Law Journal among the 40 most influential lawyers of the decade. Worse, the investor George Soros, the ...

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Published: 07/17/09

Why Emily Bazelon Didn't Follow Up on Ginsburg's Abortion Comment

By  Melinda Henneberger - Politics Daily
Why Emily Bazelon Didn't Follow Up on Ginsburg's Abortion Comment

I keep reading about how "bizarre'' it is that there was no follow-up question after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told Emily Bazelon, in an interview for The New York Times Magazine, that she originally assumed legalizing abortion would decrease the number of poor people having babies; she said she thought Roe v. Wade would answer "concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.'' (There was a follow-up question from Bazelon, actually, but it was this: "When you say that reproductive rights need to be straightened out, ...

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