Planned Parenthood To End Abortions In 3 Arizona Cities : NPR. “I think we’ve really done women a disservice in all parts of the state by imposing rules that have no medical significance and just creating barriers,” said Bryan Howard, president of Planned Parenthood of Arizona.\ duh The move came a week after an Arizona… [Read more…]
August 2, 2011
and so here ya go! Days where really good news is abundant is rare, and I believe it shouldn’t be taken for granted. I had read these articles separately throughout the day, and yet the happiness i felt didn’t surface until i read them all together. In a row. It’s awesome! i truly believe in… [Read more…]
June 6, 2011
Indiana Abortion Showdown Could Cost State $4.3 Billion. Seriously I am impressed, enraged, and a little afraid of the organized assault on women’s reproductive rights. That the debate around what a woman can do with her body is being taken to such an extreme says a few things to me, namely how polarized our nation… [Read more…]
May 3, 2011
Cutting Planned Parenthood and Fixing the World — Feministe. It’s so wonderfully worded. this young woman is a bad ass. If she was 21 I’d want to take her to a bar. This isn’t abstract or distant or irrelevant to my life; it’s real and it’s scary and it’s fucking disgusting. The fact that the… [Read more…]
April 29, 2011
The Associated Press: Daniels to sign bill defunding Planned Parenthood. The war against women rages on. Apparently Roe v Wade doesn’t matter to these old men who really know what’s best for women: “We will now suffer the consequences of lawmakers who have no regard for fact-based decision making and sound public health policy,” she said.… [Read more…]
April 9, 2011
From Sociological Images, a discussion on the racialized abortion campaigns: Many women have abortions because they cannot afford to raise a(nother) child. They would bring the fetus to term if only they weren’t all-but-crushed under the burdens of under-served neighborhoods, shitty public education, a dearth of jobs that pay a living wage, a criminal justice… [Read more…]
March 28, 2011
first, from feministing: They say if you say something often enough (and/or loud enough) people will start to believe it. I feel like it’s harder to get certain information to stick… it’s hard to compete with propaganda out there. At the same time the GOP says we need to defund planned parenthood (which, for the… [Read more…]
March 22, 2011
sanity from a male republican senator. Regarding reproductive healthcare. thank you jebus! “I support family planning and health services for women,” Brown, a Bay State Republican, said in a statement. “Given our severe budget problems, I don’t believe any area of the budget is completely immune from cuts. However, the proposal to eliminate all funding… [Read more…]
March 4, 2011
Pro-Life Rep: Many GOPers Will Vote Against Spending Bill If It Doesn’t Defund Planned Parenthood | TPMDC. Because they’re not really focused on fiscal responsibility, but enforcing their moral standards (generally based out of religious beliefs) on the rest of the population. This is not democracy, it’s bullying.
August 18, 2011
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