Recent Posts Tagged With 'reproductive rights'

• Illustrating the Hypocrisy

  Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 19:23 in politics, health, reproductive rights

  A great political cartoon by Steve Sack of Slate Magazine (where you can find more cartoons of a similar persuasion): (H/T FMF's Choices Feminist Campus Blog.)...

• Pro-Life and Order

  Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 16:31 in television, reproductive rights

  Friday night my partner was on the couch watching television and I was only half listening from my study when strains of virulent pro-life rhetoric reached my ears. Was she watching FOX news? No. She was, in fact, watching the most recent episode of ...

• Please say it ain't so, Colorado

  Posted on Saturday August 8th, 2009 at 14:51 in reproductive rights

  "Colorado "Personhood" proposal's 2010 ballot title approved"Am I losing my mind? Am I experiencing deja vu? Did we or did we not just shoot down this amendment last year? Abortion opponents are one step closer to putting a "personhood amendment" on...

• Why I Love Hillary, Reason #347

  Posted on Sunday April 26th, 2009 at 20:38 in politics, global, reproductive rights

• Rock on Obama with your bad self!

  Posted on Friday February 27th, 2009 at 20:05 in politics, reproductive rights

  From The Washington Post (and many, many other sources), Obama Administration to Reverse Bush Rule on 'Conscience' Regulation: The Obama administration has begun the process of rescinding sweeping new federal protections that were granted in December...

• Global Gag Rule Repealed

  Posted on Friday January 23rd, 2009 at 20:36 in politics, global, reproductive rights

  As of today, President Obama has repealed the "global gag rule", which, as we all know, was a "ban on U.S. funding for international health groups that perform abortions, promote legalizing the procedure or provide counseling about terminating pregna...

• Kirsten Gillibrand

  Posted on Friday January 23rd, 2009 at 14:05 in politics, reproductive rights, lgbtq

  My father, Fred, who writes for Die Achse des Guten (a German news site/blog) wrote me an email today sharing some of his insight on U.S. Representative Kirsten Gillibrand, who New York governor David Paterson just named as Hillary Clinton's replacem...

• The Obama Administration, Women's Issues and LGBTQ Rights

  Posted on Wednesday January 21st, 2009 at 22:00 in politics, family, reproductive rights, lgbtq, domestic violence

  President (yay!) Obama has an entire page on the White House website devoted to women's issues, including agenda items about pay equity, health care, domestic violence, and education. Here's a small sampling: Supports a Woman's Right to Choose: Presi...

• A personal abortion narrative

  Posted on Wednesday December 10th, 2008 at 12:18 in medicine, reproductive rights

  I received an email yesterday from a fellow blogger (I'm not sure if she wants to be named or not, so I'll just call her B. for now) with a disturbing story forwarded from a close friend who had a harrowing abortion experience. Everyone reading this ...