Anti-choice arguments against contraception are perfectly pitched to bring in conservatives who are motivated by the politics of resentment, as the anti-choice and anti-environmentalism alignment demonstrates.
The Center for Reproductive Rights takes on the mandatory ultrasound in Texas. Also, the war on Planned Parenthood spreads on the state level, and Tim Pawlenty vs. Michele Bachmann in a battle over who hates women's rights more.
In an important victory for women in Indiana and elsewhere, a federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction halting enforcement of an Indiana law barring Planned Parenthood Indiana from participating in the state's Medicaid program.
The overwhelming majority of my generation rejects the Republican agenda. Four in five of us support expanded access to birth control for women who can’t afford it, and a solid two-thirds of us support LGBT marriage equality and the availability of abortion care, according to a new national poll of the millennial generation by the Public Religion Research Institute. I am taking that to the polls in 2012.
I spent my formative years believing my body, my life and my choices were not my own, but a kind of joint property between myself, God, my parents and my church friends and family. As such, my body and my behavior was up for discussion and judgment. Is it any wonder then, that I'm afraid, as a single woman, to be pregnant?
I am always struck by how those who seek and work actively to limit the rights and freedoms of groups of people based on race, class, sex, gender or sexual orientation somehow always see themselves as the victims.
In the hopes that the courts will overturn the state's funding ban, local Planned Parenthoods are having staff take unpaid leave rather than close the doors.
