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Students Arrested at Protest to Save Academy for Pregnant and Mothering Teens

April 24, 2011 - 7:56pm (Print)

After everything these girls had already been through, they would be hauled off to jail for an act of desperate and peaceful resistance, motivated only by a desire to go to school.

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Book Review: The Globalization of Motherhood

by Sharon Lerner

December 6, 2010 - 8:41am (Print)

If you’ve read much science-fiction, you’re probably familiar with the idea that, at some scary point in the future, various aspects of mothering will be separated, enabling wealthy women to farm out component tasks to less-privileged women. That day is here.

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Behind Bars for Being Pregnant and HIV-Positive

by Margo Kaplan, Center for HIV Law and Policy

June 10, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

While some states do criminalize HIV exposure, a U.S. District Judge does more than this - he imprisons a woman for the mere possibility that she might transmit HIV in the future.

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Mother's Day, at an Abortion Clinic

by Wench Self-Care Health Collective

May 8, 2009 - 8:37am (Print)

Escorts stand shoulder to shoulder, bound to strangers in an effort to offer a kind word or two to clients who are exercising their right to make a compassionate, informed, responsible decision, a motherly choice.

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The Assault on Freedom of Conscience

by Peggy O'Mara, Mothering Magazine

April 9, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

O'Mara argues that parents' freedom of conscience has been demonized - from a new mother, HIV positive, who was court-ordered to stop breastfeeding her baby and forced to give him AZT, to refusing to allow women the right to birth at home - intolerance for parents' choices is growing.

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Exemptions from Military Service: Mothers in the Military and Fathers at Home?

by Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School

March 19, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

Should the Army have exempted a mother from active-duty service because she has two young children, when her husband could have cared for them?

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Whose Safe Haven? Abandoned Baby Found in St. Louis

by Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

May 12, 2008 - 7:24am (Print)

Have Safe Haven laws -- in which women can lawfully relinquish their infants within 30 days of birth -- become a substitute for universal health care and comprehensive sexuality education?

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Celebrating Courageous Acts of Motherhood

by Grayson Dempsey, Backline

May 9, 2008 - 9:51am (Print)

This Mother's Day, move beyond brunch to acknowledge the courageous acts of all mothers, and wake up Monday morning ready to work toward a world in which pregnancy, parenting, abortion and adoption choices are all honored fully and equally.

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The Politics of Motherhood, the Capacity for Choice

by Carolina Austria, RH Reality Check, Asia

May 9, 2008 - 7:35am (Print)

Religious fundamentalists' fear isn't that feminism will lead all women to reject motherhood, but rather that in the capacity for choice, women challenge the notions that rationalize male domination embedded in traditional meanings of motherhood.

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