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Another Reminder That The Anti-Choice Movement Is Class Warfare
If having more puppies than you can afford is a burden, imagine having more kids than you can afford. In my work, I focus a lot on the sex-phobia and misogyny underlying the anti-choice movement, but in a very real way, it’s also about limiting the opportunities that lower income…
Republicans cite abortion, home schooling to defeat UN disability treaty
Republican Senators on Tuesday voted to block a United Nations treaty that would have helped to protect disabled Americans — including veterans — while they are in foreign countries. Thirty-eight Republicans voted no, giving them five votes more than necessary to defeat the United Nations Convention on the Rights of…
Thousands of Irish protestors call for new abortion laws
Thousands in Dublin marched on Nov. 17 to protest the death of a woman refused an abortion in Ireland while she was miscarrying, reported Al Jazeera English. “Never again!” the protestors chanted while carrying banners bearing the image of Savita Halappanavar, the 31-year-old Indian dentist who died of blood poisoning.…
Hundreds of Irish women sought abortions in Britain in past three years
Amid pro-choice rally at Savita Halappanavar’s death, activists reveal the rapes and illness forcing women to seek abortions Hundreds of Irish women, including dozens who had been raped, have life-threatening illnesses or are under the age of 16, have been forced to seek abortions in Britain in the past three…
Ohio anti-abortion ‘heartbeat’ bill sees action in lame duck session
An Ohio bill aimed at restricting abortion access will get another shot in the legislature this upcoming lame duck session, reported the Community Press and Recorder, thanks to new cooperation among anti-abortion rights groups. Called the heartbeat bill, it would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which…
Draconian border security keeps Mexican women from abortion services in San Diego
Women who live in parts of Mexico where abortion is illegal have long crossed the U.S.-Mexican border to obtain abortions in U.S. border cities like San Diego, but those numbers might be declining thanks to draconian border security and other changes, a new study published in Health Care for Women International…
Republican candidate: ‘The rape thing’ doesn’t justify abortion
Republican John Koster, who is running for Congress in Washington state, said over the weekend that “the rape thing” did not justify a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy. When asked about his view of abortion at a Sunday fundraiser, Koster said the practice should be prohibited unless the life…
Republican Rep says mistress wasn’t pregnant and didn’t abort
In his first public statements since he was accused of pressuring a woman with whom he’d had an affair into getting an abortion, U.S. Congressional Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN) claimed that the woman turned out not to be pregnant. According to the Associated Press, DesJarlais did not dispute the contents…
Romney: Abortion not part of my agenda
Mitt Romney on Tuesday said he had no plans to push for limited access to abortions in the U.S. if elected president. “There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda,” the Republican presidential nominee told The Des Moines Register. Romney…
Moroccan navy blocks Dutch ‘abortion boat’
The Moroccan navy on Thursday blocked the Mediterranean harbour in which a controversial Dutch “abortion ship” was due to dock in the first such trip to a Muslim country, one of the organisers said. “They have blocked the harbour. We can see a big warship in front of the harbour,”…
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