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New Study Confirms Obamacare's Birth Control Mandate Will Reduce Abortion Rate | ThinkProgress

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:07:03 +0000

A new study focusing on low-income women in St. Louis, MO concludes that expanding access to free contraception — just as the health care reform law does through its provision to provide birth control without a co-pay — leads to significantly lower rates of unintended teen pregnancy and abortion. Researchers found that when women weren’t prohibited by cost, they chose more effective, long-lasting forms of birth control and experienced many fewer unintended pregnancies as a result.

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New Study Confirms Obamacare's Birth Control Mandate Will Reduce Abortion Rate | ThinkProgress

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:07:03 +0000

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Reproductive Rights

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 21:18:22 +0000

Third, I see birth as a firm dividing line because until then the fetus inhabits a woman’s body. A woman’s body is private property – it’s hers. She shouldn’t be forced to let another creature live in it. Once that other creature is out of her body, that’s when it gets rights. Until then, any rights it gets would be taking away from the woman’s rights over her own body. And to me, that matters.

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How I Lost Faith in the “Pro-Life” Movement

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:29:28 +0000

The reality is that so-called pro-life movement is not about saving babies. It’s about regulating sex. That’s why they oppose birth control. That’s why they want to ban abortion even though doing so will simply drive women to have dangerous back alley abortions. That’s why they want to penalize women who take public assistance and then dare to have sex, leaving an exemption for those who become pregnant from rape. It’s not about babies. If it were about babies, they would be making access to birth control widespread and free and creating a comprehensive social safety net so that no woman finds herself with a pregnancy she can’t afford. They would be raising money for research on why half of all zygotes fail to implant and working to prevent miscarriages. It’s not about babies. It’s about controlling women. It’s about making sure they have consequences for having unapproved sex.

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Lawmaker Barred After Vagina Comment

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:52:57 +0000

Michigan House Republicans prohibited state Rep. Lisa Brown (D) from speaking on the floor after she ended a speech against a bill restricting abortions by referencing her female anatomy, the Detroit News reports.

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15-Year-Old Girl Faces Life in Prison for a Miscarriage? Why Conservatives Are Criminalizing Pregnant Women | Gender | AlterNet

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:47:09 +0000

Gibbs is the first woman in Mississippi to be charged with murder relating to the loss of her unborn baby. But her case is by no means isolated. Across the US more and more prosecutions are being brought that seek to turn pregnant women into criminals.

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slacktivist » The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy Meal

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:32:00 +0000

In 1979, McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal. Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception.

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slacktivist » The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy Meal

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:32:00 +0000

In 1979, McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal. Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception.

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Abortion saved my life - Abortion - Salon.com

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:09:56 +0000

My two kids at home almost lost their mother because someone decided that my life was worth less than that of a fetus that was going to die anyway. My husband had told them exactly what my regular doctor said, and the ER doctor had already warned us what would have to happen. Yet none of this mattered when confronted by the idea that no one needs an abortion. You shouldn’t need to know the details of why a woman aborts to trust her to make the best decision for herself. I don’t regret my abortion, but I would also never use my situation to suggest that the only time another woman should have the procedure is when her life is at stake. After my family found out I’d had an abortion, I got a phone call from a cousin who felt the need to tell me I was wrong to have interfered with God’s plan. And in that moment I understood exactly what kind of people judge a woman’s reproductive choices.

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Abortion saved my life - Abortion - Salon.com

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:09:56 +0000

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Komen's Excuse for Defunding Planned Parenthood Applies to Bank of America Too -- So When Will it Sever Ties With BofA? | AlterNet

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:56:38 +0000

To sum up, Komen is perfectly content with accepting millions from an entity under investigation for fraud across the country but when it comes to dispensing a portion of those and other funds to an entity that saves lives but that's facing a sham of an investigation, Komen draws the line.

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10 things the iPhone Siri will help you get instead of an abortion | The Raw Story

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:24:18 +0000

It’s an experience that’s being replicated by women around the country: despite plentiful online information about actual places to get an abortion, Siri doesn’t seem to provide it. It’s a similar experience for women seeking emergency contraception: in New York City, Siri doesn’t know what Plan B is and, asked for emergency contraception, offers up a Google results page of definitions. Didn't we learn from HAL 9000 that it doesn't really pay to give your tools their own opinionated personalities?

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Human Nature : Contraceptive Fudge: Addendum

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:10:16 +0000

"As a pharmacist, you have every right to refuse to fill contraceptive prescriptions. But your customers have every right to boycott your store, and your employer has every right to fire you. If you don't like your employer's policy, open your own pharmacy."

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Why I am an abortion doctor

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:12:42 +0000

"I can take a woman, in the biggest trouble she has ever experienced in her life, and by performing a five-minute operation, in comfort and dignity, I can give her back her life"

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Alas, a blog » Blog Archive » Do they really believe that abortion is murder?

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:12:42 +0000

"pro-choicers tend to think that the abortion criminalization movement is motivated by a desire - perhaps an unconscious desire - to punish women for having sex."

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