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Today is the 42nd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. Writing about the decision in a Jan. 24, 1973 editorial, The New York Times proclaimed: The Supreme Court has made a major contribution to the preservation of individual liberties and of free decision-making by its invalidation of state laws inhibiting a woman’s right to […]
As a follow up to yesterday’s post on the “septic abortion wards” myth, here is Rebecca Downs at LifeNews.com responding to one woman’s story about undergoing an illegal abortion in 1959: Diana Weiner’s story is personal and in many ways does seem “incredibly scary.” The piece fails to distinguish though how an abortion today is […]
Twenty years ago, I wish I had had an ally. Not someone who tells me that I messed up, that abortion is my only option and gives me a ride to the clinic. I wish I had had a friend to tell me that everything is going to be all right; that I don’t have […]
This past week, three abortion businesses in Louisiana filed suit over a law that would require doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their facility. Backers of the new law, which is set to go into effect Sept. 1, say that lack of admitting privileges puts women’s […]
In the [After Tiller] trailer, one of the abortionists says: “No one wants an abortion”. I agree with that statement. The real question is, if no one wants an abortion, why do we still have abortion? As a feminist and a pacifist, I don’t understand why, in 2014 we are not able to rise above […]