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Within 7 days of the Global Gag rule being overturned low income women in the U.S. are the first cut in 'concessions' to the right wing factions of our country :
House Democrats are likely to jettison family planning funds for the low-income from an $825 billion economic stimulus bill, officials said late Monday, following a personal ( Read more... )

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/conscience-will-guide-senators/2008/09/02/1220121234450.html
POLITICIANS will be allowed to follow their conscience on a proposal that Medicare funding be removed for abortions carried out between 14 and 26 weeks.
There is a facebook group about the issue -- Guy Barnett get your hands off my right to choose! -- ( Read more... )

A feminist appeal to former Clinton supporters:

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This article over at mute magazine is a really good read.

In the context of the recent abortion debates in the UK - and in anticipation of further, much tougher ones as we contemplate an incoming right-wing government - I thought this is a really useful article. Basically it places the immediacy of the usual quite simplified (and very bourgeois) ( Read more... )

There is a far better way - and it is something we should be pursuing anyway. It is called feminism. Where women have control over their own bodies - through contraception, abortion and general independence - they choose not to be perpetually pregnant. The UN Fund For Population Activities has calculated that 350 million women in the poorest ( Read more... )

A new law passed in Oklahoma requires doctors to perform a vaginal ultrasound and to describe the fetus in detail to women seeking abortions.

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(for folks outside of the US, Mike Huckabee is currently running to be the Republican Party's nominee for President ( Read more... )

The Michael Moore movie 'SiCKO' might for some be spearheading the issue of universal health care coverage in the United States, but it is an issue that has been an been building momentum for decades. After all, When Hilary Clinton was the 'first lady' she introduced a plan for universal health care coverage. The labor movement in the United ( Read more... )

For those of you who have given birth, been pregnant, or been close to someone who was, I have a question ( Read more... )

So, I work for a gynecologist in New York City. She is an awesome woman, an amazing boss, and a great doctor. I e-mailed her the link to write to Target regarding the fact that they support their pharmacists' choices to fill or not fill prescriptions for Plan B, or the morning after pill.

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