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Stepping Up for Pregnant Women & Unborn Children In Her Own Home: Reflections from Linda Naranjo-Huebl
Linda Naranjo-Huebl is a professor of women's and American ethnic literature at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She lives parttime in her hometown of Denver, Colorado, where she and her fami...
Both Sides of The Question, "What If Your Mother Had Aborted You?"
Frances Kissling, longtime leader of Catholics for a Free Choice, flips around the question that "antichoicers" have asked her for years: What If Your Mother Had Aborted You?"What if your mother's li...
Ending the Catholic Ban on Contraception
Catholic groups ask pope to end contraception banThe Nonviolent Choice Directory is a nonsectarian service for people of all faiths and none. And so we defend the personal liberties of people who wis...
Trying to Address the Charge of Prolife Hypocrisy
I welcome conversation with people who identify as prochoice on abortion. I especially welcome opportunities for cooperative action to reduce abortions and unintended pregnancies and pursue any other...
What Really Happened With Agata? Here's What *Didn't* Happen
It's very difficult to piece everything together. There's a prolife and a prochoice version of the story. But this month a 14 year old girl in Poland, identified in the press only by the pseudonym "...
Now That's News: Respectful Dialogue on Abortion & Its Reduction
Want to hear a thoughtful, respectful conversation about abortion among prochoice and prolife Friends (Quakers)? The host of the "Spirit in Action" program on Northern Spirit Radio, Eau Claire, Wis...
Tokophobia: It's Dreadful, But Treatable
Tokophobia (sometimes spelled tocophobia) is a phobia of pregnancy and childbirth that may affect as many as six to ten percent of women. It is a dread far, far more intense and disabling than the anx...
Ensure Access to Voluntary Sterilization (US)
Sterilization abuse--involuntary sterilization--of the poor, people of color, and people with disabilities is a dirty open secret of US and global history that still hasn't gone away.It is also a form...
Polish Prolifers Decry Tax Hike on Baby Clothes
According to a report by Joanna Najfeld of Polskie Radio's External Service, Polish prolifers are protesting the European Commission's demand for Poland to increase the tax on baby clothes from 7% to ...
"Life Will Find A Way to Survive": An Interview With Ecofeminist Rosalie Bertell
Rosalie Bertell, born in 1929, is a dual Canadian/US citizen, Roman Catholic nun, and endorser of the Consistent Life mission statement. A controversial but persevering ecofeminist, she works on heali...
We're Not the Only Pro Contraceptive Prolifers
Turn the Clock Forward rounds up a Pro Contraception, Pro Life blogswarm.LAMom's contributions link to that poll we all like a lot, the one showing that 80% of US prolifers are prochoice on contracept...
responses from sluts4choice
...can be found in the comments here. Kindly please visit the Nonviolent Choice Blog. You can subscribe to us for regular action alerts and commentaries. Please also visit our our directory of activi...
We Are Prolife and Pro-Contraception
Turn the Clock Forward is calling for a prolife, pro-contraception blogswarm on May 31. Since I probably won't have much computer access on that day, I will chime in early.I want to underscore the man...
more on sluts4choice
So far, no one from this group has responded to my explanation of what the manifesto is about from the vantage point of its authors/sponsors, nor my invitation to dialogue. Kindly please visit the Non...
Accusations from sluts4choice
The LiveJournal group sluts4choice have levelled a number of charges against the manifesto Pro Every Life, Pro Nonviolent Choice, Pro Reproductive Justice for All and its authors/sponsors, Turn the Cl...
Abortion No, Contraception Yes: Speak Up May 31
Are you one of the majority of prolifers (80 plus percent in the US) who advocate voluntary contraception and freedom of conscience in pregnancy prevention?Turn the Clock Forward is instigating a prol...
A CPC Director In Her Own Words
Prolife CPCs (Crisis Pregnancy Centers) often face sharp, unmitigated criticism from prochoicers that they have no public chance to answer or explain who they are and what they do on their own terms. ...
You're Invited to Sign Our Manifesto
Nonviolent Choice and Turn the Clock Forward have teamed up to sponsor the following on Care2's The Petition Site. Please join us, and thank you! It is vital that all of us who take such an approach t...
Child Abuse: What Can A Person Do?
Many people feel powerless to recognize child abuse when it is going on. If they do recognize it, they are confused or paralyzed about responding. And many people wonder what to do with abusive impu...
Single Mothers in China
From the New York Times via UN Wire:Single Mothers in China Forge a Difficult Path.The pressures on Chinese single mothers to abort and the discrimination they face with their children if they do not ...
Amnesty International's Big Mistake: An Interview with Andrew Eager of Roll Back Amnesty
Except for an uncontroversial stance against forced procedures, the global human rights giant Amnesty International (AI) remained officially neutral on abortion until 2007. Last year, it officially de...
For an Even Bolder Reproductive Health Agenda, Why Not.....
To mark International Women's Day, RH (Reproductive Health) Reality Check and UN Dispatch are teaming up for the salon A New Agenda for Girls's and Women's and Health and Rights. The salon includes ...
Endorse UNIFEM's "Say NO to Violence Against Women" Petition
UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, has launched a global petition, "Say NO to Violence Against Women." Your signature will net $1 for UNIFEM's efforts to abolish violence against ...
Still More Debate on Contraception
ben d. returns to continue our lengthening debate on contraception. He raises the question of whether hormonal contraceptives actually work by causing very early abortions. And I have my reasons for...
Down Syndrome & the Human Rights to Live & Thrive
Disability rights blogger Patricia Bauer brings news of an online petition by parents of people with Down Syndrome to protest the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' recent call to sc...
Reproductive Justice: Big Enough for the Both of Us?
A prochoice feminist who engages in dialogue with prolife feminists just remarked to me about how compelling she finds the vision of reproductive justice. And I responded that while I probably saw the...
Adoption as an Alternative to Abortion
Cory Ruchards at RHRealityCheck.org insists: "Facilitating adoptions, especially of hard-to-place children, deserves our strong support. But it does nothing to affect the abortion rate. To assert that...
Exposed! What a "Rightwing Chreeshtain Fundamentalist" This Blogger Is!
The work of the Nonviolent Choice Directory has been dismissed more than once as a clever-evil, fake-compassionate front and shill operation for the misogynist forces of ultra rightwing crazy-Chreesht...
Worldwide Declines in Unborn & Already-Born Child Mortality
Some recent news:--Global rates of birth-to-five child mortality are declining. (Press release on the forthcoming UNICEF State of the World's Child Report 2008)--In the US, unborn child mortality fro...
On the 35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
Today I am simply making routine checks of the links on the Nonviolent Choice Directory, to make sure they still work, and slowly but surely adding in new ones. I, personally, do not feel moved to pr...