Cara, Feministe AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. November 19, 2008. I’m hugely pessimistic for the short-term, but optimistic about where this is going to go come January.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. August 12, 2008. The left and the right pincers of the anti-abortion movement are slowly squeezing together.
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. July 29, 2008. "The anti-choice movement opposes contraception, the number one way the vast majority of fertility-age American women avoid abortion."
Cristina Page, RH Reality Check. June 25, 2008. It's pro-choice policies that result in dramatic declines in the need for abortion, and it's the pro-choice candidates who truly value life.
Cynthia L. Cooper, Marjorie Signer, The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. June 9, 2008. Christian medical groups have started a major campaign to demand that physicians be permitted to refuse medical care to patients.
Laura J. Winter, Women's eNews. June 6, 2008. A loss by Britain's Labour Party earlier this month is emboldening anti-choice activists to study their U.S. counterparts' playbook.
Katha Pollitt, The Nation. May 26, 2008. Anti-choicers in South Dakota are again attempting to ban abortion. So where are the progressive voters and organizations?
Cristina Page, RH Reality Check. May 6, 2008. Birth control is the best way to lower the abortion rate. So why are anti-choicers rallying against it and claiming that "the pill kills babies"?
Lucinda Marshall, AlterNet. April 27, 2008. Abortion is not an isolated issue of choice, but part of a complex set of issues that reproductive rights advocates need to address holistically.
Dana Stone, AlterNet. April 26, 2008. Anti-choicers in Oklahoma have pushed through a bill that requires doctors to perform invasive ultrasounds, even if the patients say no.
Ema, The Well Timed Period. April 22, 2008. An Orwellian new bill claims to "protect" pregnant women as it compromises their health and removes their basic rights.
Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise AlterNet: PEEK. April 18, 2008. Conservatives like Drudge are going crazy over a story about abortion art, but one blogger is skeptical.
Pablo Rodriguez, M.D., RH Reality Check. April 16, 2008. Call it censored, call it buried, call it lost -- the search term “abortion” was all of the above for approximately a month on POPLINE.
Allyson Kirk, RH Reality Check. April 3, 2008. A woman seeking an abortion mistakenly visited a Crisis Pregnancy Center, and found herself inundated with anti-choice propaganda.
Cindy Cooper, Words of Choice AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. March 28, 2008. It may seem weird at first glance, but wouldn't it be great if all anti-choice politicians would identify themselves as clearly?
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. March 27, 2008. It's time for rational people to cast an eye of skepticism on the unscientific and wholly irrational claims of the anti-choice movement.
Dana Goldstein, RH Reality Check. March 26, 2008. Anti-choice activists claim that Obama voted against protecting infants. In fact, he cast his votes for choice and for women's health.
Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check. March 14, 2008. Anti-choicers demonstrate at a children's movie to claim that "a person's a person no matter how small" -- unless that person has a uterus.
Marjorie Signer, Cynthia L. Cooper, RH Reality Check. February 26, 2008. Ultrasounds are the latest trend in anti-choice activism. But what "pro-lifers" won't tell you is that they are putting pregnant women at risk.
Marcy Bloom, RH Reality Check. February 25, 2008. Anti-choicers panic over "abortion tourism," but only the most privileged women can escape local "pro-life" laws. The rest simply suffer.
Carole Joffe, AlterNet. February 25, 2008. Pro-choicers need to remember we have a silent but powerful community of supporters -- and they show up in the most personal places.
