If you happen to be a woman of color, you simply don’t have any business that is your own, as far as society is concerned. The Jezebel and Welfare Queen stereotypes shape the responses you receive from others when you have a belly full of baby. So, the next time someone asks me how many more babies I’m going to have, I will have to respond with a “Girllllll, stay out my bedroom.”
The current sexual and reproductive health landscape in Mexico is one of both progress and challenges. It is one of divisions between rich and poor, between urban and rural populations, and between younger and older generations.
Rather than have a fight now over whether a priest's anti-choice views should be considered when he's being appointed to a state board dealing with medical issues, the debate will be held off until 2013.
If Christy Zink had carried her pregnancy to term and the baby lived through it, which wasn’t guaranteed, it would have suffered a short life of seizures and near-constant pain. If H.R. 3803 were in effect in 2009, she and the doctors who advised her on her options and performed the procedure would have been subject to criminal prosecution.
Teachers "accidentally" showed an anti-choice film comparing abortion to the Holocaust and distributed free copies of the dvd without waiting for parents to give consent.
Last week the UN released its latest estimates on global maternal deaths, just two years after the last figure. From 1990 to 2010, they found, the number of women dying from pregnancy- and childbirth-related causes worldwide dropped from 543,000 to 287,000, a near-fifty percent reduction in fatalities.
In a recall election that it likely to come down to who can better turn out voters, Wisconsin Right To Life plans to motivate "tens of thousands of right-to-life supporters" to vote for Walker.
