On November 16, 2009, the Baltimore City Council took a giant step forward for women’s rights when they passed legislation on a 12-3 decision to stop Crisis Pregnancy Centers from misleading women into their services. The law, which still must be signed by the mayor of Baltimore, “would affect four centers in the [...]
Pro-choice activists have been up in arms lately about not only the Stupak-Pitts amendment, but the increasingly violent framework in which the abortion debate has been situated. Interestingly enough, the climate seems to be quite the opposite in South Korea. Unlike in the United States, where doctors have been threatened daily and even killed for [...]
The New York Times had a story yesterday about the generational divide that exists in the pro-choice movement. Author Sheryl Stolberg argued that women who have come of age in a post-Roe world take their reproductive rights for granted.
“Here is a generation that has never known a time when abortion has been illegal,” said [...]
Battle Over Abortion Moves to the Senate – Women’s e-News
The Pros and Cons of the Vaginal Ring – National Partnership for Women & Families
Idolize This! Feminism – Womanist Musings
CDC Releases “Abortion Surveillance” Report – RH Reality Check
Abortion’s New Battleground – Newsweek
Happy Thanksgiving from Feminists For Choice. We’re spending the holiday with our loved ones, so tune in on Monday for the latest pro-choice news. In the mean time, here’s a little guide from Planned Parenthood to help you navigate the table-side discussions that will inevitably turn to the health care debate.
In the spirit [...]
Thanksgiving is upon us and once again mothers and wives are being targeted as overbearing naggers. Despite the fact that women perform most of the tasks involved in throwing a holiday celebration, women are seen as the enemy.
One New York Times article, Food, Kin and Tension at Thanksgiving, described a variety of family members that scold, [...]
On this morning’s NPR, I listened to “experts” debate the definition of terrorism and then if the term should be applied to the Ft. Hood shootings. The outcome of the debate was that the “experts” believe that Major Nidal Hasan’s actions were both an act of terrorism, and the actions of a mentally ill [...]
Teen Girls Bear the Burden of STD’s According to CDC – RH Reality Check
Fess Up, Faux Clinics – Broadsheet
The Anti-Abortion Protest That Wasn’t – Broadsheet
Health Care Will Reform Birth Control, Too – The Wichita Eagle
Broaching Birth Control With Afghan Mullahs – New York Times
This week’s safer sex question:
I’m 17 and very worried that I may be pregnant. I’ve been taking Loestrin 24fe for about 3 months now, and I have a steady boyfriend. I’ve never fully had unprotected sex, but sometimes we use a form of the withdrawal method (but only for about a minute or so). Otherwise, [...]
Attorneys for Scott Roeder, the man accused of killing Dr. George Tiller, may not be able to use the defense that Roeder acted “out of necessity.” According to the Associated Press:
[Roeder] told The Associated Press on Nov. 9 that he shot Tiller to protect unborn children and he planned to present a necessity defense [...]
