“Three years into a pro-life administration, USAID is still promoting the failed pro-population control, anti-family policies of the past. It is time for the Bush Administration to clean house…All that is to say that, at USAID, the business of sterilizing, aborting, and contracepting the world goes on as usual.”
“The fact that (the FDA) is even considering (OTC approval for ‘Plan B’ emergency contraception) is another example of the power of the feminist dogma, a power that trumps threats to young women’s health from this potentially dangerous and certainly unproven method of birth control and abortion.”
“After World War II, population control in developing countries was promoted as a means to secure America's access to raw materials in these countries.”
“Contraception is a pervasive, metastasizing moral cancer that destroys the Church, the family, the youth, and the nation. It empties seminaries and novitiates; it engenders runaway VD (think of AIDS!); it has no redeeming features whatsoever, being intrinsically evil or dishonest…”
“Millions of jobs and entire industries are supported by teen sexual irresponsibility. The abortion business alone generates up to one billion dollars annually...Imagine how many jobs would be lost if kids quit playing musical beds with one another!”
“(Nigeria-based Action Family Foundation president Dr. Emmanuel I.B. Okechukwu) says…‘that (the) condom and the activities it engenders constitute the single most important factor promoting HIV spread around the world.”
“The morning-after pill (MAP) lacks testing for safety to women...The drug owner encourages multiple sex partners (putting women at risk of sexually transmitted diseases, or STDs), and endorses frequent use of the drug, though it has not conducted studies on multiple use.”
“It won't explain the blatant and aggressive promotion of promiscuity among the young, or why they would recommend reliance on fragile rubber sheaths to protect against potentially deadly diseases. There is something else behind their motivation. These people become incensed when the word abstinence is even mentioned.”
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?
Illinois's reproductive justice advocates are backing one of the most comprehensive reproductive health bills the state has ever seen. And they're bringing in new allies for the fight.
For the first time since international adoption began growing in popularity two decades ago, so many countries have either shut their doors to adoption, tightened their rules or increased domestic adoption that it's now far harder to adopt overseas.
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.
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.
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.
After more than a hundred years of legally allowing women access to a therapeutic abortion, in October 2006 the Nicaraguan National Assembly banned this procedure in all circumstances. Now women's health groups are working to mitigate the damage.
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.
In her new book, Opting In, feminist activist and author Amy Richards explores feminist mothering. Laura Barcella talked to her in San Francisco about her newest "baby."
Feel like you're not the man you thought you could be? Your local megachurch has a solution: every woman deprived of her reproductive rights, every gay person deprived of the right to marry suddenly makes you look manly by comparison.
In India, there are laws to prevent dowry, domestic violence, sexual harassment and child marriage. But in the country's social context, these laws aren't very effective.
Just thirty-five Senators in office are strongly pro-choice. But this November, when a third of the Senate seats will be up for grabs, voters have a chance to increase that score.
