June 2012
The Worst Attack on Women's Health in Michigan... →
[NB: Of course, this anti-choice law will affect more people than just cis women.]
Last Thursday, Republican Representative Bruce Rendon introduced HB 5711, a piece of legislation that takes every attack on women’s health in Michigan and combines them into the greatest assault on reproductive rights in Michigan history. This dangerous attack is moving rapidly and is scheduled to go before...
A letter from the American Congress of... →
The onslaught of laws focusing on denying reproductive health care rights is a concerted campaign against women. These laws are not grounded in science or evidence-based medicine.
The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists believes that access to family-planning counseling and to the full array of contraceptives is a basic and essential component of preventive health care for...
My new favorite blog (if only because it's so... →
jessicavalenti:
Via Pandagon.
This is just…
I sorta hate you for introducing this to me because the stupidity is almost too much. But I also love you because I’m transfixed and chuckling a lot.
Romney adviser dismisses women’s issues as ‘shiny... →
rabbleprochoice:
keepyourbsoutofmyuterus:
Mitt Romney’s senior campaign adviser, Eric Fehrnstrom, on Sunday said that social issues important to women, like contraception coverage and abortion rights, were “shiny objects” that were being used to distract voters. […]
“Mitt Romney is pro-life,” the senior adviser admitted to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “He’ll govern as a pro-life president,...
Romney adviser dismisses women’s issues as ‘shiny... →
Mitt Romney’s senior campaign adviser, Eric Fehrnstrom, on Sunday said that social issues important to women, like contraception coverage and abortion rights, were “shiny objects” that were being used to distract voters. […]
“Mitt Romney is pro-life,” the senior adviser admitted to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “He’ll govern as a pro-life president, but you’re going to see the Democrats...
Thousands protest at Turkey anti-abortion law plan →
Thousands of people took to the streets of Istanbul on Sunday to protest against plans by Turkey’s prime minister to bring in a new law on abortion, a practice he has called “murder”.
Women of all ages held aloft banners with slogans including “My body, my choice” and “I am a woman not a mother, don’t touch my body” as they marched to the...
“As the national onslaught of reproductive rights restrictions known as the...”
– Sarah Seltzer on Right-Wing and Anti-choice Terrorism
Great piece, Sarah!
[NB: More people than just cis women are affected and terrorized by this anti-choice behavior.]
“Instead, even as state legislators are finding new ways to interfere with a...”
– from “The Pro-Life Paradox” at The American Prospect
It’s only a “paradox” because they self-identify by the blatantly false moniker “pro-life.”
(again, h/t to SS)
[NB: More people than just cis women need and want access to abortion care]
My Jewish Abortion →
“Hypothetically speaking, what if someone doesn’t have enough money?” I asked.
The social worker looked at me, her eyes alighting on the silver Jewish star necklace I was wearing.
“Are you Jewish?”
I nodded. My face flushed, and I looked down at my shaking hands. I taught Hebrew school at my synagogue. I received the Rabbi’s Scholarship for Outstanding Work in the Jewish Community. I...
Maternity Care in a "Majority Minority" Country →
From Miriam Perez at RH Reality Check:
Two weeks ago the news from the Census Bureau that non-white children make up the majority of those under the age of one year created a firestorm of media headlines across the nation. These demographic shifts have many implications for our nation, but my first thought was this: The majority of the babies being born in the US are now at serious risk for a...
May 2012
Let's make this simple.
dansolomon:
Regarding “war on women” rhetoric and the exclusion of transgender people that comes with terms like that: I get it, yes, the people who want to strip reproductive rights probably do not even acknowledge the existence of transgender people, for the most part. As far as they are concerned, uterus = woman = woman = woman, forever and ever.
But A-1, why are you usingtheirdefinitions of...
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We are supposed to be the side fighting for bodily...
Pro-Tip: Cis women are not the only people who can...
ladyatheist:
theslinkywontslink:
lovewashername:
ladyatheist:
This so called “war on women” is not just a war on cis women. It’s a war on anyone who needs access to safe, affordable, and accessible healthcare. If we want to make any real progress, we need to stop ignoring and erasing the experiences of trans*, genderqueer, intersex, and other nonbinary people.
i feel like there should be...
PRENDA (sex-selective abortion bullshit... →
