Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation backed down from its decision to cut funding for Planned Parenthood, which provides abortion and birth control services, following a massive outcry by supporters of the world’s largest breast cancer charity.
The State of My Union is the State of My Uterus
January 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Gender Across Borders January 23, 2012 This post is by Aphra Behn of Guerilla Girls On Tour! While on tour this year, I felt an uncomfortable cramping near my crotch. It was somewhere between Arkansas and Oklahoma that I realized what it was. The government was tightening its grip on my uterus. In Kansas, my uterus signed Continue Reading …
Abortion: Worldwide Rate Stopped Falling After 2003
January 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The New York Times By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Published: January 23, 2012 The world’s abortion rate, which began declining steadily in the 1990s, has stopped falling, according to a new study. The study, published online last week in The Lancet, was done by the World Health Organization and the Guttmacher Institute in New York, Continue Reading …
Moira McQueen: ‘Choice’ as a weapon for aborting babies based on sex
January 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
National Post Canada Jan 18, 2012 – 9:53 AM ET In 1994, I had three papers accepted for the Canadian Bioethics Society’s conference in Ottawa, which I duly attended. One of the papers addressed some ethical concerns raised by the practice of abortion on the basis of sex selection. The Royal Commission on Reproductive Technologies Continue Reading …
On Roe v. Wade Anniversary, Obama Vows To Protect Women’s Choice
January 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Huffington Post Laura Bassett January 22, 2012 Drawing a stark contrast between himself and the Republican presidential candidates on the issue of women’s reproductive rights, President Barack Obama released a statement on Sunday, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, reaffirming his commitment to protect a woman’s right to choose. As we mark the 39th Continue Reading …
What We Left Behind: Girdles, Silence and Illegal Abortion
January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
MS Blog January 18, 2012 by Suzanne Braun Levine When I went to work at Ms. in 1972, I wore a matching pink skirt and blouse—and a girdle. I had just gotten married and was, therefore, not able to get a bank loan without my husband’s approval. I had given up playing basketball (half-court for girls) in Continue Reading …
Half of All Abortions Now Unsafe, Study Finds
January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
IPS By Mathilde Bagneres UNITED NATIONS, Jan 19, 2012 (IPS) – The proportion of abortions deemed unsafe rose from 44 percent in 1995 to almost half (49 percent) in 2008, according to a new study released Thursday. Launched in London, “Induced Abortion: Incidence and Trends Worldwide from 1995 to 2008″ by the Guttmacher Institute and Continue Reading …
Anti-Choice Group Invokes Roe V. Wade To Defend 14 Year Old’s Right to Be Pregnant
January 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Care2 by Robin Marty January 5, 2012 Anti-choice activists have been working hard across the country to pass parental permission and notification laws for pregnant teens seeking abortions, including tightening up teen’s abilities to use judicial bypass to obtain an abortion without informing their parents. So it’s not very often that you hear a Continue Reading …
The Personhood Amendment: Rights for eggs but not for women
November 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Daily Kos
by Kaili Joy Gray
October 30, 2011
[Human_zygote] The famous Monty Python song Every Sperm is Sacred is about to become a sad reality in Mississippi. Amendment 26, also known as the Personhood Amendment, is simple on its face:
The term ‘person’ or ‘persons’ shall include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof.
HPV Vax Available Without Parental Consent Is Most Irresponsible Decision This Gov. Made
October 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Cafe Mom
The Stir
Posted by Jacqueline Burt
on October 11, 2011 at 2:37 PM
[Stir photo] When it comes to teens and reproductive health, the official government stance has always been one of willful ignorance: “Teens doing what? Preposterous!Run along now and have a lollipop, that’s a good girl.”
Which is why I find the sudden federal push behind the HPV vaccine Gardasil rather suspect. (Briefly, in case you were in a coma until 5 minutes ago, Gardasil protects against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus, which is a leading cause of cervical cancer.) First there was the big campaign to make the vaccine mandatory for girls, an initiative that ticked off the GOP in a huge way (for all the wrong reasons, unfortunately).
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