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 [...]
Senate Republicans, in their relentless tirade on women’s bodily autonomy, have blocked yet another pro-choice judicial nominee by President Obama, Edward Chen. Barack nominated the U.S. Magistrate for a federal judgeship in San Francisco. Chen happens to be a former attorney for ACLU and vehemently pro-choice. To little surprise, this caused an uproar among Senate [...]
If you joined the CREDO campaign to send a coat hanger to the Democrats in Congress who voted in favor of the Stupak amendment, you may have received a flyer in the mail recently about CREDO’s cell phone service. I’ve been a CREDO long distance customer since 2000. I like knowing that a [...]
Feminist Books for Five-Year-Olds – The Guardian
One Family’s Struggle With Abortion & the Catholic Church – Truthout
We’re Pro-Choice Because We Have a Vision – Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
An Abortion Mission – Abortioneers
A big thank you to everyone who participated in Saturday’s Choice Chat with Carol Adams. We had about 35 people in the chat room, and let’s just say that the questions people shared were both insightful and exciting. I think that everyone who came to the chat was willing to examine things from a new [...]
Several University of Oklahoma students this week are taking a stand on Oklahoma’s newest abortion law, enacting the statistical abortion-reporting act. In a response to this legislation, the students planned Reproductive Rights Week and on Friday, students will focus the energy on to the Oklahoma State Capitol on November 6, at 12pm, with a [...]
Rihanna Talks for the First Time – Poponthepop
Dr. Carhart Back in the Cross Hairs – RH Reality Check
Pro-Choice Activist Nun Rebuked by Her Order – Chicago Tribune
Margaret Sanger in Her Own Words – Words of Choice
52 Things You Can Do For Transgender Equality – National Center for Transgender Equality
Teen Vogue Features Pregnant Cover Girl – [...]
Join Feminists For Choice for our next choice chat. Our guest will be Carol Adams, the author of The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. Carol’s book has been called “ground-breaking” and “pioneering.” Many say it is an underground classic, which Adams supposes means that lots of people know and love [...]
I revisited Choice this week and found myself having trouble deciding which story to choose until I came across Kate Maloy’s A Normal Woman. With all the goings on with the Tiller murder, this story got me thinking on how if the right would just listen to women and maybe investigate a little bit as [...]
Here’s some more pro-choice trivia for your fabulously feminist Friday!
There are 3 million unintended pregnancies each year, which constitutes 50% of all pregnancies. Approximately half of unintended pregnancies result in abortions each year.
68,000 women die worldwide each year do to unsafe abortions.
The United States has the highest rate of STI’s (sexually transmitted infections) in the [...]
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