Tag Archives: pro-choice

Anti-Abortion Activists Hold First “Leave The Abortion Industry Day”

Jessica WakemanApril 16, 2013 //
My Son & Abortion
Avital is teaching her son about reproductive justice. Read More »
Tiller Clinic To Reopen
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The Kansas abortion clinic operated by Dr. George Tiller will reopen. Read More »
Generation Roe
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Q&A with Sarah Erdreich, author of the book "Generation Roe." Read More »
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Anti-abortion activists have many approaches to stopping abortion. One is to spread lies about the science around reproductive health. Another is to pressure women to feel guilty for terminating pregnancies, regardless of their reason. Another is to restrict abortion access through the courts. And yet another is to target the employees and property of abortion clinics, which includes harassment and violence towards abortion providers and damage to their buildings.

“Leave The Abortion Industry Day” on April 8 is one such effort towards that goal — and thankfully, an effort not involving violence. It’s a project of Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood clinic director turned anti-abortion activist; “abortion industry” is a term used by anti-abortion folks to describe people who work in the women’s health field in regards to abortion. Keep reading »

Kansas Abortion Clinic Operated By Dr. George Tiller To Reopen

Sarah GrayApril 4, 2013 //
No Abortion Clinic?
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Will Mississippi become the first state without an abortion clinic? Read More »
Clinic Open For Now
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Judge blocks law that would have closed Mississippi's one clinic. Read More »
D.C. Abortion Ban Fails
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A bill to ban abortions in D.C. after 20 weeks has failed in the House. Read More »
Finally open!
South Wind Women's Center

Finally, something positive happening for the reproductive rights of women in Kansas. Four years after abortion provider Dr. George Tiller was fatally shot by anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder in Wichita, Kansas, his clinic is re-opening.

Activist Julie Burkhart, who worked with Dr. Tiller for seven years, started the nonprofit organization Trust Women Foundation in 2010.  The foundation purchased Tiller’s old office, and after raising nearly $1 million, is ready to open the South Wind Women’s Center.

There will be some changes: unlike under Dr. Tiller, the clinic will not provide late-term abortions.  The Kansas City Star reports that despite the fact that Kansas allows abortions 22 weeks into a pregnancy, the clinic’s cutoff will be 14 weeks.  South Wind Women’s Center will also provide other women’s heath services including fertility counseling and other routine health care, like Pap smears. Keep reading »

Texas Teen Sues Parents For Right To Not Have An Abortion

Jessica WakemanFebruary 21, 2013 //
I'm A Pro-Choice Mom
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Avital is a mother who supports legal abortion. Read More »
Teen Pregnancy Drops
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American teens are slightly less pregnant than in years past. Read More »
Ab Only Sex Ed Sucks
Every teenager in Mississippi is pregnant, basically. Read More »
Glamorizing Teen Moms?
Is teen pregnancy glamorized by shows like MTV's "Teen Mom"? Read More »
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Mostly when we discuss the “right to choose,” we focus on the right to safe and legal access to abortion.  We mostly focus abortion as the “choice” because a woman’s right to make her own family planning decisions is constantly under attack from conservative politicians and the anti-abortion movement, both of which are pickled with the Religious Right.

But a woman’s right to make her own family planning decisions also includes the choice make a family — even, in a recent case out of Texas, if the woman in question is a pregnant 16-year-old girl whose parents were trying to force her to have an abortion. Keep reading »

Sarah Silverman Goes After The Bro-Choice Vote

Jessica WakemanDecember 12, 2012 //
I Took Plan B
Our writer took the morning-after-pill to thwart unwanted pregnancy. Read More »
I Had An Abortion
A mother writes about choosing to have an abortion. Read More »
"Pro-Life" No More
How one woman lost faith in the pro-life movement. Read More »
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Come At Me, Bro

No one ever really asked what the bros had to say about the Republican “war on women.” Which was sad, really, because they stood to lose quite a lot of blowies if we all had to be barefoot and pregnant. They will be ignored no longer! Now Sarah Silverman is putting that whole having-dated-Jimmy-Kimmel thing to good use and is urging bros to be bro-choice. You should watch it, bro.

