Pro-Life Feminism: Oxymoron?
I’m pretty late on getting to this AlterNet article Can You Be a Feminist and Anti-Abortion?, but I just read it and thought it was worth discussion. It’s an interview with Jennifer Baumgardner about her new book Abortion and Life, and includes a decent-sized excerpt from it on this very topic. I’ll let you read [...]
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Kristof is so, so close to being right on: The Bush administration this month is quietly cutting off birth control supplies to some of the world’s poorest women in Africa. Thus the paradox of a “pro-life” administration adopting a policy whose result will be tens of thousands of additional abortions each year — along with [...]
...read moreOn Those Supposed “Rape Exceptions”
Trigger Warning Last Sunday morning when I was in South Dakota we received the Argus Leader newspaper, which contained this article detailing the proposed abortion ban and laying out the “pros” and “cons” of the bill based on what each side has been saying. It was way too much for my blood pressure to deal [...]
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South Dakota Live Action Camp
As I noted, I spent the weekend in Sioux Falls South Dakota, working with South Dakota Healthy Families to fight Initiated Measure 11, which would ban virtually all abortions in the state. You probably remember that in 2006, anti-choicers got the legislature to pass a bill that would have banned abortion, even in cases of [...]
...read moreIf Roe Goes
Linda Hirshman has a great piece up in the Washington Post about the realities of Roe going. One thing she points out is that the face of the United States post-Roe would be considerably different than pre-Roe. But it’s not 1972. The climate then was one of growing sympathy for women seeking abortion, triggered in [...]
...read moreFighting The South Dakota Abortion Ban
I will be leaving bright and early tomorrow morning for Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Through Planned Parenthood, I received a scholarship to head out there for a Live Action Camp, where we’ll be fighting Measure 11, the ballot initiative aiming to outlaw abortion in the state. Sadly, I do not have a laptop. And in [...]
...read moreIMPORTANT: Time To Send Your Comments To HHS Is Running Out
I have previously written about the dangerous proposed Department of Health and Human Services rule that would endanger women’s access to reproductive health care. The rule, if instated, would allow health care workers to prevent women from knowing all of their health care options, including those regarding birth control — and would call government-funded providers [...]
...read moreAnti-Choicers About to Change Your Google Experience
From the BBC: Google is to change its policy on adverts about abortion following a legal challenge from a Christian pressure group. It had refused a Christian Institute advert, saying it did not allow the advertising of websites with “abortion and religion-related content”. The institute threatened to use British equality laws to contest the decision. [...]
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Nice! Mac of Pesky Apostrophe is hosting a fundraiser for Medical Students for Choice: After Roe v. Wade, hospitals stopped seeing a lot of injuries and deaths from illegal abortions and eventually most hospitals stopped performing them. As a result of this, as well as political pressure and fear of being targeted by anti-choice whackadoodles, [...]
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Well, as long as we’re speaking slowly.
“No more dead women from clandestine abortions” Right-wing blogger Gold-Plated Witch on Wheels links to my Joe Biden post, and has a pretty typical response to my argument about anti-choicers and fertilized eggs. My argument is this: Anti-choicers claim that life begins at the moment of fertilization, and that a fertilized egg is “an individual [...]
...read moreThanks, Joe.
I’m totally cool with Joe Biden’s personal belief that life begins at conception. It’s a view that makes sense, morally and scientifically, to a lot of people. I personally think it’s more accurate to say that fertilization is a pivotal moment in the long arc of the biological development of any individual human being — [...]
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