You will all be relieved to know that the women of Indiana continue to obey HB 1337. But it isn’t easy. Here is an excerpt of one woman’s struggles to make sure her reproductive organs are HB 1337 compliant. To do my part as a law abiding resident of Indiana, I have also been updating […]
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How are people responding to HEA 1337? The governor’s office has received several calls this week from women describing the details of their period. “I need to get a message to the Governo
Ross Douthat tries to defend ineffective and inequitable abortion criminalization policies: Whereas we know that when abortion was legalized in America in the early 1970s, the abortion rate went up dr
Yesterday, a Maine school board decided to allow a Portland middle school to open confidential health clinic within the school. The clinic will provide basic health services (like immunizations) as well as sexual health counseling and birth control. Kids will not need their parents’ permission to obtain birth control, though they will need their parents’ […]
Bush’s new nominee to oversee family planning programs doesn’t like contraception; no surprise there. Ann notes that “pro-lifers” don’t really see anything in it for them
In response to Matt here, let’s go back and see what I actually wrote about the new WHO study: If the goal of abortion is to protect fetal life, criminalization is at best an ineffective and gro
Over at TAPPED, Kate Sheppard beat me to my own hobbyhorse: a new study published in the Lancet about the effects of abortion criminalization. The findings are, to people who know something about the subject, not surprising: A comprehensive global study of abortion has concluded that abortion rates are similar in countries where it is […]
Via Yglesias, I watched this ad, which apparently aired during the Redskins game yesterday (I wouldn’t know). There’s much that’s good about this ad; encouraging parents to talk to t
By now we all know about Bush’s politically stupid and unconscionable veto of Congress’s bill expanding S-CHIP, the health care program that would cover kids whose families are not poor en
If anything is clear about the politics of aboriton, it’s that criminalization does relatively little to protect fetal life but a great deal to endanger the health of women. Jill points us (among other examples) to Uganda, where “as many as 1200 Ugandan women die every year as a result of unsafe abortions.” See also […]
A double dose of Missouri news today. First the good: The state’s intermediate court has held that the state’s fetal homicide law, which allows criminal charges against third parties who h
I’ve been remiss in not writing about the New Jersey Supreme Court’s decision in Acuna last week, in which the court held that a doctor “has no legal duty” to tell a woman seek