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Why can’t pop c…
Why can’t pop culture do this? Why does abortion always have to be a production? Even when shows attempt to depict it positively, it’s often very performative, with lectures about the right to choose,...
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A man who assis…
A man who assisted in autopsies in a big urban hospital, starting in the mid-1950s, describes the many deaths from botched abortions that he saw. “The deaths stopped overnight in 1973.” He never saw...
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Pregnant women …
Pregnant women who choose not to continue their pregnancy do NOT owe it to the infertile to choose adoption. They are not brood mares for those who cannot bear their own children. –Christine Cugino...
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For those of us…
For those of us who had witnessed the sexual pain and bitterness of our mothers, their out-and-out fear and hatred of sexuality, coming into a (feminist) movement, just as we were becoming more sexual,...
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We have too muc…
We have too much knowledge and too many resources to continue to have the narrative reshaped and our realities ignored before our eyes. The black community has historically supported bodily autonomy...
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Does giving up …
Does giving up a baby for adoption erase all the extra personal expenses shelled out over the course of a pregnancy? Does it magically restore any pay or chance at advancement that you might have lost?...
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When mothers ar…
When mothers are thinking about terminating a pregnancy, it is often out of love and consideration of how your family is functioning at the moment, and trying to figure out, “Can I financially afford...
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What a Woman’s Choice Means to the Supreme Court – NYmag.com
This idea — that women can always find another way to get the coverage or care they need — underpins just about every recent restriction on women’s health. What’s another 24-hour mandatory abortion...
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Michelle Denise Jackson, on black women and reproductive justice
When conservatives talk about their idea of a woman who needs access to contraception and/or abortion services, she is always poor, uneducated, promiscuous, and irresponsible. By painting this image,...
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Amanda Marcotte, on conservative men and anti-sex laws
This is why conservative men confidently endorse laws and social rules that are anti-sex, even when that makes them screamingly obvious hypocrites who feel zero desire to curtail their own sexual...
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Valerie Tarico, on being pro-abortion
I am pro-abortion like I’m pro-knee-replacement and pro-chemotherapy and pro-cataract surgery. … Abortion is part of a set of tools that help women and men to form the families of their choosing. I...
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