“Never Necessary”
NPR has a great story up about one of the families leading the charge against the South Dakota abortion ban. Tiffany Campbell was pregnant with much-wanted twins when she and her husband learned that the fetuses had a rare defect wherein they shared the same blood circulation, threatening not only their lives, but Tiffany’s as [...]
...read moreIt’s Crunch Time in South Dakota
The good news is that a new South Dakota poll on Initiated Measure 11, the proposed abortion ban, shows the public is opposing the ballot initiative. The bad news is that we’re only ahead by a hair: On behalf of Daily Kos, Research 2000 conducted a South Dakota Poll about Initiated Measure 11 from October [...]
...read moreActually, People Who Bomb Abortion Clinics Are Messengers From God
Liss has the transcript if you’re looking for some additional context.
...read morePro-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 [...]
...read morePro-Life?
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 [...]
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