In 2005, Brittany Wilson said in federal court that her boyfriend had forced her to have an abortion she didn’t want. She blamed Planned Parenthood for letting it happen. Now, Brittany’s story is again being used in federal court — this time to defend a South Dakota law that addresses the issue of coerced abortion.
Another day, another set of TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) laws, this time in Pennsylvania, where a proposed law is working its way through the state House of Representatives.
The FACE Act exists simply to keep anti-choice extremists from using violence or other terrorist tactics against abortion clinics and patients. Anyone "pro-life" should oppose terrorism, so why are anti-choicers fighting FACE instead?
Now that anti-choicers have moved the fight to contraception in a dramatic way, it's tempting to stop defending abortion altogether. But we need to make sure we're defending all women's rights.