Like most six-year-olds, little bits of information about the world leave my son asking, “Why? And why not??” I didn’t want to answer: “why are people celebrating the fact that this man is dead?”
Pregnant woman in Ohio will get a vaginal ultrasound in front of House committee so her fetus can “testify,” Arizona wants to further regulate medical abortion and discourage charitable donations to organizations that mention abortion, and Obama proclaims the start of Women’s History Month.
Despite being embroiled in a lawsuit in Ohio for false advertising, the anti-choice Susan B. Anthony List continues using the false charge of “taxpayer-funded abortion” to attempt to sway millions of voters.
President Obama has been in office for over a year, so why does President Bush’s last minute “provider conscience law” still exist?
The American media’s obsession with turning all of our politicians into psuedo father figures is making babies of all of us.
The term "baby-killer" has become the verbal equivalent of that four-letter obscenity angry people blurt out when they can’t think of anything rational to say. It’s the brutal, desperate proclamation of an empty mind and a damaged heart.
One of President Obama’s key common ground proposals focuses on making adoption more accessible. But what does that mean? And how do reproductive health and justice advocates work towards accomplishing the goal?
On Saturday, June 6th, anti-choice extremists across the country
gathered around doctors’ offices, health centers, pharmacies and public
spaces to protest something that most American women have used or will
use at some point in their life, and a majority of Americans strongly
support: birth control.
While I appreciate the importance of President
Obama raising awareness by issuing a national proclamation making this month Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
and Transgender Pride Month, I can’t help but ask: what happens in July?
President Obama has made a Supreme Court pick that couldn’t be more different from Harriet Miers — a candidate with such a strong judicial record and empathetic stance that it’s been hard for many in the Right to establish a coherent argument in her opposition.
