abortion providers
Next Generation Access: Medical Students Fill A Void
January 23, 2012 - 9:15pm (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.
Anti-Choice Extremists Introduce New Intimidation Tactic
Rachel Maddow reports on a new abortion doctor database compiled by long-standing, anti- choice extremist group "Operation Rescue" and its implicit, terroristic threat of violence. Furthermore, all of the 2012 GOP candidates have expressed agreement with the "personhood" agenda, a position well to the right of most Americans.
Report: TRAP Laws in Virginia
Recent news report on TRAP laws (the realities and the politics) in Virginia.
A Doctor Testifies: Wisconsin SB 306 Will Endanger My Patients
by Fredrik Broekhuizen MD, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin
December 14, 2011 - 9:25am (Print)
Wisconsin SB 306 will greatly impede the continuity of care and put up obstacles between a woman and her primary care physician. It is an unacceptable intrusion into the doctor-patient relationship because, among other things, it requires abortion providers to give patients inaccurate post-procedure instructions.
Pivotal Positions: Transforming Abortion Provider Stigma
by Stigma Shame and Sexuality Series, Gender Across Borders
September 22, 2011 - 8:40am (Print)
Few of us would sign up for a job that would pose risks to our personal safety and our family’s safety. Yet that is exactly what many—if not most—health-care providers sign up for when they decide to deliver abortion care in the United States.
George Tiller: Courage in the Face of Adversity
May 26, 2011 - 8:54am (Print)
I feel so lucky to work in a clinic where we can offer women respectful and safe services regardless of income or medical acuity.
George Tiller's Work Must Continue
May 26, 2011 - 8:50am (Print)
George Tiller used to say "There is no Q. U. I. T. in G. E. O. R. G. E." The word "quit" was not in his vocabulary, and it should not be in ours.
Terrorizing Abortion Providers: The “Other Abortion War” Quietly Continues
by Carole Joffe, University of California
April 5, 2011 - 6:54pm (Print)
This war on providers has been going on so long it has become essentially “the new normal,” with significant public attention only when a provider is murdered.
Discipline for Snoop Dog Kline. Bad Dog!
by Julie Burkhart, TrustWomenPAC
February 10, 2011 - 12:49pm (Print)
Abortion Providers Need Your Support
by Douglas Laube, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health
January 19, 2011 - 10:00pm (Print)
I began providing abortions in 1974. I never imagined that in the year 2011, I would see so many efforts to separate patients from doctors and deprive women of safe, legal health care.
