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Do Forced Birthers Think Having a Yeast Infection Is a Sin?
Just in case you weren’t positive that the Bishops-fueled right-wing freakout about birth control has fuck-all to do with “pro-life,” Forced Birth protestors in Wisconsin are protesting in front of a...
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Fetal Personhood: Juridical Persons Are Not Natural Persons, And Why it Matters
My latest article for RH Reality Check has been published: According to personhood activists, the purpose of state-level personhood efforts is to grant constitutional recognition of prenatal life as...
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Roe v. Wade 40th Anniversary: Reproductive Justice for Women’s Health
Via Planned Parenthood: This year marks the 40-year anniversary of Roe v. Wade. That’s 40 years of protecting every woman’s fundamental right to make her own personal medical decisions. Forty years of...
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Silence breaking: Please tell a story about your experience with abortion.
Yesterday I posted an op/ed that once ran in several newspapers around the country about my own abortion. I believe, very strongly, that our stories are collectively the single most powerful tool we...
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New Mexico to Eliminate Abortion Rape Exceptions by Declaring the Fetus...
Welp, now that the election and inauguration are over, it’s time to get back to the GOP’s number one priority: criminalizing abortion. States are already gearing up for the War on Women 2013 —...
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The South Dakota Legislature Really Hates Abortion
If you live in South Dakota and you want to terminate your pregnancy, you’re pretty much screwed. There’s only one abortion clinic in the entire state, and it’s located in the southeast corner (in...
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John Boehner Wants to Make the Hyde Amendment Permanent.
In case you were wondering whether Republicans learned any lessons from the lady-shellacking they took during the November 2012 election, when women showed up in droves to reject the party of “Hey...
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Proposed Florida for Life Act is Really Ridiculously Unconstitutional
Florida Senator (R-Obvs.) Charles van Zant introduces the Florida Life Act year after year after year. I knew that it was a wildly unconstitutional bill, but I’d never realized just how...
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What’s the Matter With Bans on Race- and Sex-Selective Abortion? Everything.
My most recent article for RH Reality Check was published last week. Or was it the week before? Hey, is that a squirrel over there?! A particularly pernicious narrative about abortion rights is one...
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Jill Stanek is Exploiting a Family’s Tragedy to Promote Her Forced Birth Agenda
Jill Stanek and her band of merry Forced Birthers have invaded the privacy of a woman (“Marie”), who recently died during a late-term abortion procedure in Maryland, and are violating HIPAA and common...
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Mississippi is Bringing Personhood Back
Fetus Firsters in Mississippi are reviving the personhood fight — again. In 2011, voters rejected the notion that eggs are people, too. (Our own papal @asiangrrlMN wrote about that here.) But the Fetus...
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North Dakota to Restrict Abortion to Point of Ridiculousness
Not to be outdone by the Arkansas legislature, which overrode Governor’s Mike Beebe’s veto of a bill banning abortion after 12 weeks, the North Dakota legislature has passed what is now the most...
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ABL and @Katie_Speak Discuss Abortion Rights on ‘Dangerous Conversation’
A few weeks ago, Katie Klabusich (aka @Katie_Speak) and I appeared on Dangerous Conversation with host Scott Legere. Topics ranged from reproductive rights, reproductive justice, abortion rights,...
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Plan B and Ella Are Not Abortifacients, But False Claims May Hold Up In Court
***My latest for RH Reality Check was published yesterday. Read the full post here. An amicus brief recently filed by Bart Stupak and Democrats for Life of America in the Newland v. Sebelius birth...
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Legacy of Tiller’s Murder: Anti-Choice Terrorists Threaten Staff at Wichita...
Army of God posted an alarming video of a recent conversation with Scott Roeder, the convicted murderer of Dr. Tiller, in which they discuss the re-opening of Dr. Tiller’s clinic, and stopping abortion...
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Setting Rubber Fetuses on Fire Is Bad Idea Jeans
But why? I don’t even: An anti-abortion student group in Roswell, New Mexico thought it would be a good idea to pass out hundreds of small rubber replicas of fetuses to students at two high schools. As...
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