Over the last few months there seems to be an increase in visible advertisements from the anti-choice camps. One of the more controversial is a billboard campaign sponsored by organizations like Georgia’s Right to Life and Operation Outrage. These groups have posted between 60-80 signs around the Atlanta metro area. Despite the fact these organizations [...]
Some great women’s history reads, continuing our month-long celebration of Women’s History Month!
Women Describe 70 years of liberation. The Columbian.
Gone with the Wind and Feminism. L Magazine.
Why I’m Still a Girl Guide at 18. Tribute to the Girl Scouts of America. The F Bomb
A Month of Historic Celebrations. Veteran Feminists of America.
“No one has ever given me a good reason why we should obey unjust laws.” Helen Keller, 1914.
The same year that Helen Keller made the above statement, Margaret Sanger was publishing articles advocating birth control in her journal The Woman Rebel, and knowingly breaking anti-obscenity laws by doing so.
Margaret Sanger and Helen Keller shared [...]
Guest writer Sarah Warren is a professor of modern art history at Purchase College, SUNY. She is currently writing a book about the interchange between the nationalism and the avant-garde in pre-Revolutionary Russia. She lives in New York City. These are her words.
I have had two abortions. In both cases I [...]
In late January, Scott Roeder was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Dr. George Tiller, a Kansas physician who provided abortions. Roeder was also convicted of two counts of aggravated assault for threatening two other men as he fled. Roeder’s sentencing was scheduled for March 9, but this week it was announced [...]
Abortion providers – and clinic directors, and nurses, and medical students, and clinic escorts, and volunteers* – dedicate their lives to ensuring women have access to safe abortion care. March 10th is the National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers – show your support for these amazing health care professionals!
*And probably more people I’m forgetting [...]
The pro-choice and anti-choice worlds alike have been buzzing with the news of this past week’s FBI/DEA raid of the Women’s Medical Society, a clinic here in Philadelphia that was providing abortions as well as other services in a disgustingly unsanitary and dangerous environment. I commented on this via a letter to the editor in [...]
Next to the adorable face of a black child, giant bold letters proclaim, “BLACK CHILDREN ARE AN ENDANGERED SPECIES.” The ads (there are a few different ones, but they are all along the same lines) direct the viewer to visit www.toomanyaborted.com to learn about what they see as the root of the problem–Black women in [...]
I’m not really sure what to make of Angie Jackson, a 27-year-old mother who’s live-Tweeting her medical abortion.
In an interview with blogger Jessica Wakeman at The Frisky, Angie discusses her reasons for sharing her abortion in such a public way:
“[W] what I was trying to say to people who find themselves in this position is [...]
Each Women’s History Month the portrait of Susan B. Anthony decorates classroom walls around the country. What many people this year will not realize is that a heated debate is taking place involving the life of the 19th Century suffrage leader, and of all things, whether or not she opposed abortion.
Several conservative organizations, calling themselves [...]
