Dr. Tiller’s Murder is an Act of Terrorism

As  Gloria Feldt, former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation, asks us to do, I am proclaiming the murder of Dr. Tiller — a doctor who worked tirelessly to continue providing women reproductive choices despite numerous attempts on his life and work — a despicable act of domestic terrorism.  And as Bonnie Erbe explains, anti-choice [...]

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Birth Control Protection Act

Well, this was music to my ears.  Planned Parenthood says…
February 18, 2009: Senator Betty Boyd introduced the Birth Control Protection Act (BCPA) into
the Colorado General Assembly. This proactive piece of legislation came in response to Amendment 48 and other attempts made by anti-choice extremists to lump common methods of contraception into the definition of abortion. [...]

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Blog for Choice Day, 2009

Today is the 36th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision supporting women’s right to choose. This year’s theme is “What is your top pro-choice hope for President Obama and/or the new Congress?”
My biggest hope is that Obama & Friends move quickly to restore choice around the world by removing the global gag rule [...]

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Update

On this.
My aunt died today, two months after entering hospice care, and three months after stopping the chemo treatments for ovarian cancer that wouldn’t and couldn’t stop the disease from spreading.  
Take care of yourselves.

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Ovarian Cancer: A Not-So-Silent Killer

My aunt, who just turned 72 a couple weeks ago, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer about eight weeks ago.  Because I’m a lazy grad student who hasn’t had paid work since mid-May, and because I live about five miles away from my aunt, and because her husband has the early stages of Alzheimer’s, I have [...]

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