If you’re looking for advice about your unplanned pregnancy and you walk into a pregnancy counseling center run by a faith-based organization, you’re probably not expecting objective suggestions. But you’re also probably not expecting them to lie to you. Sadly, a survey of 10 British centres operated by Christian and anti-abortion organizations found that most ...
Focus on the Family is a conservative pro-life, anti-birth control, anti-sex education, anti-gay organisation. In spite of CBS’s rule on no advocacy in advertising, they have given approval for a 30 second advertisement to be played during the Superbowl tomorrow (February 7), a tv slot that will have up to 100 million viewers. CBS executives approved a script for ...
Dr. Tiller, the American abortion doctor killed in May 2009, was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by NARAL Pro-Choice yesterday. They created this video (after jump) as a tribute to his life and his work. His family accepted the award on his behalf.
When we trust we give up power. We close our eyes and fall backwards into the arms we hope are waiting to catch us. For centuries women trusted the government to make decisions about our bodies, our livelihoods. We put faith in the system that we thought had our best interests at heart.
Mick, Morning Quickie
Today is the 37th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the historic ruling that legalised abortion in America. NARAL Pro-Choice is asking people to blog about what “Trust Women” means to them in honour of the abortion doctor, Dr. Tiller, who was killed last May and who often wore a badge with this phrase on it.
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