Demand for Home Births Rises – My Best Birth
Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules Abortion Bill Unconstitutional – Feminist.org
Abortion Tweets Met with Death Threats – Broadsheet @ Salon.com
Arizona Senate Passes Bill to Ban Abortion Insurance Coverage – AZ Capitol Times
Mexico City Approves Gay Marriage – CNN
No Surprise: Teen Birth Rates Fall After Comprehensive Sex Ed – Sacramento [...]
Abortion in Ancient Rome – Feminists For Choice
Herbal Contraception in Ancient Times – Islam Online
Women’s History Month Quiz – Feministing
After Divorce, Men’s Income Increases While Women’s Income Decreases – The Guardian
Women Entrepreneurs in Rwanda – Zuky
Is Dolly Parton a Feminist Icon? – The Guardian
Doctors’ Moral Views Influence Advice They Give to Patients – Washington Post
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 [...]
Have you ever wondered what women did to control their fertility in the days before The Pill? I know I have. A new website is hoping to shed some light on the history of birth control. 4000 Years for Choice visualizes the ancestral traditions passed down for millennia by lineages of mothers, [...]
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 [...]
Last Friday I had the opportunity to volunteer at the annual Roe v. Wade luncheon that was hosted by Planned Parenthood of Arizona. Over 450 people attended the event, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. It was really energizing to be in a ballroom that was packed with so many pro-choice supporters!
The event’s keynote speakers [...]
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 [...]
In case you hadn’t heard, CBS has recently come under fire for accepting an ad written by Focus on the Family, featuring college football phenom Tim Tebow and his mother Pam. While the specifics of the ad’s content have been kept carefully under wraps, the decision to air what will likely be a choice (pun [...]
Some excellent pro-choice news to kick start your weekend…
You can breathe a sigh of relief, because after all that worry, it turns out Scott Roeder will not be given a chance at a lesser charge in the murder of Dr. George Tiller. After the defense rested its case Thursday, the judge ruled that the [...]
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