In a satirical response to Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s extreme anti-abortion views and strong support for the outrageous restrictions on clinics called Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers, or TRAP laws, a group of Virginia feminists created a campaign called Cooch Watch. Here’s their description: The Cooch has been keeping an eye on your vagina, [...]
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 [...]
Organizing around an issue and being a part of a political process is all very exciting, until you see those systems fail you and your peers. Yesterday, the Virginia Board of Health met to decide on regulations that the Governor proposed for first trimester abortion clinics. These regulations put clinics that provide first trimester abortion [...]
Wednesday at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), about 200 students, faculty, community members, politicians and activists gathered for an electrifying speak out against the Virginia TRAP laws. The Speak Out Against Virginia’s TRAP Laws blog describes the TRAP laws as “a bill that classifies women’s health centers in the state as a category of hospitals, [...]
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