Commentary
When Access To Abortion Is Too Difficult, Women Turn To Do-It-Youself Means
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
May 23, 2012 - 3:51pm (Print)
We still sort of have "legal and rare," it's the "safe" that's beginning to be a problem.
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Here We Go Again: House Proposes Slashing International Family Planning Programs and Reinstating Global Gag Rule
by Chloë Cooney, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
May 22, 2012 - 8:52pm (Print)
Last week, the House Appropriations Committee proposed to cut funding for international family planning programs and impose harmful restrictions on women’s access to essential health care — including the global gag rule and prohibiting U.S. contributions to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.
Motherhood: An Exercise in Fear Management and a Vision for Courage
by Aimee Santos-Lyons, Western State Center
and Strong Families, Strong Families
May 22, 2012 - 12:49pm (Print)
What if all the grassroots groups who work with the families who are consistently pushed to the margins and thrown under the bus talked about their causes as if they were all connected? What if we worked as if we were facing the same stigma and hate? What if I, in my parenting, felt connected to immigrant mamas fighting to reclaim their community? What if I, in my resistance, understood deeply my relationship to mothers who lose their children to juvenile justice, foster care systems, and/or incarceration?
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Video Restrictions in India and the Growing Effort by Governments to Restrict Our Rights to Freedom of Information
by Marianne Møllmann, Amnesty International
May 22, 2012 - 8:31am (Print)
This week, several video-sharing websites were blocked by the two main internet service providers in India in response to a court order related to movie piracy. These developments are worrying.
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Recital Revelations: When it Comes to the Over-Sexualization of Young Girls, We Are the Problem
by Martha Kempner, RH Reality Check
May 22, 2012 - 7:48am (Print)
Last weekend I had a revelation. It was well into the second hour of an interminable dance recital and little boys were twirling little girls in mock romance while the audience cheered, and it hit me; when it comes to the sexualization of young girls, we are the problem. We are society. We are the ones who send our girls mixed messages.
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History Has Not Been Kind To "The Exorcist"
by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
May 21, 2012 - 8:15am (Print)
Author and screenwriter William Peter Blatty, who wrote "The Exorcist", is mad that Georgetown University isn't hateful enough towards women. This shouldn't be surprising, since he's the author of virulent anti-woman propaganda.
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All Things Sex and Pop Culture
by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
May 20, 2012 - 9:13pm (Print)
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Criminal Injustice: Arrested and Detained Parents Are Denied Opportunity to Contact and Make Arrangements for Their Children
by Melanie Tom, Forward Together
and Laura Jiménez, California Latinas for Reproductive Justice (CLRJ)
and Strong Families, Strong Families
May 20, 2012 - 12:22pm (Print)
A part of keeping families safe and secure is making sure that in times of misfortune, children and their parents are able to communicate.
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Stay Out of My Bedroom: Women of Color Have the Right to Decide If and When to Parent
If you happen to be a woman of color, you simply don’t have any business that is your own, as far as society is concerned. The Jezebel and Welfare Queen stereotypes shape the responses you receive from others when you have a belly full of baby. So, the next time someone asks me how many more babies I’m going to have, I will have to respond with a “Girllllll, stay out my bedroom.”
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None of the GOP's "Experts" on Abortion Policy in D.C. Are Actually From D.C.
May 18, 2012 - 5:19pm (Print)
If Christy Zink had carried her pregnancy to term and the baby lived through it, which wasn’t guaranteed, it would have suffered a short life of seizures and near-constant pain. If H.R. 3803 were in effect in 2009, she and the doctors who advised her on her options and performed the procedure would have been subject to criminal prosecution.
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