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August 22nd, 2008

11:20 am - The Bush Admin Does it Again! The Bush Admin announced their new HHS regulation yesterday, descibed in the Washington Post as "a controversial regulation designed to protect doctors, nurses and other health-care workers who object to abortion from being forced to deliver services that violate their personal beliefs...." both supporters and critics said the regulation remains broad enough to protect pharmacists, doctors, nurses and others from providing birth control pills, Plan B emergency contraception and other forms of contraception, and explicitly allows workers to withhold information about such services and refuse to refer patients elsewhere. This makes me so angry...A doctor should not be allowed to lie to their patients and pharmacists should not be able to deny a prescription against a physician's orders or be allowed to essentially steal that script so that I can't get it filled elsewhere....argh!  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/08/21/ST2008082103218.html Current Mood: angry Tags: abortion

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August 3rd, 2007

08:42 am - Ever wonder what goes through the minds of abortion protestors Or what doesn't?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk6t_tdOkwo Current Mood: aggravated Tags: abortion

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April 19th, 2007

09:09 am - Another great loss for women's rights On April 18, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the first-ever federal law banning abortion. The ban, passed by Congress and signed by President Bush in 2003, criminalizes abortions in the early second trimester of pregnancy that doctors say are safe and the best to protect women's health. Members of Congress who support the ban have made a patently false claim: that the ban only applies to a specific procedure used late in pregnancy. In fact, the ban is so vaguely worded that it applies to methods used in most second-trimester abortions. Doctors (including The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) have agreed that these abortion methods are the safest to protect women's health, but politicians — and now five Supreme Court justices — have second-guessed doctors, endangering the health of pregnant women. Consider this: this would be like the feds passing a law that dictates how a heart surgeon can perform heart surgery...how can this be? How can we let government overrule medical science? In a contest between sound medicine and one set of moral beliefs, how can that set of morals win in a country that was founded on religious freedom? ( Read more... ) Edit: I wanted to add this powerful quote from Susan Yanow of the Abortion Access Project For women who need later abortions, whether at 23 weeks or 26 weeks, the statistics about number of procedures and the distinctions between types of procedures are meaningless. Whether we are one of 500 women or one of 5,000, if we decide that for the well being of ourselves and our families that we cannot continue a pregnancy, this has to be our decision. Women of all ages, races, ethnic, economic and religious backgrounds have abortions for many different reasons; each reason is as compelling and legitimate as the next. The debate over late abortions is about women’s lives and women’s choices; our voices must not be lost in the debate over numbers and names of procedures. Current Location: ppwi Current Mood: angry Tags: abortion, supreme court

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May 28th, 2006

11:14 am - Forever Pregnant Remember my rant about women being treated like vessels for life and not human beings? http://whitetigermoon.livejournal.com/60820.html Well, check this out: Forever Pregnant Guidelines: Treat Nearly All Women as Pre-Pregnant By January W. Payne Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, May 16, 2006 New federal guidelines ask all females capable of conceiving a baby to treat themselves -- and to be treated by the health care system -- as pre-pregnant, regardless of whether they plan to get pregnant anytime soon. ( Read more... ) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/15/AR2006051500875.html Argh!!!!! Granted these are merely recommendations and would actually be healthy for all of us (not just women) to follow...but still. Pregnant forever??? No thanks! Current Location: home Current Mood: tired Tags: abortion

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April 25th, 2006

10:27 am - Fake "Clinic" Cons 17-Year-Old Girl Some of you may have seen this already. This makes me so angry! An Indiana mother recently accompanied her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend to one of Indiana's Planned Parenthood clinics, but they unwittingly walked into a so-called "crisis pregnancy center" run by an anti-abortion group, one that shared a parking lot with the real Planned Parenthood clinic and was designed expressly to lure Planned Parenthood patients and deceive them. ( Read more... ) Go to: http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/fakeclinics Current Mood: angry Tags: abortion, pp

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March 9th, 2006

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10:43 am - Are we next? Did you know Wisconsin law 940.04 is still on the books and makes abortion (performing or obtaining) a felony in our state. Unbelievably, Wisconsin's law criminalizing abortion is WORSE than South Dakota's because of its harsher penalties and implications for women! Check this out: http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/abortion_repeal Current Mood: moody Tags: abortion

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March 6th, 2006

12:56 pm A short while ago South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signed into law legislation that criminalizes abortion in that state. It is a sad, sad world that we are living in. Where the government openly supports violence (forced pregnancy) against women and girls. A trend is beginning in our country...an assault against women so radical that I am strongly re-considering expatriation. Current Mood: angry Tags: abortion

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March 3rd, 2006

08:59 am - SoDak Abortion legislation...now Missouri and Mississippi to follow Miss. House Advances Bill to Ban Abortion This issue really pisses me off. I think it is a huge step back 100 years. It seems as though this is another attempt of the Right to further marginalize women. First, they say woman's life is not as important as the life she carries, then what's next: women become vessels? Merely containers for life? Are they going to tell me I can't drink wine or caffeine (that could be harmful if I were to get pregnant)? How about driving a car? Why should girls be able to go to school...they are just future vessels, afterall. Next, they are going to ban birth control. They've already tried to place severe restrictions on bc in this state. If abortion is once again outlawed in the US or even just in single states (like it would be in WI if Roe was overturned, because of the criminal abortion statute), the result wouldn't be fewer abortions, it would be fewer safe abortions. More women will turn to unsafe methods/providers, and more women will die. If we really want to decrease the number of abortions, comprehensive education and access to contraception (including emergency contraception) need to be the focus. Women need to be empowered and enabled to make healthy decisions! Stepping down from the soap box... Current Mood: anxious Tags: abortion

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