Posted in History, RHPPA, Reproductive Rights, Weimar Germany on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
The other night I walked out of a panel on the RHPAA at Judson Memorial Church on Washington Square South to be met by two men (skeevy, skeevy men) who had been lying in wait for two hours to badger the women and men leaving the meeting. Inside the panel, I had witnessed a dude [...]
Posted in New York, RHPPA, Reproductive Rights, tagged New York, Pro-choice, RHPPA on March 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Under current New York state law, the right to an abortion is considered an exception.
Just as in turn-of-the-(last)-century Germany, abortion is regulated under criminal law, a categorization which makes a woman’s choice an illicit matter. A woman’s right to abortion is considered an exception in that case, a grant, a gift, but not a right.
This [...]
Posted in History, RHPPA, Reproductive Rights, tagged Activism, History, RHPPA, Your Author on March 14, 2008 | No Comments »
No, that wasn’t a rhetorical question, but an an attempt at an introduction of sorts for this blog.
Namely, this blog was inspired by a fight that’s going on right now in that progressive of all states, New York, for the Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act (RHPPA) that was announced in Spring 2007 following the [...]
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