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"What If Your Mother Had Aborted You?"

Frances Kissling on May 9, 2008 - 1:21pm
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Far too much is made of a mother's obligations to her children and far too little of a child's love for her mother. If fetuses could love, I think they would be as passionate in defense of their mothers as born children become.


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Celebrating Courageous Acts of Motherhood

Grayson Dempsey, Backline on May 9, 2008 - 10:51am
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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

Carolina Austria, RH Reality Check, Asia on May 9, 2008 - 8:35am
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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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New Moms in Africa Fight Postpartum Depression

Masimba Biriwasha, RH Reality Check, Africa & Asia on May 9, 2008 - 8:20am
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African women giving birth are often affected by low incomes and and high stress levels, increasing the likelihood of onset of postpartum depression.

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Motherhood: Canada's New Glass Ceiling?

Pamela Pizarro, RH Reality Check, North America on May 9, 2008 - 8:00am
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When it comes to motherhood, Canada may offer some benefits and social programs that American mothers envy, but not still not enough to make having children accessible to all women.

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The Best Gifts for Mother's Day Are Rights and Respect

Marcy Bloom, GIRE on May 9, 2008 - 8:00am
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We need a world that supports and respects safe and voluntary motherhood, not just with cards, fancy dinners, and sentiment on one Sunday a year, but by respecting our rights every single day.

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From Inside Prisons, Mothers Long for Their Children

Christy Hall, Birth Attendants on May 9, 2008 - 8:00am
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The majority of women in prison are mothers of minor children, and women are the fastest-growing prison population in the country. We need to recognize and treat with compassion the humanity of these mothers.

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Mothers Deserve More than One Day a Year

Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check on May 8, 2008 - 8:30am
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If we changed society's attitudes and policies around mothering and child care, we could give a gift not just to our own moms but to all mothers this Mother's Day.

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Too Poor to Parent?

Gaylynn Burroughs, Ms. Magazine on May 8, 2008 - 8:00am
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Black children are twice as likely to enter U.S. foster care than white children. The culprit: Our inattention to poverty.


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Subculture Mothering: China Martens on Punk Parenthood

Stacey Greenberg, Fertile Ground Zine on May 3, 2007 - 8:50am
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Before the internet made it easier to network with other alternative parents, before there was a genre of mama zines, or even Hip Mama, there was China Martens' "The Future Generation: The Zine for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends & Others."


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