Today NARAL Pro-Choice Washington launches the Now You Know Dino Day of Action, the details of which have been shared on Air America and covered on
Horses Ass.
Banner ads informing voters that Dino Rossi is anti-choice and anti-contraception can be viewed today on www.SeattleTimes.com , www.SeattlePI.com, www.Columbian.com and www.HorsesAss.org
An article in the Boston Globe written by a Massachusetts pediatrician discusses the difficulty doctors have when dealing with adolescent patients who need information about STDs and teen pregnancy from their doctors as a result of lack of education given in abstinence-only sex-education programs at school.
In an ongoing attempt to smear Barack Obama by way of his loose connection to William Ayers, a McCain spokesperson commented that if McCain associated with an abortion clinic bomber it would be a legitimate topic of discussion. Ironic, points out Think Progress and RH Reality Check, because McCain has made several votes that decreased protections for women and doctors at reproductive health clinics.
In an article for the Washington Blade, a gay publication in the Washington DC area, John McCain claims to support a national AIDS prevention policy, despite having never mentioned such plans before, as pointed out by RH Reality Check.
For the third time the Supreme Court will not hear an appeal by an anti-abortion group seeking to overturn a case that awarded abortion providers more than $16 million after the group created posters and websites naming abortion doctors alongside their home addresses and phone numbers: (via Seattle PI).
The LA Times editorializes against the Bush administration assertion that California's family planning program for low-income women must re-evaluate the way it calculates undocumented immigrants by individually vetting each patient for legal status, saying it is the federal government's responsibility to determine and cover undocumented immigrants, not California's:
