TW / CN: Abortion, Forced Birth, Pregnancy

What Patronizing False Concern Looks Like
By Amanda Marcotte
Source: The Raw Story > Pandagon

At XX Factor today, I have a post up explaining how the anti-choice movement is trying to shift gears, because their habit of ignoring women or portraying women who have abortions as dumb sluts isn’t ( Read more... )

By Brian Alexander, NBC News Contributor

A dramatic new study with implications for next month’s presidential election finds that offering women free birth control can reduce unplanned pregnancies -- and send the abortion rate spiraling downward.

When more than 9,000 women ages 14 to 45 in the St. Louis area were given no-cost contraception for ( Read more... )

Thought this was a great idea, but let me know if you have heard differently. Please and thanks =)

>Rock the Slut Vote

I will be angry.

I will be angry because I am not allowed rights to my own body.

I will be angry because I am not acknowledged even in issues that concern me intimately.

I will be angry because I am jailed for being a victim and trying to bring my attacker to justice.

I will be angry because I am unworthy of protection.

I will be angry because I am not ( Read more... )

It’s called a “wrongful birth” bill and it’s all about preventing women from having an abortion, even if it kills them. The Arizona Senate passed a bill this week that gives doctors a free pass to not inform pregnant women of prenatal problems because such information could lead to an abortion ( Read more... )

The highest teen pregnancy rates in the U.S. are in low-income areas, and a surprising new study finds that in these communities, teens also have the most difficulty accessing emergency contraception. Researchers found that pharmacists in low-income areas frequently deny 17-year-old girls access to Plan B ( Read more... )

UN states told they must legalise abortion ( Read more... )

((MODS: For some reason it will let me add other tags, but it won't let me add the 'usa' one ( Read more... )

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration issued new standards on Monday that require health insurance plans to cover all government-approved contraceptives for women, without co-payments or other charges ( Read more... )

MOSCOW - President Dmitri A. Medvedev has signed into law the first steps intended to restrict abortion since the collapse of communism, the latest salvo in what is beginning to resemble the fierce divide over abortion in the United States ( Read more... )