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Tag: pro-choice
Clinic Waiting Lists Fire Up Canadian Art-Activists
By wordsofchoice, Section Flasher Diaries
Posted on Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 05:21:33 PM EST
Tags: abortion, Canada, pro-choice
The portrait of choice is sitting next to you on the bus, coddling an infant at the grocery or maybe even looking out from the ladies' room mirror. A group of artist-activists in Canada has decided that it's time to picture choice and mount it for everyone to see.
The result: Arts4Choice.
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Abortion Issue more than just numbers
By ProKanDo, Section Hypocrites
Posted on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 12:26:24 PM EST
Tags: prokando, abortion, pro-choice, reproductive rights
In light of many studies and a recent AP article, if people were truly interested in significantly reducing the number of abortions being performed, they would first look at the demographics of those receiving abortion services and specifically, the conditions in which unintended pregnancies and resulting abortions are more likely to occur.
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The Anti-Choice Witch Hunt
By ProKanDo, Section Hypocrites
Posted on Thu Jan 24, 2008 at 05:35:03 PM EST
Tags: pro-choice, Dr. Tiller, ProKanDo, reproductive rights
Currently in Kansas, a grand jury is investigating Dr. George Tiller, one of only a handful of late-term abortion providers in the U.S. The petitioners are convinced that the Dr. has violated state regulations pertaining to late termination of pregnancy.
This is the second time in as many years the doctor has been thusly investigated as he is a top target of such anti-choice organizations like Kansans for Life (like the rest of Kansans are for death?), and Operation Rescue (they aren't interested in rescuing `born' children from anything).
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The Anti-Choice Witch Hunt
By ProKanDo, Section Flasher Diaries
Posted on Thu Jan 24, 2008 at 05:31:59 PM EST
Tags: pro-choice, Dr. Tiller, ProKanDo, reproductive rights
Currently in Kansas, a grand jury is investigating Dr. George Tiller, one of only a handful of late-term abortion providers in the U.S. The petitioners are convinced that the Dr. has violated state regulations pertaining to late termination of pregnancy.
This is the second time in as many years the doctor has been thusly investigated as he is a top target of such anti-choice organizations like Kansans for Life (like the rest of Kansans are for death?), and Operation Rescue (they aren't interested in rescuing `born' children from anything).
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Bush in Your Bedroom: Top Ten Worst Appointees for Reproductive Rights (so far...)
By HeatherWokusch, Section Hypocrites
Posted on Sat Dec 29, 2007 at 10:16:04 AM EST
Tags: Bush, abortion, reproductive rights, Alito, Supreme Court, pro-choice
"On September 11, we saw clearly that evil exists in this world, and that it does not value life ... Now we are engaged in a fight against evil and tyranny to preserve and protect life." - George W. Bush in 2002, linking abortion rights with terrorism, as he declared the 29th anniversary of Roe v. Wade to be "National Sanctity of Human Life Day."
Bush has used his Oval Office years to limit reproductive freedom and stack critical posts with right-wingers bent on rolling back the clock.
And now it appears yet another reactionary Bush appointee is on track to get a lifetime position as a federal judge...
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Taking away women's rights one egg at a time!
By ProKanDo, Section Hypocrites
Posted on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 04:10:29 PM EST
Tags: ProKanDo, abortion, Colorado, fertilized eggs, pro-choice
Colorado Initiative #36. Remember that number. Remember that number as a catalyst for not only trying to take away women's rights, but for restrictions on birth control, and the can of worms it will open in 2008. The initiative calls for changing the definition of `person' in the Colorado Constitution to include any human being from the moment of fertilization; giving fertilized eggs specific rights. There are certainly a number of problems with the initiative itself, including its wording, intentions and repercussions. For the Colorado Supreme Court to allow this initiative to continue is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Taking away women's rights one egg at a time!
