Roundup: Georgia Eliminating State Funds for Domestic Violence Prevention
Georgia will use federal TANF money for domestic violence shelters which could eliminate services for women without children, what do state ant-abortion bills say about women, Arizona enacts more anti-abortion legislation, and Starbucks selling a maternal health benefit CD.
Georgia will use federal TANF money for domestic violence shelters which could eliminate services for women without children, what do state ant-abortion bills say about women, Arizona enacts more anti-abortion legislation, and Starbucks selling a maternal health benefit CD.
- Georgia is trying to eliminate all state spending on domestic violence prevention, and instead will fund shelters with federal dollars taken from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Domestic violence prevention advocates in the state are concerned that the shelters will no longer be able to provide services to women without children. Money from TANF can be used for “preventing and reducing out-of-wedlock pregnancies as well as encouraging the formation and maintenance of two-parent families.” Advocates say that “certainly we are not in the business of maintaining two-parent families where domestic violence is involved.”
- What can you gather about women if you read state anti-abortion bills that have been introduced or passed this year? Susan Nielsen of The Oregonian says the bills paint women as “impulsive, lying, vulnerable and childlike creatures.”
- Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who recently signed a bill banning race and sex-selection abortions in that state, just signed a bill that requires a physician to administer medication abortion to women. Previously, trained nurse practitioners could administer the drug. The legislation also bans the practice of telemed abortions, which increase access to women in rural areas.
- Would you like to add maternal health to your morning latte order? Starbucks is releasing a CD produced by model-turned-maternal health advocate Christy Turlington with tracks by Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Lopez and others that will benefit CARE and Every Mother Counts.
Apr 4
- Why Fiscal Conservatives Should Embrace Planned Parenthood – Slate Magazine
- Blocking a UN Threat to the Family – Huffington Post (blog)
- New Levels Of Perversity In The Never Ending Republican War On Women – The Moderate Voice
- Florida Bill Will Force Women to Look at Their [Redacted] – Mother Jones (blog)
- Cambodian Women Fear Death at Childbirth – The Irrawaddy News Magazine
- What Others Say: Women under attack – Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
- Before defunding Planned Parenthood, ask this question – Indianapolis Star
Apr 3
- Beijing loosens one-child policy for some couples – China Post
- Abortion rights supporters put banners over billboards – Chicago Tribune
- One million lives lost to midwife shortage globally – Reuters AlertNet
- Limited government fans limit abortion – Chicago Sun-Times
- The great Republican bait-and-switch – Chicago Tribune
- United States: New laws attack unions, women’s right to choose – Green Left Weekly
- Pro-choice activists demand protest rights – Green Left Weekly
- Midwife shortage costing millions of lives – report – Daily Monitor
- HIV-positive inmates not supposed to work, says official – Daily Monitor
- Midwifery-Led Care In Action, A Birth Story – Babble (blog)
- Bible Says God Performs Abortion – Tucson Citizen
- Georgia set to eliminate all state funds to fight domestic violence – Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
- Police charge Myla Castro for performing an illegal abortion in Manila – Examiner.com
- More families are adopting HIV-positive children – The Seattle Times
- Mass. lawmakers to hold hearing on health bills – Boston Herald
- Education budget crunch could cost Scranton schools’ program for teen moms – Scranton Times-Tribune
- Not enough workers is not the problem – Washington Observer Reporter
- Texas sex-ed program pushed by local doctors – Tulsa World
- Republicans should not enshrine discrimination – Muncie Star Press
- Abortion bill amendments supported – Hutchinson News
- Family planning: Use the rod, spare the child with new contraceptive – The Express Tribune
- Reproductive rights group says Oklahoma House Bill on abortion is unconstitutional – NewsOK.com
- Sallie Saxon: Sin to salvation – Charlotte Observer
Apr 2
- Gardasil Vaccine Campaign Doesn’t Raise Awareness Among Australian Girls – MedIndia
- New fatwa okays birth control steps – Emirates 24/7
- Behind the abortion laws: From bills, a disturbing portrait of women emerges – OregonLive.com
- Community Reactions To Abortion Bills – KFBB NewsChannel 5
- Students debate Planned Parenthood – The Hullabaloo Online
- Jan Brewer To Sign Another Controversial Abortion Bill – Examiner.com
- Her goal: ridding ‘trans’ bias at work – Minneapolis Star Tribune
- Fort Worth settles gay bar-police debacle – QNotes
- Lawmakers Challenge the Effectiveness of Abstinence-Only Education – Change.org (blog)
- House approves breastfeeding bill – Journal Online
- Republicans Vote to Rid Obamacare of Tax Write Off for Abortions – The Weekly Standard (blog)
- For God’s sake! – Philippine Star
- Conn. honored for teen vaccination increase – NECN
- Building housing Delaware abortion clinic up for sale – The News Journal
- High maternal mortality rate robbing nation – The Financial Gazette
- Online Only: Gov. Rick Perry’s ‘Texanity’ explained – Irondequoit Post
- Florida Legislature Burned by Confederate Plate – Sunshine State News
- India combats sex-selective abortion – CNN International
- 5 HIV-positive women tread a new path – Times of India
- State’s new sex ed law ‘surprisingly decent’ – Jackson Clarion Ledger
- Moderates in GOP lose clout – Concord Monitor
- Pharmacists again making preterm labor drug – Pittsburgh Post Gazette
- Texas House Republicans move to cut funding for family planning, arts commission – Fort Worth Star Telegram
- The Fight for Greater Justice for Women – Daily Beast (blog)
- Mom publishes daughter’s lost battle with cervical cancer – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Apr 1
- Brewer to sign new Arizona abortion limits into law – East Valley Tribune
- Santorum significantly overstates the frequency of abortion – Tampabay.com
- Arizona Gov to Sign Pro-Life Bill Banning Telemed Abortions – LifeNews.com
- New documents revealed in Helena sex education controversy – KRTV Great Falls News
- We’re No. 1! (in teen births) – Bakersfield Californian
- Republicans strip $50 million and counting from family planning for other services – San Antonio Express (blog)
- Love and Condoms can Change the World – Huffington Post (blog)
- The Fight for Greater Justice for Women – Daily Beast (blog)
- Cuts to family-planning funds could affect 27000 Montanans – Billings Gazette
- ‘Stunned’ pro-life teacher fired over abortion debate flap: France – Lifesite
- Falmouth Hospital Maternity Ward reopened – Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service
- Editorial: Abortion law runs counter to state’s message of frugality – Daily Republic
- A Not Totally Unsympathetic Look at What Goes on In a Pregnancy Help Centers – National Right to Life News
- The Reproductive Rights War Goes Global – Mother Jones (blog)
- Welsh Girls As Young as 13 Can Get Morning-After Pill – Newser
- Healthcare Business News House panel moves against some abortion-related tax … – ModernHealthcare.com
- Culture warriors pass 6 amendments stripping family planning $ – Dallas Morning News (blog)
- April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month – Historic City News
- Anti-abortion billboards condescending – Chicago Tribune
- Another amendment seeks to take more money from family planning – Austin American-Statesman (blog)
- House Committee Votes Against Abortion-Related Tax Breaks – Accounting Today
- Texas House cuts funding for family planning – Ct Post
- The Unfulfilled Legacies of Elizabeth Taylor and Geraldine Ferraro – The Atlantic
- Texas House cuts funding for family planning, redirects money to abortion … – CanadianBusiness.com
- Drug maker lowers price of Makena pregnancy drug to $690 per dose – Los Angeles Times
- H&M's new collection falls flat – CNNMoney
- KV Pharma Cuts Price of Costly Premature Birth Prevention Drug – ABC News
- Indiana Shoots Down Rape/Incest Abortion Exceptions – Mother Jones
- Health and Human Services: ‘LGBT people have been denied the compassionate … – MiamiHerald.com
- Health and Human Services: ‘LGBT people have been denied the compassionate … – MiamiHerald.com
- Gender inequalities ‘greatly impact rate women contract HIV’ – Bahamas Tribune
- Hayward Reproductive Clinic Opens Under New Management – Patch.com
- Allowing Organ Donation by People With HIV Could Save Lives, Experts Say – U.S. News & World Report
- Starbucks To Release Celebrity Charity CD For Maternal Health – Look To The Stars
- Political Battle Rages on in Texas Over HIV/AIDS Drugs for Low Income Patients – Technorati
- The art of making babies – Livemint
- The Radical Islamist Atheists Are Coming — and Other Quotes of the Week – RollingStone.com (blog)
- COMMENTARY: Marriage, taxes and the unfairness of DOMA – San Diego Gay & Lesbian News
- Former UC Irvine fertility doctor will not be extradited to US, Mexican … – Los Angeles Times
- Philippines needs a reproductive health policy: UN – Reuters India
- Governor Scott One Step Closer to Handing Medicaid Over to For-Profit HMOs – Huffington Post (blog)
- Kansas poised to impose rules on abortion clinics – Kansas City Star
- LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: Hearing set on bills to remove ‘homosexual conduct’ law … – Dallas Voice
- One of four abortion bills dropped – UI The Daily Iowan
- Santorum Blames “Abortion Culture” for Pittsburgh Pirates’ Losing Ways – PoliticsPA