Dr. Nicola Moore travels across the country to provide abortions at clinics where laws have made it nearly impossible to find providers in those areas. She has faced harassment and intimidation, but anti-choice threats haven't stopped her from helping to make abortion accessible. Listen to her story now on CHOICE/LESS.
If abortion care had been treated like any other medical care, the atrocities that took place at Kermit Gosnell's medical office could have been avoided, and the women of West Philadelphia who were treated by him could have sought care from competent professionals instead.
When the smoke of human kindness with which anti-choice legislators, scientists, organizers, advocates, and allies have cloaked themselves begins to dissipate, all that is left is the rank disdain for women that drives their movement—a movement that is chock full of people who regard the truth as something to be bent to suit their purposes.
Irrespective of prior failures to use the Kermit Gosnell case to incite the public, the anti-choice movement is now trying again, with a docudrama titled Gosnell, ostensibly to be released in early 2017.
It's time for media elites, and most especially male media elites, to stop expounding on abortion unless and until they know what they are talking about.
"It's more than a little sad that this is what passes for health care. They're just making it up as they go along, and it's replacing actual clinics that were providing health care," Blake Rocap of NARAL Pro-Choice Texas said.
“HB 1948 is an assault on a woman's ability to make the decision that's best for her and her family, nothing more,” Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Mike Stack (D) wrote. “I was in those lawmakers' shoes several years ago, and I made the wrong decision. They have an opportunity to learn a lesson from my experience.”
While anti-choice movement leaders tried to sell the message that the challenged abortion restrictions of HB 2 were put in place to guarantee safer abortion care rather than to curb access, a prominent figure among them strayed off message.