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.
Scott Roeder, the murderer of Dr. Tiller, one of only a handful of those who perform late-term abortions in the USA, was sentenced to life in prison today. I am glad this has happened but it scares me that Roeder’s supporters say that “the outcome would only encourage more violence.” Roeder, of course, feels that ...
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.
Speculation is abounding on the net that the ex-Director of Planned Parenthood was a plant by the anti-choice lobby and working to infiltrate Planned Parenthood in order to bring them down. As conspiracy theories go, it’s a little weak. Abby Johnson resigned with a statement that she is now anti-choice after working at Planned Parenthood for more than eight years. She ...
Rather than dressing as the slutty devil or witch this year, why not dress as Roe vs. Wade, abstinence-only education, or STDs? Planned Parenthood New York City blog has a list of innovative and intelligent options for women that have been suggested to them from some popular feminists on the net.
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