Risky abortions, for privacy’s sake
Dominican women in New York commonly turn to ulcer medication and other off-label meds to induce abortion privately. The article is an interesting one because it reveals how reproductive justice isn’t just about rights and liberties; it’s about expanding that framework to make sure that everyone has equal access to health care, and that such [...]
...read moreBundling Services
Because I work for one of those annoying companies that is always trying to push bundled services, I was really amused that anti-choice bloggers are trying to push the “bundling” sales phenomenon when it comes to Planned Parenthood’s numbers, like counting health services is comparable to your phone and cable provider’s stats. The 3 percent [...]
...read moreNPR Backs Out of Interview with Abortion Provider
In response to the WaPo article I wrote about this November, NPR’s Talk of the Nation got in touch with my charity of choice, Medical Students for Choice, to interview a doctor who is part of MS4C and did opt to perform abortions unlike the student profiled in WaPo. Apparently the interview with Dr. Rachel [...]
...read morePro-Lifers love babies so much they want to defund Planned Parenthood so that you get pregnant
Because they love babies so much, anti-choice activists are going after Planned Parenthood — one of the nation’s largest providers of abortion-prevention methods and education. The majority of Planned Parenthood’s budget goes to contraception, STI testing and treatment, and cancer screening. Only three percent of PP’s budget is spent on abortion services, and none of [...]
...read more“Post-Abortion Syndrome” is a political tool
And not a medical condition, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins. That doesn’t stop ABC from illustrating their story with a photo of a woman with her head in her hands next to a picture of an ultrasound. That isn’t to say that no women ever experience depression after abortion, or that women who experienced [...]
...read morePanty-Sniffing AG Slammed by Kansas Supreme Court
Good news. For those with short memories, former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline is the rabid anti-choice guy who thought it was a good idea to use his position to go digging through patients’ private medical records in order to suit his political agenda. The court had this to say about him: Kline exhibits little, [...]
...read moreHow Not to Have an Abortion
Natural Liberty: Rediscovering Self-Induced Abortion Methods by Sage-Femme! (Sage-Femme Collective) When I was phone banking for the No on 4 campaign, we followed a script that I can still more or less recite from memory: “Prop 4 requires parental notification before a teen terminates a pregnancy, which looks good on paper, but actually puts young [...]
...read moreNewsflash, jackasses: Planned Parenthood is a health care provider
People are all in a tizzy over the fact that Planned Parenthood of Indiana is offering gift certificates for health care services. Anti-choice bloggers are predictably claiming that Planned Parenthood is offering “gift certificates for abortion,” and that the gift certificates “would be more accurately described as death certificates.” What they neglect to mention that [...]
...read moreThe Choices We Have
The choices we have depend on our ability to take advantage of them, and this is particularly important when it comes to reproductive choice. Frankly, a lack of doctors willing and able to perform the procedure will render the right to abortion meaningless. WaPo follows one medical student’s journey and just how difficult it is [...]
...read moreAbortion Causes Illegal Immigration
Yeah… we’ve heard this one before, and it’s no less ridiculous this time around.
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