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Throughout these efforts, students say, labels like “pro-choice” and “pro-life” took a backseat to story-sharing—perhaps offering insight about ways that young activists, far from being apathetic or disinterested, are engaging their peers about issues of reproductive rights and justice. 
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The Satanic Temple last week filed a lawsuit against Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, alleging that the state’s abortion restrictions violate temple members’ freedom of religion.
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We get it: “Por-Lifers Love Fetuses
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The road ahead for abortion providers and their allies to not only preserve George Tiller’s specialized service, but simply to stay open, is hardly an easy one. But many of those who knew Dr. Tiller as a colleague and friend are no doubt fortified by remembering one of his favorite sayings: “Attitude is everything.”
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One bill would ban abortion providers from teaching sex education in public schools, while the other would require women seeking an abortion to receive information written by the state about the alleged mental health risks associated with the procedure.
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And guess what! It's OK to define a pregnancy as "goo," but it's also OK not to! Life is complicated!
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On Thursday, the state senate voted on final passage of a bill that would create a 25-foot buffer zone around the five clinics in the state that provide abortion services.
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Culture change is distinct from policy change and health-care access, but it’s just as important. It’s difficult to imagine long-term policy gains without doing the hard work to change norms, beliefs, and behavior.
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"Clinics like Red River need to remain open, or women's lives will be at risk."
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Doctors in South Dakota could face life in prison for performing virtually any abortion procedure under a new bill proposed by a Republican state lawmaker.
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
ARRRRG
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The movement already trusts us to provide abortion treatment, so why aren't we trusted with the defense of our own cause?
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Maybe you don't want to call it a "war on women". Maybe you find the word "war" to be over-the-top, despite the facts regarding bombings, shootings, rape, and other violent attacks against women, i...
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Check out this infographic about pro-choice and anti-choice laws across the country, and learn about choice-related laws in your state!
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Every decision has a story. And as young people, we’re faced with plenty of tough decisions. Do you have a unique story to tell? If you’re between the ages of 18 and 30, we hope you’ll consider entering the Choice Out Loud Short Story Contest. Not only is this a great way to share a pro-choice story, your submission will be reviewed by our amazing judges and you could win one of our great cash prizes! Grand Prize: $2,000 HOW TO ENTER: Write a story, 500 words or less, that features an unplanned pregnancy. Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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“Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful,” said Burgess, a former OB/GYN. “They stroke their face. If they’re a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. If they feel pleasure, why is it so hard to believe that they could feel pain?”
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
Remember, it's only important if a male fetus pleasures himself.
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Anti-choicers think what they believe determines how abortion restrictions are enforced. They're dangerously wrong.
It takes a special kind of willful ignorance to oppose legal abortion these days. In fact, being disconnected from reality has become the most definitive characteristic of the anti-choice movement. Pregnancy from rape? The body can “shut that whole thing down.” Birth control? Just another kind of abortifacient. Then there are the made-up “post-abortion syndromes” and unsubstantiated links between abortion and breast cancer. But no kind of anti-choice rhetoric is more dangerous than the fantasy that making abortion illegal will not hurt women.
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Residents of North Dakota are getting a lesson in just how expensive it is to defend an unconstitutional abortion ban. Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
All I can do is sigh now that my voice is sore from ranting about this
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by TARA CULP-RESSLER, ThinkProgress
According to the Guttmacher Institute, complications from unsafe abortions in the developing world contribute to 47,000 preventable deaths each year.
In all parts of the world, women have abortions for similar reasons, often for the very same reasons that woman who have access to modern contraception choose to use birth control. Women want to be able to delay having children if they are financially unable to care for a child or additional children, if they are not in a stable relationship with a partner who can help them care for a child, or if they still need to finish their education. But contraception isn’t readily available in many of the countries where women are dying from botched abortion procedures. Guttmacher estimates that about 222 million women in the developing world are trying to avoid pregnancy, but aren’t using a modern form of contraception, putting themselves at risk for an unintended pregnancy and an unsafe abortion.
[MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay, Deanna Dahlsad
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As I write this, it is 1:17 am on Wednesday, June 20th, 2012. I am lying awake in bed, trying to decide whether or not to have an abortion. Of course, we don’t call it an abortion. We call it “a procedure” or a D&C.
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