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, 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, 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 Activism, New York, RHPPA, tagged RHPPA, What You Can Do on March 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yes, yes, what a goddamn cheesy title, bunch of phoneys.
BUT 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, the anti-choice movement has been bombarding our assembly members with false information and [...]
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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