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International Women’s Day was Saturday, March 8. But it is not too late to share this call to end forced abortion in China: Honoring the continuing significance of International Women’s Day, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers has called for the end of forced abortion in China. China’s One Child Policy has caused more violence against women […]
The Turtle Bay and Beyond blog is reporting on Planned Parenthood’s plan to distribute the dangerous Depo-Provera contraceptive drug to women in Zambia: Despite scientific research finding women using the contraceptive Depo Provera are at higher risk to transmit HIV/AIDS and develop breast cancer, Planned Parenthood plans to widely distribute the injectable to women in […]
By Theresa Bonopartis I can certainly tell you what a coerced abortion feels like. I remember it as clearly as if it happened yesterday. I was a pregnant teenager kicked out of the house, isolated and alone. Nowhere to go, no one to help, no money, no job, nothing. I remember the desperation , feeling […]
By Priscilla Coleman, Ph.D. In February 2011, Philadelphia resident Tiffany Gillespie, 24, was six months pregnant with her 3rd child when she was allegedly shot to death by her boyfriend, Aaron Fitzpatrick. The killing apparently followed an argument wherein Fitzpatrick tried to convince her to have an abortion and she refused. A paper published in […]
“… [T]his is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams.” The president used these words today in a statement affirming Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling allowing abortion that was handed down 41 years ago today. No doubt he wasn’t talking about unborn children, since abortion certainly […]