Vascillations and WWDD
If you have been following my recent posts, you know I am supporting the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride set to kick off on 23 July 2013 in New York City and San Francisco. I discussed this summer’s...
View ArticleIs She a Womb or a Woman?
Speaking bluntly, I believe our nation is deeply conflicted about a woman’s body, especially her reproductive organs. While this conflict can be traced to a Platonic duality of mind and body whereby a...
View ArticleGo and Tell the Grandchildren
A few days ago we were driving along the pine and oak dappled streets passing the brick and wooden houses we pass everyday on the way home. We saw ranchers, split levels, and A-frames as well as the...
View ArticleA Man Can Have a Fine Voice, but This Does not Keep Him from Making a Fine...
Dear M and S, I do not ask for understanding, but comprehension. You both have questions. Some I’ve answered, insinuated, or obscured for the normal parental reasons. I owe you, though, the story as...
View ArticleA Family Aborted
Sudden violent death creates concentric ripples which spread ever wider washing and crashing over the immediate family on to extended family, friends, and colleagues. Those ripples ebb back to the...
View ArticleThe Funeral
Open or closed? His question hung in my head, a mental metronome undulating. Open or closed? It did not serve as a mantra used to focus the mind. No, the attendant’s question precluded focus and only...
View ArticleThe Year In Review
Well, suppose it’s time for me to give the obligatory “Year in Review” report on abortion rights. I’ve always been a bit of an optimist when it comes to the future of Roe and access to abortion,...
View ArticleAnti-Abortion Discrimination in the Media: Reality, Contrived, or a Function...
Part 1 of 3 By K.J. Farrell The argument that the media discriminates against the anti-abortion movement is alarming. Those who value the first amendment want open and robust discourse on all...
View ArticleThrowing Chairs at Phil Donahue by David L Gunn, Jr.
Looking back, the felicity with which the media tracked down victims in a pre-internet world was unsettling. After my Dad’s assassination on March 10, 1993, my mom, sister, friends, and I huddled...
View ArticleAnti-Abortion Discrimination in the Media: Reality, Contrived, or a Function...
By K.J. Farrell Part 1 of this series focused on concern that the anti-abortion movement has with numbers in their claims that the media discriminates against them. Part 2 focused on news coverage and...
View ArticleChum by David L. Gunn, Jr.
Chum Appearing on a nationally syndicated daytime talk show five days after losing a parent is not a good idea. Indeed, I am sure that nine of 10 grief counselors would agree that subjecting oneself to...
View ArticleStop Judging…End the Stigma to Abortion
Over the years I have come to expect those opposed to abortion to be judgmental about women seeking one, regardless of their circumstances. Pro-choice Facebook pages, such as Abortion.com, and blogs...
View ArticleSCOTUS: Scammed by a Grandmotherly Zealot
Upon hearing the news that the Supreme Court struck down the Massachusetts law that provided a 35 foot buffer zone prohibiting anti-abortion protesters from harassing patients entering medical...
View ArticlePro-Choice: Actions Count More than Words
In a recent blog, Pat Richards wrote about the term, “pro-choice,” agreeing with others that it is out of date. After seeing that last week’s listserves, blogs, and news forums I subscribe to had...
View ArticleRepublicans and Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills: An Authenticity Check
There has been much discussion about birth control pills being made available over-the-counter (OTC), primarily by Republicans as an “answer” to the concerns about the inclusion of contraception in the...
View ArticleMore Executions to Plan in Texas
By now, any person who reads this blog is aware that the State of Texas has ruled that their very unnecessary anti-abortion law, designed to make it impossible for current abortion providers to comply,...
View ArticleAbortion in 2015: Resolve to Contact Your Elected Representatives
A US News and World Report article (12/31/14), What the Battle Over Abortion Will Look Like in 2015, should remind all of us concerned about reproductive justice that Republicans will control the...
View ArticlePregnancy and Childbearing Risk Awareness Legislation
Congress began the 2015 session proposing more anti-abortion legislation, keeping in step with legislators at the state level doing the same. Abortion rights have been chipped away so continuously,...
View ArticleLate Term Abortion and 22-Week-Old Fetus Viability
National Right to Life, Family Research Council, and other anti-abortion organizations have been enthusiastically spreading the word about a study published in the New England Medical Journal showing...
View ArticleFetal Tissue and Parts: There is More to the Story
Fetal parts are for sale. Yep, the terrible Planned Parenthood abortionists found and tapped into a profitable market for fetal parts, especially intact forms. This is the basic narrative inserted into...
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