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matthewkeys:

The case that’s united (and divided) abortion activists: Doctor Kermit Gosnell is charged with killing four babies by slicing their spinal cords during late-term abortion procedures in violation of Pennsylvania’s 24-week limit. The case has drawn criticism from both pro- and anti-abortion activists, with each side blaming the other. Pro-life activists say Gosnell’s actions are barbaric, while pro-choice advocates say Gosnell’s “House of Horrors” is the result of legitimate abortion clinics being driven out of the state. [More at Business Insider]

The case that’s united (and divided) abortion activists: Doctor Kermit Gosnell is charged with killing four babies by slicing their spinal cords during late-term abortion procedures in violation of Pennsylvania’s 24-week limit. The case has drawn criticism from both pro- and anti-abortion activists, with each side blaming the other. Pro-life activists say Gosnell’s actions are barbaric, while pro-choice advocates say Gosnell’s “House of Horrors” is the result of legitimate abortion clinics being driven out of the state. [More at Business Insider]

Tagged: Women's Rights / Women's Issues / Pro-Choice / Abortion / Women / Women's Health / Gosnell /

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cheatsheet:

Tammi Kromenaker (left) is the director of the last abortion provider in North Dakota, where they’ve just passed crazy restrictions. She’s not backing down.

[Dave Kolpack/AP]

Hero.

Tagged: Women / Pro-Choice / Women's Issues / Women's Health /

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BREAKING: North Dakota becomes first state to ban all abortions

The War on Women is still going strong. Heartbreaking news, because legally banning all abortions, doesn’t mean that they won’t happen, it just means that women will either have to drive to another state to have the procedure done or they will find alternative, dangerous, and lethal alternatives.

Let me guess, the North Dakota legislature is run by WASP men?

(Source: think-progress)

Tagged: North Dakota / Planned Parenthood / News / Women / Women's Issues / Women's rights / Women's health /

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jessicavalenti:

Dianna Agron speaking at a NARAL Pro-Choice America event [x]

I was fortunate enough to have a chance to chat with Dianna Agron at this event - she was lovely and clearly very committed to reproductive justice and health.

I am for any young actress that is willing to stand with NARAL and explain its importance as an organization to young women and girls.

(Source: sansastone)

Tagged: NARAL / Women's Issues / Women's Rights / Women's Health / Women /

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“No human intellect accepts the view that an infant has a rational soul from the moment of conception.”

St. Anselm of Canterbury, (1033-1109)

h/t AZSpot / Libby Anne

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Tagged: reproductive rights / women / women's issues / women's health /

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“From Griswold, to Roe, to Casey, our courts have recognized that these personal decisions — the ability to take ownership of your own reproductive destiny — are inherent in the liberty and equality our Constitution protects. As we approach the next major reproductive rights case to reach the Supreme Court, the question now is whether those rights will be made subject to the religious beliefs of others.”

From On the 40th Anniversary of Roe v Wade, Why Talk About Birth Control?

Tagged: Roe v Wade / SCOTUS / Birth Control / Women's Rights / Women's Health / Women / Feminism / Women's Economic Freedom / Women's Issues / Planned Parenthood / News / Government / Affordable Care Act / ACA / Obamacare / Obamacares /

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“No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”

Margaret Sanger

Tagged: Quotes / Margaret Sanger / Feminism / Women / Women's Rights / Women's Issues / Women's Health / Reproductive Freedom / Pro-Choice /

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(Source: sktagg23, via clydesbetterhalf)

Tagged: Women / Women's Issues / Women's Rights / Women's Health /

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Planned Parenthood Gets Texas Clinic Funding Ban Halted

Planned Parenthood won a state court ruling blocking Texas from cutting off public funds to its clinics that don’t provide abortion services the day after a federal appeals court refused to hear a related dispute.

Judge Amy Clark Meachum in Austin issued a temporary restraining order hours after the organization sued the state yesterday to void a Texas law that cuts off public funding for affiliates of abortion providers. A copy of the order was provided by Planned Parenthood. It couldn’t immediately be independently confirmed in court records.

Planned Parenthood contends Texas violated state law by enacting a regulation that bars the group’s clinics which don’t provide abortion services from participating in the state’s health program for poor women because they are associated with a larger abortion-rights organization.

Tagged: Planned Parenthood / Texas / Texas Ban / WHP / Woomen's Health Program / Women / Women's Rights / Women's Health / Women's Issues /

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Court lets Texas pull Planned Parenthood funds

As a result of Thursday’s decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Gov. Rick Perry (R) said that state officials will “immediately” begin defunding clinics operated by Planned Parenthood, which does not actually perform any abortions in the state.