As a result of naive short-term economic thinking, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey has vetoed a bill that would allocate 7.5 million dollars for family planning clinics providing life saving reproductive and sexual health care services to thousands of uninsured women. According to Gov. Christie, his priority is to cut spending and decrease the [...]
As many of you may already know, Governor Schwarzenegger proposed an updated budget earlier this month that includes drastic cuts in Family PACT funding. The logic being that in an economic crisis, it’s more important to cut short-term costs than protect long-term economic prosperity. Not only is that logic bankrupt on face, it also ignores [...]
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, abortion is at a ten year high in Illinois. There are a couple factors being credited for the 5% increase in abortion rates since 2007. The first of those reasons being the plummeting economy. Dave Mckinney reports, The state’s main provider of abortion services has heard from its clients that [...]
Last week I shared a clip from NBC’s “Today Show,” where California’s First Lady Maria Shriver discussed the changing roles of men and women. Shriver has co-authored a new report, called “A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything,” about the impact that the economic downturn has had on women in the US. Women have taken fewer job [...]
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Patients in El Paso were greeted with somber news when they arrived at Planned Parenthood today. All 6 of the Planned Parenthood clinics in the city have closed due to financial problems. According to the El Paso Times: The organization’s interim executive director, Analinda Moreno, announced the shutdown Friday. “Advising the staff about the closing [...]
