informed consent

Medical practitioners get more leeway to do what they think is best, while women get less.

Ooooh....this one comes with videos!

Today the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out important provisions of a South Dakota law that literally forced doctors to lie to their patients.

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How a scene from a popular television show and a new law in Texas patronize women who seek abortions. 

During Monday's smug, self-congratulating second reading of House Bill 15, a Republican talk radio host from Houston, may not have realized how much he slipped when he said he liked the bill because of its power in "addressing the needs of the members in the House and the Senate."

This language of “informed consent” merely serves as a thinly veiled attempt at shaming women who seek abortion, a shaming made all the more hypocritical when carried out in the supposed name of women’s health and safety.

Porn actors should wear condoms as a rule; pushing personhood for fetuses in Florida doesn't seem to be a winning idea; the number of premature infants being born in the U.S is decreasing; and a safe-sex flash mob?

Increasingly our politics and policies are shaped by lies and misinformation spread with the purpose of supporting a political agenda.  The issue of abortion and mental health--discussed in this weekend's Washington Post--illustrates the case.

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A woman comes into a hospital, in labor, refuses to pre-consent to a c-section, and has her baby whisked away under charges of child neglect?

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland yesterday announced their lawsuit against LB594.