Once again another smart person says it more eloquently than I could. Mary Alice Carr (full disclosure: she’s a friend and we used to serve together on the board of NARAL: Pro-Choice New Jersey) explains the consequences of Oklahoma’s scary new law. You can find out more about this here and here ‘Oklahoma, what have you [...]
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Oklahoma: Where it is legal for your doctor to lie to you.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged abortion, politics on May 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Help Protect Family Planning Funds in New Jersey
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged New Jersey, politics on March 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Recently, New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie announced plans to eliminate all family planning funding from New Jersey’s 2011 budget. This would be a devastating loss for families in New Jersey. In 2009, family planning agencies provided services to over 136,000 women and men. Family planning agencies do more than just provide basic reproductive health care– [...]
Court Updates
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged abortion, politics on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The last two weeks of January saw some pretty amazing news in the Courts. The most important news that abortion providers received was that Scott Roeder, the man who admitted to killing Dr. George Tiller, was convicted and will face a life sentence for the murder. This comes to a huge relief to all of us who [...]
Health Care & Religious Freedom
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged abortion, politics on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There has been a lot of talk over the past week about the health care bill passed by the House of Representatives. The bill prohibits any public funds from being used for abortion care and has the potential to limit the use of private funds as well. Obviously, we won’t know the final outcome on [...]
Sarah Palin & Abortion
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged abortion, politics on July 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
With Sarah Palin making news again, I started thinking about how her views on abortion seem so out of touch with her personal experience. A couple of months ago, Sarah Palin spoke to a group of conservative anti-choice advocates about her experience when she found out during her last pregnancy, that her son Trig had [...]