Remembering Sept. 11, 2001 In A Different Way
Self-loathing former slut Dawn Eden has decided to use the fifth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center to smear Planned Parenthood and do a little slut-shaming on the side: Five years ago this week, I was standing outside the upper West Side headquarters of the American Red Cross of Greater New York, [...]
...read more33 Years After Roe
Yesterday was the 33rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that legalized abortion nationwide and finally gave women back the basic right to control their own bodies and shape their own destinies. Check out all the good Blogging for Choice that went on yesterday, and I apologize for the day-lateness of this [...]
...read moreOn Abortion in Indiana
I really need to check my phone messages. If I did, I would have known that Spike Lee spoke on campus last night and that my friends called more than once to see if I would make it. Alas, a nap was priority #1 at the time. I didn’t realize that last night was the [...]
...read moreA Different Anti-Choice Strategy
The New York Times has an article today on the quieter side of the anti-choice movement — Crisis Pregnancy Centers. The article makes the centers sound a whole lot peachier than they actually are, but can’t avoid the fact that the very purpose of these centers is to lie, mislead, and coerce women. It starts [...]
...read moreWhat I Hadn’t Heard About Alito
Need a quick break from fuming over The Roe Bandito?
...read moreDistancing Roe from Griswold
Jessica is liveblogging the Alito hearings and every major news outlet is covering it. We’ve established, not surprisingly, that Alito is being completely non-committal in his responses about the right to privacy and abortion rights. He says he’ll keep an open mind, but that the Supreme Court does have the right to overturn precedent. Thanks [...]
...read moreMore Unintended Pregnancies Carried to Term
The previous post is loosely choice-related, but here’s my real Blog for Choice post of the week: This has already been blogged about quite a bit, but I think it’s worth mentioning nonetheless — and it’s worth pointing out the “pro-life” reaction to it. The story, basically, is that more American women are giving birth [...]
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