Vice President for Public Policy, of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, Karen Handel resigned on Tuesday following the outstanding public backlash against the organization. Handel and the organization received major criticism for supporting new grant guidelines that excluded Planned Parenthood. Seen by some as another step in the “War Against Women,” the ...
Breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure has ended its relationship with affiilates of Planned Parenthood, effectively cutting off grants of approximately $600,000 per annum from Komen. Komen’s given reason is the pending investigation by Congress into Planned Parenthood, while Planned Parenthood have accused Komen of taking the decision following pressure from ...
As feminists, we get it ingrained in us that choice is every person’s (read: woman’s) right. But what if things weren’t as simple as that? Choice is a common rhetoric used by many feminists and social justice activists. The topic ranges from jobs to abortion; sexuality and contraception to marriage; how we look to what ...
Rick Santorum, I feel sorry for any daughter of yours! Santorum, a candidate to become the Republican nominee for the presidential race late this year, says that if his daughter conceived a baby through rape he would counsel her against an abortion calling the baby a “gift from God.” If any woman became pregnant following rape ...
Sure, the UK may have the Queen as the head of state, a woman whose job description also includes Defender of the Faith. The faith in question is the Church of England but despite this, I think the UK does a pretty good job of separating church and state. Indeed, our Deputy Prime Minister may ...
Today is the 39th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the court case that made abortion legal in the USA. In honour of this day we are posting a video that explains some of the facts about who really gets abortions (not teenagers) and why (poverty and already having too many children to look after), in ...
A Conservative MP backed by the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada would like to take a closer look at the contents of your womb. Not to be outdone by the increasingly surreal abortion debate imposed on our neighbours to the south, Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth is having a good think about tabling a private member’s bill ...
In Maryland, two doctors are now facing murder charges after allegedly providing late-term abortions to five patients. During the 16-month investigation, authorities found that Steven Brigham and Nicola Riley initiated abortions in a New Jersey clinic (owned by Brigham) by giving pregnant women preliminary injections, and they then finished the procedures in Maryland. Women should ...
Women have had the right to get abortions in Canada since the 1960s. Despite this, some people think that this is wrong and they want to make their voices heard. One such woman is Linda Gibbons. This 63-year-old hangs around abortion clinics trying to intimidate women. She believes she has a God-given right to try ...
“Jingle pills!” was the headline that woke me out of my stupor after a 10-hour overnight flight from the other end of the world. “Good grief, what’s this,” I thought to myself as I picked up the paper and jumped on a train home. Turns out that Life, a rather unimaginatively named British pro-life group, ...
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