Save Lives! Regulate Pregnancy
The theme of this years blogburst is: What is your top pro-choice hope for President Obama and/or the new Congress?
American women’s rights to reproductive liberty and recognition of women as persons, has taken some sharp hits. Some states have already instituted requirements for forced tests and waiting periods and domestic terrorists in the guise [...]
In the wake of the hysterical campaign of outrageous lies that US anti-choice fundamentalist religious zealots waged against the election of Obama, there is a disquieting calm.
After making significant gains during the Bush administration, the anti-abortion movement was dealt sharp setbacks in last week’s election with the defeat of three state ballot measures restricting abortion.
Now, [...]
Yet another high-falutin’ Catholic cleric has his ecclesiastical pantaloons in a knot.
Fordham University Law School’s plan to give an award to the Supreme Court justice Stephen G. Breyer on Wednesday night has drawn criticism from Cardinal Edward M. Egan …
Justice Breyer wrote the majority opinion in the Supreme Court’s 2000 decision overturning Nebraska’s ban on [...]
What could one possibly add to the brash posturing – The Pill Kills! – from the ‘organized’ abortion-criminalizing, fetus-fetishizing religious fundamentalist neo-cons, about the contraceptive pill? Many have blogged about this surrealistic phenomenon, brilliantly of course. Here’s one round-up, there’s likely more if you look.
Thus my modest contribution: a theme song for us to chant [...]
We at Birth Pangs have been wrestling with ‘conscience’. Not ours. Ours are fine, thank you. (Er, except for that evening a few weeks ago, when one of us had a tad too much to drink and took her father-in-law to task for the unequal distribution of wealth in Canada, and well, pretty much the [...]
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