Category Archives: Abortion & reproductive rights

NARAL's Endorsement of Lincoln Chafee

Bigwigs in the Rhode Island Democratic party backed Jim Langevin, an anti-abortion Democrat, in the primary race to run against pro-choice incumbent Republican Lincoln Chafee. NARAL made it clear that it would strongly support Langevin’s pro-choice opponents in the primary … Continue reading

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More anti-women-having-sex and anti-comprehensive sex-ed from the Rightwing

I’m beginning to loose track of all the hysterically anti-woman-having-sex, anti-comprehensive sex-ed, and anti-contraception rhetoric we’ve heard from the Radical Rightwing, which is now being taught to young people in schools and has supplanted reason and science. Most of this … Continue reading

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Fear of Filibusters Trumps Women's Rights Concerns

After weeks of controversy, it seems the filibuster issue has reached an end at the hands of supposed ‘centerists’ of the Republican and Democratic parties. Citing what he felt could be damage to the institution of the senate, CNN reported … Continue reading

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Getting rid of religious superstition in abstinence-only programs

Abstinence-Only programs have never really been based on facts, instead it’s mostly absurd and patently false information in an attempt to indoctrinate young people with Medieval ideas about sex, the reproductive system, pregnancy, homosexuality, STDs/VDs, and reproductive rights. These programs … Continue reading

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Parental Notification Laws before the Supreme Court

Laws that require female minors to seek parental notification before obtaining an abortion are being debated before the Supreme Court. Some are calling for exceptions to the law to be made in case the girl’s life and health is in … Continue reading

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Pregnant Young Woman Stands Up To Graduation Ban

I guess it shouldn’t come as any surprise that Roman Catholic activists are plunging ahead with the anti-female messages that have been consistent in the papal infrastructure of the new Pope Benedict XVI. At the same time, I couldn’t help … Continue reading

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Your Grandmother's and Cleopatra's contraception

According to this Women’s eNews article, there’s a new museum in Cleveland, Ohio called the History of Contraception that displays contraceptive devices and remedies used back in the good ole days and ancient times. Ironically, the museum opened right when … Continue reading

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The 'Fill My Pills Now!' guide on the war on women's reproductive rights

‘Fill My Pills Now’ is a website and an affiliate of Planned Parenthood and an extension of Save Roe, which has plenty of very important information on not only the attacks on Roe v. Wade, but also pharmacists’ attack on … Continue reading

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Horrible track records and the possible rolling back of women's rights and racial civil rights

Senator Frist is determined to roll women’s rights and racial civil rights back a couple of decades via to extremist conservative judicial nominees–both female and one African-American. Frist and his comrades are insidiously playing the race and sex card in … Continue reading

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As we keep rollin' back the clock to the ominous times for women

Dark days loom ahead for women who value their reproductive rights. With religious arch-conservative pharmacists being given special privileges to deny women access to their birth control prescriptions, hospitals refusing to give or even tell a rape victim about emergency … Continue reading

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