Roe 2012
Redefining Chutzpah: More Bad Ideas to Burden Women
January 23, 2012 - 10:18pm (Print)
What's chutzpah? Until December 2011, I would have deferred to the classic definition in Leo Rosten's The Joys of Yiddish: chutzpah is a man who kills his parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court as a lonely orphan. But at the end of the year, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) introduced a bill to teach the world the real meaning of chutzpah: the "Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2011."
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Next Generation Access: Medical Students Fill A Void
January 23, 2012 - 10:15pm (Print)
Medical Students for Choice were and are still literally putting their futures and lives on the line by taking on the medical establishment as well as the anti-abortion zealots to bring forward new generations of abortion providers.
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Reproductive Rights on the Brink as Roe Turns 39
by Jessica Arons, Center for American Progress and Center for American Progress Action Fund
January 23, 2012 - 2:16pm (Print)
Bait-and-switch tactics by conservative politicians threaten to further undermine the protections of the Supreme Court’s seminal abortion rights case.
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Women are Watching on Anniversary of Roe
by Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
January 23, 2012 - 1:20pm (Print)
On the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, women are watching, and they are angry at what they see.
Roe v. Wade News Footage, 1973: Original CBS Clip
On the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (which was yesterday, 01/22), we remember the original decision as it was broadcasted on the news on January 22, 1973.
Gone Too Far? Reproductive Politics in the Time of Obama
January 23, 2012 - 9:32am (Print)
What about abortion gives it staying power as the central issue in domestic politics, even in the period of the worst economic situation since the Great Depression of the 1930s? This is a question well worth pursuing.
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Anti-Abortion Harassment and Violence Still Stifle Access
January 23, 2012 - 9:30am (Print)
Although the clinic blockades of the 1980s and early 1990s, called "rescues" by anti-abortion activists, are fewer than they used to be thanks to 1994's Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act [FACE], the ever-present threat of violence remains a fact of life for providers.
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Roe at 39: Sometimes the Sky Does Fall
by Casey Martinson, Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes (PPSFL)
January 21, 2012 - 12:09pm (Print)
Earlier this week, Washington Post columnist David Milbank leveled criticism at both sides of the debate over reproductive rights. He said the pro-choice crowd should “drop the sky-is-falling warnings about Roe and acknowledge that…not every compromise means a slippery slope to the back alley." Unfortunately, Milbank is being more than a little naïve.
Roe at 39: Celebrate Roe by Taking Action to Ensure Abortion Is Both Legal and Accessible
January 21, 2012 - 12:06pm (Print)
January 22, 2012, marks the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Reflecting on this, I am reminded of an interview with a woman who, when asked what she thought about the fact that Medicaid would not cover her abortion care said, “I wish women had a right [to Medicaid coverage of abortion]…. I think women should have that option…. There’s a lot of things to having a right to choose.”