By ProKanDo, Section Flasher Diaries
Posted on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 04:04:46 PM EST
Tags: ProKanDo, abortion, Colorado, fertilized eggs, pro-choice
Colorado Initiative #36. Remember that number. Remember that number as a catalyst for not only trying to take away women's rights, but for restrictions on birth control, and the can of worms it will open in 2008. The initiative calls for changing the definition of `person' in the Colorado Constitution to include any human being from the moment of fertilization; giving fertilized eggs specific rights. There are certainly a number of problems with the initiative itself, including its wording, intentions and repercussions. For the Colorado Supreme Court to allow this initiative to continue is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Snoop Dog Kline is at it Again!
By ProKanDo, Section Hypocrites
Posted on Mon Oct 22, 2007 at 03:52:36 PM EST
Tags: ProKanDo, abortion charges, pro-choice
What's the saying, "Old habits die hard?" Well that's exactly what Phill Kline's motto should be as District Attorney of Johnson County, Kansas. He can't seem to stop harassing women and doctors, and snooping around for information regarding women's medical records. He is clearly and unequivocally sticking his nose in a place where it does not belong. Some people across the state even question his authority as DA to file such a complaint in his home county.
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Abortion Rights 101 For Dummies
By Beket, Section Flasher Diaries
Posted on Wed Sep 05, 2007 at 05:35:27 PM EST
Tags: Abortion, religion, pro-choice, politics, republican, democrat, supreme court, reproductive rights, health, medicine, terrorism, pro-life
As an abortion provider (MD) I performed an early first trimester abortion on a college senior some years ago. Prior to meeting me she had told a clinic counselor that she was the president of her campus "pro-life" organization. Think about that. That must mean that she was one of their most committed and hardest workers against legal and safe professional abortion care for several years, but when she got pregnant herself, she was in the clinic having an abortion within a week of her positive pregnancy test.
As I completed her abortion, I asked her what she was now going to do about her affiliation with that anti-choice club. Startled, she gasped, sat abruptly up on the operating table, and, with eyes booming horror, blurted out in a tremulous, frightened voice, . . .
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Jacksonville Jaguars need your help - they are being attacked by the fundies
By idealistlefty, Section Flasher Diaries
Posted on Fri Aug 24, 2007 at 07:19:34 PM EST
Tags: planned parenthood, pro-choice, activism
I occasionally get email alerts from a site called LifeNews - one of those fundie hate sites. A sorta know thine enemy approach to keeping up with things. They just sent out an action alert because the Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation has given a grant to the Planned Parenthood of Northeast Florida.
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Passion for the Possible
By Susan Hill, Section Rants
Posted on Wed Aug 22, 2007 at 09:47:54 AM EST
Tags: abortion, pro-choice, National Women's Health Organization
This is excerpted from an address delivered to the New York Planned Parenthood on October 2, 1995 by Susan Hill, executive director of the National Women's Health Organization.
In the course of 23 years, our organization has been a plaintiff in 28 federal or state lawsuits. We have been the targets of arson or firebombs 14 times. We have been vandalized hundreds of times. We have been the targets of thousands of "rescuers." We have had more than 1,000 arrests in front of our clinics. We have had our homes picketed. Our doctors and staff members have been stalked. One of our doctors, David Gunn, was murdered. We, like you, have endured more opposition and harassment than most Americans can imagine or believe.
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"The Only Moral Abortion Is My Abortion"
By choice joyce, Section Hypocrites
Posted on Mon Aug 20, 2007 at 07:10:33 PM EST
Tags: abortion, pro-choice, anti-choice, hypocrisy
Although I wrote this article in 2000, it could have been written yesterday. This phenonemon continues unabated at abortion clinics throughout the nation.
When the Anti-Choice Choose
Abortion is a highly personal decision that many women are sure they'll never have to think about until they're suddenly faced with an unexpected pregnancy. But this can happen to anyone, including women who are strongly anti-choice. So what does an anti-choice woman do when she experiences an unwanted pregnancy herself? Often, she will grin and bear it, so to speak, but frequently, she opts for the solution she would deny to other women - abortion.
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