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…
When I was a teenager in about 1940, I baby-sat the two children of a lovely young divorced woman named Helen. She had few employable skills, an exhausting, poorly paid job and her ex-husband only occasionally made child-support payments. Suddenly she died… The children came…
Tabloid headlines read: “Women succumb at alarming rate to post-abortion stress syndrome,” “Dramatic increase in incidents of breast cancer,” “suicide among women who have abortions.” There is not one shred of scientific evidence to back up any of these claims. The articles are authored by…
George Santayana tells us, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Since many anti-choice zealots (and indeed, unfortunately, all too many pro-choice individuals as well) labor under the mistaken impression that the controversy surrounding abortion is a unique byproduct of…
