New York Governor David Paterson signed the Protections for Reproductive Health Care Act last week significantly increasing protective measures for reproductive health providers in the state. The new legislation not only increases legal penalties for perpetrators of violence, it also expands protection to volunteers and paid employees of women’s health clinics.
Lynne Slepian, the wife [...]
Abortion Foes Seek to Use Health Care Reform to Curb Access – USA Today
e-Bay Removes Last Auction Items for Roeder – Roeder Watch
Bible from Roeder Auction Used to Justify Violence Against Abortion Providers – RH Reality Check
Colorado Personhood Campaign Has Financial Problems – RH Reality Check
Future Abortion Providers – The Abortioneers
Justice for All – Oklahomans [...]
AZ Court Rules in Favor of Inmates’ Rights – Feminist Campus
The Link Between Women, Violence, and HIV – My Joy Online
Funding for HIV/AIDS Difficult to Find – SOS Children’s Villages
Medical and Social Aspects of Abortion – Dr. Warren Hern
Check out this GREAT interview with Gloria Feldt where she answers the question, “Why are you a [...]
Last week someone threw a Molotov cocktail into the parking lot of a Nebraska Planned Parenthood clinic. According to Action 3 News Omaha:
Lincoln police say someone attempted to throw a Molotov cocktail at the local Planned Parenthood clinic, but missed.
Instead, police say, the makeshift explosive fell just short of the building and burned pavement [...]
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The wing nuts have been making death threats against Democratic senators because they’re run out of logical arguments. Not that the debate has ever been logical – I mean, death panels . . . yeah, that’s totally beyond the realms of logic. [...]
A judge declared at a Tuesday hearing that there is enough evidence against Scott Roeder to move forward to trial. Roeder is accused of killing Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider from Kansas. As I noted yesterday, Roeder is unfortunately not the first person to murder an abortion provider. Paul Hill assassinated [...]
On Tuesday I posted Jimmy Carter’s brave op-ed distancing himself from the Southern Baptist Convention on the Moral Courage Project blog. The post prompted some interesting dialog on the site. I was particularly struck by the words of Erin:
Although it seems that disassociating with an organization that discriminates against women is the right thing to [...]
NARAL Pro-Choice America recently sent out a tidy little email reminder of what is at stake in the fight for reproductive rights in the U.S. For me, the email is compelling because they are clear that the War on Choice is not simply one of laws and legislative battles, but it is literally a [...]
The Task Force recently reported that the Senate may be voting on Hate Crime Legislation as soon as this Thursday as an amendment to the Department of Defense appropriations bill. That means we are literally steps away from pushing through an initiative that would seek to decrease violence among the LGBTQ community. The statistics surrounding [...]
I’m at a loss of words, to be honest. Part of me isn’t surprised by this language, particularly because its coming from Ann Coulter, and especially because it’s on the O’Reilly factor.
What was particularly disgusting for me was the fact that she referred to Dr. Tiller’s death as a “late term abortion.” It’s scary to [...]
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