Posted in abortion on Jan 22nd, 2008
Today is Blog for Choice day.
How are you commemorating the 35th anniverary of Roe vs. Wade?
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Posted in abortion on Jan 14th, 2008
On Thursday, January 22nd, celebrate the 35th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade by participating in Blog for Choice day.
This year’s topic: tell us, and your readers, why it’s important to vote pro-choice.
Sign up here.
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Posted in abortion, adoption, pregnancy, teenager on Jan 13th, 2008
by Caitlin Flanagan
THE movie “Juno” is a fairy tale about a pregnant teenager who decides to have her baby, place it for adoption and then get on with her life. For the most part, the tone of the movie is comedic and jolly, but there is a moment when Juno tells her father about her [...]
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Posted in abortion, nyc on Aug 17th, 2007
Photo by Konrad Fieldler
A Manhattan Mini Storage billboard on Manhattan’s West Side Highway is again stirring up both opprobrium and approbation.
A large sign at 44th Street and Twelfth Avenue shows a wire hanger with the words “Your closet space is shrinking as fast as her right to choose.” (more. . . )
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Posted in abortion, women on Aug 1st, 2007
By Anna Quindlen
Aug. 6, 2007 issue - Buried among prairie dogs and amateur animation shorts on YouTube is a curious little mini-documentary shot in front of an abortion clinic in Libertyville, Ill. The man behind the camera is asking demonstrators who want abortion criminalized what the penalty should be for a woman who has one [...]
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Posted in abortion, birth control, health, women on May 19th, 2007
By ATUL GAWANDE
One statistic seems to me to give the lie to all the rhetoric about abortion, and it’s this: one in three women under the age of 45 have an abortion during their lifetime. One in three. All politicians — Democrat and Republican — say they want to make abortion at least rare (as [...]
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Posted in abortion, politics, sex on May 19th, 2007
Chris Hedges (former Middle East NYT Bureau Chief) writes:
The denial of contraception, as is well documented, increases the number of unwanted pregnancies and abortions. And abortion is never going to go away. If it again becomes illegal, the rich, as in the past, will find ways to provide abortions for their wives, mistresses and girlfriends, [...]
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Posted in abortion, law, legal on Apr 26th, 2007
BY JAMES T. MADORE james.madore@newsday.com
April 26, 2007
ALBANY - Responding to concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn its decades-old Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision, [...]
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Posted in abortion, feminism, news, women on Apr 18th, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long-awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench.
The 5-4 ruling said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman’s constitutional right [...]
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Posted in abortion, birth control on Apr 10th, 2007
By Elizabeth Wood
Please email them and request that they issue a correction ASAP
In Time Magazine article about the pro-choice movement in Mexico, about about anti-abortion politics in Latin America more generally, the author describes Emergency Contraception as “abortion inducing.”
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Posted in STDs, abortion, united kingdom on Mar 14th, 2007
A bid to force doctors offering abortion or contraception advice to under-16s to inform the child’s parents has been rejected by MPs.
Tory MP Angela Watkinson argued that current sex education encouraged girls to have sex before they were ready.
But MPs voted by 159 to 87 to retain the current guidelines guaranteeing confidential advice to under-16s.
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