I didn’t think I was going to wake up this morning and feel like I was back in 2011. I had just graduated college. I was wrapping up an internship with Organizing for America – the election was so far off we weren’t even calling ourselves Obama for America yet. And Mississippi was making news [...]
I am a Virginian through and through – I was born here, raised here, educated here, and I have worked here for all of my twenty two years. I love this commonwealth (not state; that’s right, I know VA’s quirks) with all of my heart, but I can’t trust it when it comes to reproductive [...]
When I arrived at the FMF office last Friday, I had no idea that I was going to spend my afternoon participating in a counter protest for the annual anti-choice March for Life. If I had known, I might have prepared for the January weather better and made a protest sign of my own. [...]
The first time I stood outside of an abortion clinic was in the summer of 2010. Activists like me were spending the week defending a clinic in Charlotte, North Carolina, that had been targeted for a national event by a rowdy anti-choice group called Operation Save America (OSA). The first time I saw these protestors [...]
Last week, Michigan state Representatives Lisa Brown and Barb Byrum were banned from speaking on the floor by Majority Floor Leader Jim Stamas. The Michigan House was debating a package of three anti-choice bills that represent an unprecedented assault on reproductive rights. During this debate, these two female representatives made the mistake of using the terms [...]
by Jean Silver-Isenstadt, MD, PhD, National Physicians Alliance I attended a health policy conference last week where the buzz was women. The question on everyone’s mind was: Why aren’t American women angrier that every last one of the Republican candidates for president has threatened to repeal a law that has brought the greatest advance for [...]
Yesterday was the annual Right to Life March in Washington, DC. This march is held every year to counter the 39th anniversary of the historical Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. Thousands of “pro-life” or anti-choice, as they are called, enthusiasts with signs depicting aborted fetuses and banners hailing their belief in God and [...]
Monday the 23rd marked the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal for women in 1973 and a resounding triumph for the feminist cause. There are numerous events hosted in remembrance of this court case. The largest organized event is the annual March for Life where thousands of [...]
Has the price of birth control ever kept you from buying it? The number one prescription drug for women ages 18-44 years, the average women pays $50 a month for birth control. This is an obvious barrier to access, particularly for low-income women and students. Reproductive rights are a fundamental aspect of women’s [...]
The 39th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion is fast approaching, so on January 23rd let’s sit back and let the joy of abortion access just wash over us. Wait, scratch that. What’s been going on in this country since the last Roe anniversary? 2011 saw an unprecedented number of abortion restrictions [...]
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