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<title>NYS Reproductive Health Act stalled in Senate</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 2, 2013) A key component of Governor Cuomo&apos;s 2013 agenda appears in jeopardy, as the governor concedes he does not currently have enough votes in the state Senate to bring an abortion rights bill he has championed to the floor. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21908/20130502/nys-reproductive-health-act-stalled-in-senate">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Women&apos;s health law shows a rift in NY Senate coalition</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 30, 2013) A rift is appearing in the New York State Senate&apos;s new bipartisan leadership coalition. Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos says he&apos;s strongly opposed to Gov. Cuomo&apos;s reproductive health act, saying it would lead to too many late term abortions. Pro-choice lawmakers and advocates say they disagree with the Senator&apos;s interpretation. And the leading Democrat in the leadersship council has been a strong supporter of the act. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21346/20130130/women-apos-s-health-law-shows-a-rift-in-ny-senate-coalition">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Skelos: women&apos;s health act would lead to more late-term abortion </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 29, 2013) Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos says he&apos;s strongly opposed to Governor Cuomo&apos;s Reproductive Health Act. He says it would lead to too many late-term abortions. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21344/20130129/skelos-women-apos-s-health-act-would-lead-to-more-late-term-abortion">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Catholic lobby disturbed by Cuomo&apos;s Womens Equality Act</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 21, 2013) Governor Cuomo&apos;s proposal for a Women&apos;s Equality Act has been praised by many legislators and women&apos;s groups. But not everybody is applauding. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21290/20130121/catholic-lobby-disturbed-by-cuomo-apos-s-womens-equality-act">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Senate candidate opposes abortion, even in rape cases</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Oct 26, 2012) Republican Wendy Long says she thinks abortion should be illegal in the US, even in cases when the pregnancy results from rape.Long is running for the US Senate against Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand, who is pro-choice.Abortion and rape have become major issues on the campaign trail, as more Republican Senate candidates have embraced the idea that women who are victims of sexual violence should be denied access to abortions.The latest Siena Research Institute poll, released Friday morning, shows Long winning support from just 24 percent of voters in New York. Gillibrand is winning 67 percent of the vote. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20741/20121026/senate-candidate-opposes-abortion-even-in-rape-cases">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Duprey shaken by defacement of campaign signs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Sep 24, 2012) Incumbent Assemblywoman Janet Duprey says she&apos;s disturbed by the recent defacing of some of her campaign signs along U.S. Route 11.Her opponents in the race say they sympathize with her but that unfortunately, such vandalism isn&apos;t uncommon during heated elections.Duprey is locked in a three-way race for New York&apos;s new 115th Assembly District. She&apos;ll appear on the Republican and Independence party lines on Nov. 6, Plattsburgh educator Karen Bisso is on the Conservative Party line, and Plattsburgh City Councilman Tim Carpenter is running as a Democrat. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20533/20120924/duprey-shaken-by-defacement-of-campaign-signs">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Reproductive rights advocates look to Cuomo to help pass bill</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 18, 2012) Pro-choice advocates promoting the women’s reproductive health act say they are counting on Governor Andrew Cuomo to help the bill become law this year. In Albany, Karen DeWitt reports. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19686/20120418/reproductive-rights-advocates-look-to-cuomo-to-help-pass-bill">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Planned Parenthood chief stays on message in time of change</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 4, 2012) The new president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the North Country recognizes that she  enters the job at a time when the nation’s health policies and politics are making headlines. Betsy Brown, of Lake Placid, was appointed to the position on March 19. She succeeds Kathie Wunderlich, who retired last year.Brown began her career in health care as a college-aged volunteer, helping with family planning on a student hotline. She went on to serve with the Peace Corps for two years in West Africa, and later worked in family planning in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and the former Soviet Union. Chris Morris sat down with Brown at Planned Parenthood’s Saranac Lake office last week. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19615/20120404/planned-parenthood-chief-stays-on-message-in-time-of-change">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>North Country Republican leaders worried about &quot;war on women&quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 3, 2012) The Obama administration set off a firestorm when it released rules requiring employer-provided health insurance to cover the cost of contraceptives. Leaders in the Catholic Church said the policy violates their right to religious freedom.  Meanwhile, states around the country are considering hundreds of bills addressing women’s health care: everything from forcing women to carry dead fetuses to term, to forcing women who seek abortions to go through invasive ultrasounds, to cutting funding for health clinics.  Many women say these bills violate their right to to make their own health care decisions, and will limit access to quality health care..The New York State legislature is considering a bill called the Reproductive Health Act. It codifies a woman’s right to contraception and abortion. But even so, some women see a trend, and they’re worried. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19596/20120403/north-country-republican-leaders-worried-about-quot-war-on-women-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Planned Parenthood&apos;s Kathie Wunderlich talks about life inside the abortion debate</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 25, 2011) Abortion is one of the most common medical procedures performed in America.  Women in New York state choose to terminate roughly a third of all pregnancies.   But the debate over abortion has raged ever since the practice was legalized by the Supreme Court in 1973.Kathie Wunderlich is president of Planned Parenthood of the North Country, which operates eight clinics across the region.  Last week as the Good Friday protests were getting underway, she spoke in-depth with Brian Mann. We asked Wunderlich to respond to a claim by Republican Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, who said that more than ninety percent of Planned Parenthood’s medical services involve abortions. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17530/20110425/planned-parenthood-apos-s-kathie-wunderlich-talks-about-life-inside-the-abortion-debate">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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