http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/knit-your-congressman-vagina-contraception-abortion

Links to patterns, including the "snatchel."

ILU-486 is a short story that reminds me of The Handmaid's Tale.

EVERY PART OF YOU BELONGS TO YOU.

This of course is the slogan of our right to choose abortion or not, according to our own beliefs and needs ( Read more... )

( cartoon behind the cut )

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We thought the Handmaid's Tale was fiction? Maybe not in South Dakota:

Molly Ivins--Abortion Rights Go South

Our freedom of choice is rapidly disappearing even in advance of court decisions as states rush to change their abortion laws in order to get a case before the newly conservative court. Salon's broadsheet covers a case where a poor woman in Virginia, struggling to raise two children already, became depressed about her lack of abortion options and ( Read more... )