Posts tagged as Abortion
Is 'Roe v. Wade' Effectively Dead?
"Supporters and opponents of abortion agree on nothing. One side says this is a conversation about fertilized eggs; the other says it's about fetuses. One side says the debate is about personal autonomy; the other says it's about murder. One side sees exceptions to abortion restrictions for reasons of maternal life or health as necessary to protect life; the other sees them as cunning 'loopholes.' Increasingly, however, there is a fundamental assumption both sides seem to share, even if they don't say so, and it may well shape the future of abortion rights in America: Opponents and supporters of abortion appear to have taken the position that Roe v. Wade is no longer the law of the land."
Only 14 More Hours of Family Planning Hostage-Taking
You know what would help solve the fake "deadlock" that may shut down the government at midnight? If Planned Parenthood could save money by not having to go state by state to defend legal abortion in courts from Arizona to Ohio to Missouri to Connecticut to Iowa. Since their public policy expenditures are something like $55 million, and Planned Parenthood's government contracts and grants are only something like $363 million, none of which is used to pay for abortion services, they could get closer to not needing your government money if half the states in the country would stop pushing stupid laws. (Though the best part is, Planned Parenthood and its fellow litigants often get their legal bills paid, since they frequently win their cases against these stupid laws.) Also, everyone needs to stop saying that "abortion" is what is leading to the government shutdown, since the federal government is not allowed to provide funds for abortions. Really, the Republicans in actuality just don't want you to get your sexually transmitted diseases treated.
South Dakota By The Hours
"South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a law Tuesday requiring women to wait three days after meeting with a doctor to have an abortion, the longest waiting period in the nation." Should, however, you be in the market for a handgun, the wait is a more manageable two days.
240 Politicians Come Together In Support of Teens Having STDs
240 members of the House of Representatives voted to deny federal funding to Planned Parenthood. Because you know what we should all be against? Healthcare, unbiased information and STD prevention. Enjoy your uneducated and pregnant kiddos, Republican America! Should anyone have any money left after the politician-induced recession, perhaps they could give some to Planned Parenthood.
The Personhood Movement is Quietly Rolling Along (Over Your Rights)
South Dakota is going to vote on a bill that amends its justifiable homicide law! They want to make sure that you can kill people with justification if someone is going to harm your unborn child "or the unborn child of that person's spouse, partner, parent, or child." The amendment passed out of committee with a handy 9-3 vote. So you can see where this is going. (Fun fact: the law as written already allows you to kill to prevent a felony being performed upon your master or your servant.) The personhood movement is achieving success state by state (just like the gay marriage movement, sort of!) and they are going to try out a new tactic in Ohio: banning abortions after pregnancies of four weeks.
For Your Own Good: Chipping Away at 'Roe'
The Supreme Court’s historic Roe v. Wade decision turned 38 last week, and regardless of one’s ultimate view of the issue, the legal right to abortion on demand is clearly in the throes an awkward middle age. READ MORE
New York City Has Healthier Babies, Because They Want Them
In 2009, according to the numbers just released by the City at the end of 2010, New York City had 126,774 live births! And 90,000 pregnancies—that were reported, at least!—ended in chosen termination. So of course the Archbishop is weeping and freaking out. READ MORE
Happy New Year, Ross Douthat, Let's Talk About Abortion
"Since 1973, countless lives that might have been welcomed into families like Thernstrom’s—which looked into adoption, and gave it up as hopeless—have been cut short in utero instead. And lives are what they are. On the MTV special, the people around Durham swaddle abortion in euphemism. The being inside her is just 'pregnancy tissue.' After the abortion, she recalls being warned not to humanize it: 'If you think of it like [a person], you’re going to make yourself depressed.' Instead, 'think of it as what it is: nothing but a little ball of cells.' It’s left to Durham herself to cut through the evasion. Sitting with her boyfriend afterward, she begins to cry when he calls the embryo a 'thing.' Gesturing to their infant daughter, she says, 'A ‘thing’ can turn out like that. That’s what I remember ... ‘Nothing but a bunch of cells’ can be her.' When we want to know this, we know this." READ MORE
Women Find a Way to Actually Set the Internet on Fire
#ihadanabortion and I've never regreted it. #prochoice
Victoriana
Victorianaaa
1992, 1998. #ihadanabortion
Anna Holmes
AnnaHolmes
This is meeting with some predictable fuss.
You know, like:
Wow, what a sick feed #ihadanabortion There's nothing honorable in killing a developing child. There's nothing 2 be proud of, a baby is dead
Sarah Mindek
SarahMindek
And on the other side, why yes:
Why is saying #ihadanabortion "provovative?" I had my wisdom teeth out. Is that needlessly provocative? Or "i had a baby at 15?" No?
A. Jensen-Clem
lavidamorada
The Way We Note The Declining Standards Of Society Now
There is seriously something wrong with our society when we are trending #AbortionClinicPlaylistSongs ..I thought ScoobyDoo was bad but FUCK
$eth Money
sethmoney
Everything about this.
