The Blessing of Abortion

“Let’s be very clear about this: when a woman finds herself pregnant due to violence and chooses an abortion, it is the violence that is the tragedy; the abortion is a blessing ( Read more... )

I'm Pro-Choice Because I Love Life

But when anti-choicers speak reverently of “life”, they don’t mean this. They imagine things that are technically alive, but have no relationship to this word---Terri Schiavo laying in bed with no brain to speak of, a mindless fetus, a fertilized egg, a stem cell. They relate to these beings, who are not really ( Read more... )

In a pro-choice facebook group, on the discussion board, someone brought up the topic of "father's rights ( Read more... )

It’s one of those damn “personhood” bills that would define fertilized eggs as persons. Even though eggs are what are mentioned, the reality is that bills like this are about granting sperm more rights than women. It’s about making sure that sperm, once released inside women, are not obstructed from impregnating a woman and maintaining that ( Read more... )

As Gloria Feldt so eloquently put it, "When you peel back the layers of the anti-choice motivation, it always comes back to two things: What is the nature and purpose of human sexuality? And second, what is the role of women in the world?" Sex and the role of women are inextricably linked, because "if you can separate sex from procreation, you have ( Read more... )

Judge Unimpressed by Rapist's Excuses

This rapist felt he should get a lighter sentence because he was the kind and gentle sort of rapist not "excessively brutal" or "overly monstrous."

Excuse me?

You rape a woman and you think you should get a lighter sentence because you were "nice" about it? (Nice constitutes covering her head, wrapping a ( Read more... )

At Personhood Conference, Anti-Choice Movement Struggles for Direction

She believes the personhood framework can be adapted to battles like abortion, stem cell research, fetal alcohol syndrome, "fetal homicide" (laws that criminalize accidental or intentional death of a fetus), and emergency contraception.

Do I need to utter the B-word again?

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Roe v. Wade recognized a woman's right to choose to have an abortion ( Read more... )

So the AllAmerican Life League has a news release that says Krispy Kreme is giving out Pro-Abortion Doughnuts.

"The next time you stare down a conveyor belt of slow-moving, hot, sugary glazed donuts at your local Krispy Kreme you just might be supporting President-elect Barack Obama's radical support for abortion on demand - including his ( Read more... )

South Carolina may expand ultrasound lawThese anti-choice fuckers already want to require women to view an ultrasound before getting an abortion. (The language says that abortion providers must give women the option of viewing the ultrasound. But the fact that it's even in there feeds into the anti-choice mythology of abortion providers being some ( Read more... )