FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:CATHERINE LEDERER-PLASKETT Tuesday, January 22, 2008 914-946-5363 WCLA – CHOICE MATTERS ENDORSES SENATOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT WCLA – Choice Matters is proud to endorse Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for President today, January 22, 2008, the 35th anniversary of Roe v.…
Roe Vs. Wade was, as I'm sure all readers of this blog know, the landmark decision by the supreme court legalizing abortion in the United States. this decision brought to the forefront years of work by women who valued their bodies, their privacy, and their…
The rate of abortion has fallen to its lowest rate since 1974, according to this report, released yesterday. However, also according to that report, 1 in 5 pregnancies still ends in abortion, meaning we need to do something to lower the rate of unintended pregnancies.…
This is just unreal. A Missouri proposal targeted for the November 2008 ballot would make it an act of “medical negligence†to perform or refer someone for an abortion without first determining it is warranted to prevent death, serious injury or other health risks from…
Law student, Kristi Burton, is trying to get the state of Colorado's Constitution to recognize fertilized eggs as people. Similar efforts are being attempted in Georgia, Michigan, Mississippi and Oregon. Not only is this yet another incremental attack on abortion rights, but it would…
A clinic in Kansas is being accused of 107 different charges ranging from providing unlawful late term abortions to illegal trafficking of fetal tissue. A jury was convened today to investigate. Clinics have it bad enough without having to defend themselves against baseless charges that…
Excerpt from The Worst of Times, Chapter “Coroner Fred,†by Patricia G. Miller, HarperCollins Books, 1993. In the coroner’s office, “the dead women we saw had either bled to death or they had died from overwhelming infections. Some had tears along the vaginal tract where…
From an article by Stephanie Brown, In These Times, July 19-August 1, 1989. “Just take off your panties an’ lie down, darlin’,†“Mrs. Jones,†my “obstetrician,†told me. I did it. She went into the other room and came back with a long, red tube.…
By Concetta Erica Agro "Eighty percent (80%) of the abstinence- only curricula…contain false, misleading or distorted information about reproductive health." "... Eleven of the thirteen curricula most commonly used by (federal) programs contain major errors and distortions of public health information." Those were some of…
This letter is for my friend Gina. Gina, I am sure, would have written a letter for herself but she died in 1969. We were both freshman in college, 18 years old, full of adventure, and thought we knew everything. Gina died of septic shock…
