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Arizona Legislature Considers Numerous Abortion Restrictions

by Cara February 28, 2009

Just as anti-choice, time-wasting nonsense gets cleared up in South Dakota, we find ourselves some more in Arizona.  Indeed, as Miriam and Ann note, anti-choicers seem to be going pretty wild all over the nation. This particular piece of ugly Arizona legislation would impose a whole ton of restrictions: Legislation to impose the first new [...]

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Senate Committee Kills Anti-Choice Bill

by Cara February 11, 2009

My prediction from yesterday turned out to be correct! Hooray!  I can’t say just how glad I am to see this dangerous proposal shot down.  Maybe now legislators will finally get the message.  There are more than enough abortion restrictions in place in South Dakota.  The last thing you need is more.  And, once again, [...]

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Anti-Choice South Dakota Bill Stalls in Senate

by Cara February 10, 2009

The insidious proposed South Dakota bill that would force doctors to be available to talk with patients for a full two hours on the day before an abortion procedure is performed (even if the patient does not show up to the meeting), has thankfully stalled in the Senate. A bill to require a doctor to [...]

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South Dakota Fails in Abortion Ban; Attempts Death by a Thousand Cuts

by Cara February 5, 2009

After South Dakota’s two failed abortion ban attempts, and previous decisions to enact what are quite arguably the strictest abortion restrictions in all of the United States, I was almost silly enough to hope that Leslee Unruh’s proclamation that she was dropping the abortion issue for this legislative season might mean something good.  But no, [...]

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Breaking: Obama Reverses the Global Gag Rule

by Cara January 23, 2009

It’s official. The gag rule is no more.  (At least until our next anti-choice president, if legislative action isn’t also taken.) International funding can now go to organizations that provide abortions with other funding, or simply offer counseling about abortion as an option from a different provider.  Desperately poor women with high risk pregnancies won’t [...]

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NY Times Article Got Story on DIY Abortions Wrong

by Cara January 23, 2009

The other week, I blogged about this NY Times article on Dominican women in New York City inducing abortion themselves with misoprostol. Well, it turns out that the NY Times go several key facts very wrong. AlterNet has the story. (emphasis mine) So what did the study find? Far less misoprostol use than expected, it [...]

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Blog For Choice: Sexual Rights

by Cara January 22, 2009

Today is the 36th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, and that means it’s also Blog for Choice Day.  Unlike last year (and more like myself), I have little interest in the theme, pro-choice hopes for Barack Obama and the new Congress. I’ve decided that I want to write about something else.  I want to write [...]

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What’s Causing High Teen Birth Rates?

by Cara January 15, 2009

Last year, we got the news that teen pregnancy rates have risen for the first time since 1991.  But last week, figures were also released on a state-by-state break down of the teen birth rate. Mississippi now has the nation’s highest teen birth rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, a new [...]

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SD Voters Support Prevention and Education Over Abortion Bans

by Cara January 14, 2009

We already knew that South Dakota voters oppose an abortion ban in their state, based on their decision to shoot down such a measure twice in a three year period.  But South Dakota Healthy Families decided to take the extra precaution of reminding legislators of this fact as the legislative session begins. And the data [...]

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Illegal Abortion in the Era After Roe vs. Wade

by Cara January 6, 2009

Think that illegal abortion is a thing of the past in post-Roe vs. Wade America?  Well thankfully, it is far less common.  But if you thought the practice was eradicated, you were sadly both very naive and very mistaken. The pills were misoprostol, a prescription drug that is approved by the Food and Drug Administration [...]

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