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“Pro-Choice” Americans at a record low
By Jill on 5.25.2012 According to a recent Gallup poll, the percentage of Americans who identify as “pro-choice” is at an all-time low of 41%. By contrast, 50% of Americans ID as pro-life. Of course, the pro-life/pro-choice monikers don’t really say much about one’s actual views on the legality or morality of abortion. Lots of […]
Irish Government Defeats ‘Woman’s Life At Risk’ Abortion Bill
April 20, 2012
by Steve WilliamsApril 19, 2012 The Irish Government has led a 111-20 defeat on a vital abortion access bill that would legislate a woman’s right to seek a termination if her life is in danger from the pregnancy. The bill, a private member bill put forward by Clare Daly of the Socialist Party, aimed to […]
Sign the petition against ABORT67
April 18, 2012
Posted on 17 April 2012Holly PeacockWVoN co-editor As the abortion debate continues in the UK, the focus for many pro-choice supporters is now on the actions of anti-abortion group ABORT67. The activist group, which is based in Brighton on England’s south coast, “seeks to change the way we think about abortion” and wants the reversal […]
No One Called Me a Slut
April 15, 2012
By SUSAN HEATHPublished: April 14, 2012 TWO weeks ago, a bomb went off outside a Wisconsin abortion center. In recent years, several states have passed or tried to pass laws requiring women seeking legal, constitutionally protected procedures to first undergo medical examinations. A young woman has been called a slut after testifying in favor of […]
Volunteer Abortion Funds Ramp Up in New York, Nationally
April 13, 2012
Reblogged from Feministe By Mary Lou Greenberg, cross-posted from On The Issues Magazine.4.12.2012 When two Barnard college students arrived to escort patients into a New York City abortion clinic one winter day in 2001, they had no idea their experience would affect the lives of over 700 women. And that number grows daily. As the […]
Anti-abortion climate ‘will deter new generation of doctors’
April 2, 2012
British Pregnancy Advisory Service attacks politicisation of abortion and warns of impact on future healthcare Ben Quinn and Sarah Boseley guardian.co.uk, Sunday 1 April 2012 The anti-abortion vigil near the British Pregnancy Advisory Service’s Bedord Square clinic, central London. Photograph: Corbis A new generation of doctors will be put off from becoming involved in abortion […]
How the “Pro-Life” Movement Puts Women Behind Bars
March 24, 2012
March 17,2012 In Alabama, the claim that eggs, embryos and fetuses have separate legal rights has led to the jailing of 60 women. Numerous organizations and leaders who identify themselves as pro-life have assured the public that their efforts to re-criminalize abortion and establish the unborn as separate legal persons will not result in the […]
Revealed: The best and worst places to be a woman
March 4, 2012
An Independent on Sunday investigation to mark International Women’s Day unearths some surprising results… Sarah Morrison Sunday 04 March 2012 When more than half of the world’s population wakes up on Thursday – the 101st International Women’s Day – it will be hard to know whether to celebrate or give in to despair. A British […]
Abortion rights: what’s wrong with these pictures?
February 17, 2012
Tell us whether you feel these panels making choices on women’s reproductive rights are missing a crucial something Jessica Reedguardian.co.uk, Friday 17 February 2012 I want you to look at the following photographs and think about what they represent for a minute or two. Take your time – can you think of anything missing from […]
Komen vs. Planned Parenthood—What’s Going On? -/- The Susan G. Komen Foundation debacle and the US establishment
February 4, 2012
By Ellen SweetFebruary 3, 2012 Immediate outrage in the social media greeted the Komen foundation after it defunded breast cancer screening by Planned Parenthood. Ellen Sweet explores what’s behind its puzzling turn-about. Dr. Susan Love calls for rejecting political divisiveness and working to prevent breast cancer. Photo: Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation Why would an […]
Komen vs. Planned Parenthood—What’s Going On? -/- The Susan G. Komen Foundation debacle and the US establishment
February 4, 2012
By Ellen SweetFebruary 3, 2012 Immediate outrage in the social media greeted the Komen foundation after it defunded breast cancer screening by Planned Parenthood. Ellen Sweet explores what’s behind its puzzling turn-about. Dr. Susan Love calls for rejecting political divisiveness and working to prevent breast cancer. Photo: Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation Why would an […]
Reproductive rights and the Republican primary
January 31, 2012
The extreme wing of the Republican Party wants to pass a law that would deprive women of their personhood. Rose Aguilar27 Jan 2012 According to Medical Students for Choice, even though abortion is legal in the US, 87 per cent of all counties and 98 per cent of all rural counties have no abortion providers […]
Reproductive rights and the Republican primary
January 31, 2012
The extreme wing of the Republican Party wants to pass a law that would deprive women of their personhood. Rose Aguilar27 Jan 2012 According to Medical Students for Choice, even though abortion is legal in the US, 87 per cent of all counties and 98 per cent of all rural counties have no abortion providers […]
Abortion: No return to the bad old days
January 28, 2012
Tuesday 24 January 2012by Louise Raw The decision by the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) to allow ads for post-conception advice services has the usual suspects in a lather. It’s no use in wearily pointing out that pregnancy advice agencies actually give counselling, rather than automatic compulsory abortions to anyone who walks through their […]
Abortion: No return to the bad old days
January 28, 2012
Tuesday 24 January 2012by Louise Raw The decision by the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) to allow ads for post-conception advice services has the usual suspects in a lather. It’s no use in wearily pointing out that pregnancy advice agencies actually give counselling, rather than automatic compulsory abortions to anyone who walks through their […]
Gender issues - Human rights 
May 27, 2012
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