mother's day
My Mom: The Undercover Reproductive Justice Activist
My mom prepared me to make good decisions for myself and my body. I’m sure she had no idea at the time that she was fostering at a reproductive justice advocate. But I thank her for it.
A Mother’s Day Wish for a Non-Toxic World
by Elizabeth Arndorfer, RHTP
May 7, 2010 - 6:00am (Print)
There’s just one thing I want for Mother’s Day, and only Congress and the President can give it to me: The peace of mind that would come with reforms to protect my family from toxic chemicals.
For Mother's Day: What Chemical Reform Can Do For Workers
by Dana Ginn Paredes, Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice
May 7, 2010 - 6:00am (Print)
As a parent-to-be I am elated to about the Safe Chemicals Act. But while I understand parents' fears about toxic chemicals, this is only the tip of of an iceberg, the rest of which is made up of those with the highest level of exposure: The workers.
What would Mother’s Day be without reproductive health?
reader diary by LindaSuttenfield, Pathfinder International
May 6, 2010 - 1:48pm (Print)
Working in the global reproductive health arena, I think about the profound grief my own mother experienced having lost a child and then about the millions of women around the world who face this sort of grief as a part of their daily lives because they lack access to reproductive health care. But we can make a change this Mother's Day.
(VIDEO) Happy Mother's Day To The Biggest Influence on a Young Woman's Life
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
May 6, 2010 - 10:58am (Print)
Center for Reproductive Rights celebrates the biggest role model for young women and reproductive health, their mothers.
What Being a Teen Mom Taught Me About Choice
May 6, 2010 - 6:00am (Print)
At 18, I chose to carry my unintended pregnancy to term. Now conservatives are taking choices away from other women. On Mother’s Day, we need to celebrate but also stand for women to have the same right to choose I did.
Mother's of a Different Reality
31 people have died from swine flu-multiply that
by 17,290 and you come close to the 536,000 pregnant women who die every year
from largely preventable causes.
It is not surprising that the countries with the
highest maternal mortality are war-torn.
Perhaps best said by a woman in Eastern Congo,
"We are victims of war. We don't take up
arms, but we, the women suffer the most."
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.
"What If Your Mother Had Aborted You?"
May 9, 2008 - 12:21pm (Print)
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.
Celebrating Courageous Acts of Motherhood
by Grayson Dempsey, Backline
May 9, 2008 - 9:51am (Print)