Catelynn Lowell From “16 & Pregnant” Is An Anti-Abortion Extremist

Jessica WakemanDecember 3, 2012 //
Engaged!
tyler and catelynn from "teen mom"
Tyler and Catelynn from "Teen Mom" set a date. Read More »
Get Off "Teen Mom"
Catelynn gave her baby up for adoption. Why is she on the show? Read More »
Catfight: College Fund
Is Jezebel's college fund for Tyler and Catelynn a sucky idea? Read More »
Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra

Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra from MTV’s “16 and Pregnant” and “Teen Mom” have been, surprisingly, one of the more controversial couples on the two shows. Catelynn was the only teen mom in the first season to carry her pregnancy to term and put the child up for adoption; the little girl, Carly, is now a toddler and the adoptive family is still in touch with the birth parents. Over the years, some people have wondered why Catelynn and Tyler are even on “Teen Mom” anymore, since she is not a day-to-day parent like the others on the show. Some have even suggested MTV might be exploitatively harming these two for keeping them on a show that’s sole focus is the child they gave up for adoption.

Catelynn and Tyler are in the news less now that younger casts of “Teen Mom” are in the limelight. To their credit, they haven’t had public battles with drug abuse, domestic violence and mental illness quite like Amber Portwood, another teen mom from the first season. They seem like basically good kids with solid heads on their shoulders; last year the two even got engaged and set a date for 2013.

But lately Catelynn’s been making headlines recently for another reason: she’s an anti-abortion extremist. Keep reading »

Did The Election Reinvigorate Pro-Choice Support?

Jessica WakemanNovember 16, 2012 //
  • All the rapey nonsense of the 2012 election seems to have reinvigorated support amongst Americans to identify themselves as “pro-choice.” We have to remember, though, that when asked about support for legal abortion, people give different answers depending on how the question is phrased: “pro-choice” versus “pro-life,” “support legal abortion in all cases” versus “support legal abortion in some cases” versus “never support legal abortion.” So while I’m happy to hear that in a recent Rasmussen Reports poll, 54 percent of likely U.S. voted described themselves as “pro-choice,” I know it’s not as simple as that.  [Jezebel]
  • Check out this trailer for “Why Do You Have Black Dolls?”, a new documentary about why little kids need black babydolls. [Uptown Magazine]
  • The United States now only ranks 79th in the world for women’s political representation. Only 79th, you guys! (That’s sarcasm, in case you didn’t pick up on it.) [Ms. Magazine] Keep reading »

It Turns Out Declaring War On Women Is Not Such A Successful Election Strategy

Jessica WakemanNovember 7, 2012 //
Pro-Choice Victory!
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All the pro-choice women victorious in last night's election. Read More »
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Who’d've thunk?! Suggesting that pregnancy from rape is “God’s will,” that some rape is “legitimate” while other rape is not, and saying a woman’s body has “a way of shutting the whole thing down” so pregnancy does not occur from rape DOES NOT MAKE WOMEN WANT TO VOTE FOR YOU. Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin may have found two women — including one who was raped and had an abortion — to appear in a campaign ad proclaiming him the second coming of Gloria Steinem, but the rest of us ladies were not buying it. Keep reading »

The Soapbox: How I Lost Faith In The Pro-Life Movement

Libby AnneNovember 5, 2012 //
I Had An Abortion
A mother writes about choosing to have an abortion. Read More »
Free BC, Fewer Abortions
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Free birth control means fewer abortions, says study. Read More »
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All of The Frisky's posts about reproductive rights. Read More »

This piece was originally published at Patheos.com and is being reprinted with permission.

The spring of my sophomore year of college I was president of my university’s Students for Life chapter. The fall of my junior year of college I cut my ties with the pro-life movement. Five years later I have lost the last shred of faith I had in that movement. This is my story. Keep reading »

Roe Vs. Wade Is Not As Safe As You Think

Jessica WakemanNovember 2, 2012 //
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Watch Australians Dance In A Pro-Choice Flash Mob!

Jessica WakemanOctober 10, 2012 //
I Had An Abortion
A mother writes about choosing to have an abortion. Read More »
Free BC, Fewer Abortions
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Free birth control means fewer abortions, says study. Read More »
I Took Plan B
Our writer took the morning-after-pill to thwart unwanted pregnancy. Read More »
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No Stigma Over Abortion

I love any time activism is infused with joy. That’s why I’m loving these Australians who held a pro-choice flash mob where they all danced on the streets of Melbourne to Florence + The Machine’s “Dog Days Are Over.”  These Aussies — both women and men, old and young — woreT-shirts reading “Abortion: a fact of life” as part of Reproductive Choice Australia’s End The Stigma campaign. It’s an attention-getting stunt that’s moving without being in your face.

After the jump, you’ll also want to watch ethicist Leslie Cannold in her TEDxCanberra 2012 talk, “I Had An Abortion … Or Maybe I Didn’t.”

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