Posted in History, New York, Reproductive Rights, United States on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
The feminists at Feministing have picked up on an abortion ban currently being considered by the Lithuanian Parliament, under pressure from the Catholic Church, to ban abortion in their country. They make the most significant point that such abortion bans only truly affect lower-income women, and this has been the case throughout much of history. [...]
Posted in Activism, Reproductive Rights, Sexual Education, United States, What You Can Do on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Recently, POPLINE, which is run by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is both the “world’s largest reproductive health database,”and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), began to block searches using the word “abortion.” Such overt interference of politics and anti-intellectualism into research projects, databases, information dissemination is especially [...]
Posted in Activism, New York, RHPPA, Reproductive Rights, What You Can Do, tagged RHPPA on April 3, 2008 | No Comments »
I plan to repost the below every couple of weeks to remind New Yorkers to CONTACT your LEGISLATORS to show your support for RHPPA.
There is one easy way to demonstrate your support for the Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act (RHPPA) and that is by writing to your assembly member and state senator.
As mentioned below, [...]
Posted in Hostile Amendments, New York, RHPPA, Reproductive Rights, tagged Judicial Permission, Judicial Review, RHPPA on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
The risk of trying to pass a completely reasonable, up-to-date abortion law through the New York senate (or any senate) is that hostile lawmakers will get their hands on the law and castrate it. This castration will come in the guise of “hostile amendments.” In the case of a pro-choice law such as RHPPA, these [...]
Posted in Activism, Reproductive Rights, Sexual Education on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
In honor of Back Up Your Birth Control Day, I wanted to do a quick post on Emergency Contraception: the myths, the facts.
The Myth: “Abortion Pill”: Anti-Choice groups would have you believe that Emergency Contraception IS an abortion. It is not:
1. The woman is not pregnant: Medical authorities agree that it takes a few days [...]
Posted in Reproductive Rights on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Stumbled across this site today, and it’s something I will definitely explore later, but here’s a treat: Bush vs. Choice: the pro-choice anti-Bush action center.
Explore away! I’m adding it to the blogroll!
Posted in Activism, Reproductive Rights on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
As we go into the Easter weekend (and Happy Purim as well!), I (as someone raised Catholic) will attend a Catholic mass with my family tomorrow. I will be preached to by a priest with whom I have fundamental disagreements about some essentials on how people should live their lives, which will make me think [...]
Posted in Activism, New York, RHPPA, Reproductive Rights on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Notes from a (not so underground) Panel: New York’s Abortion Law: Are We Really Protected?
March 13, 2008, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m, Judson Memorial Church
Featured Speakers:
Richard F. Daines, M.D., New York State Health Commissioner [...]
Posted in History, Reproductive Rights, Weimar Germany on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
As my friend (and brilliant future legal scholar) Lindsey pointed out the other day, another issue to query into when we address our society’s attitude toward abortion is the responsibility of the state.
Roe v. Wade argues that “a State may properly assert important interests in safeguarding health, in maintaining medical standards, and [...]
Posted in Reproductive Rights, United States, tagged Abortion, EC, Ob-Gyn on March 19, 2008 | No Comments »
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has tried to set professional guidelines that would require an ob-gyn who refuses to perform an abortion or give Emergency Contraception (EC: a heavy dose of birth control — NOT an abortion pill, contrary to anti-choice reports) to refer the patient to another ob-gyn. The Bush [...]
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