When any person is really ready for partnered sex that poses STI and/or pregnancy risks, they also have to be really ready to deal with safer sex and birth control.
An aggressive advocacy campaign by the Catholic Church has resulted in changes in the Constitution of the Dominican Republic protecting "the right to life" from the moment of conception to death.
In a day to go down in history, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton broke the political sound barrier regard the word "abortion" and may well have forever changed the course of US policy.
The President of Brazil's Catholics for Choice talks about the impact of the Church's excommunication (and later retraction) of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who sought an abortion.
The National Abstinence Education Association is lobbying Congress today - despite the colossal failures of abstinence only programs. Send a letter to your Congress person asking them to defund abstinence only programs.
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On the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Rewire asked prominent reproductive justice writers and activists what Roe meant to them and the women they serve -- and why Roe is not enough to ensure all women have access to reproductive choice.
I am pro-choice and pro-life when it comes to abortion because while I believe in the right to choose, I don't think I would have an abortion. But I have the luxury of this hypothetical exercise because of a decision the Supreme Court made 36 years ago.
