Other Reproductive Freedom News
By - New York is rejecting federal money for “abstinence-only” sex “education.” Good. (Meanwhile — perhaps in a bid to attract the bullshit-libertarian vote he’s alienated with his opposition to deposing regimes that pose no substantial threat to the United States and then engaging in quarter-assed reconstruction schemes — I see that alleged libertarian Ron Paul has come out for federal money telling teenagers not to have sex. Well, I guess the libertarian upside is that they don’t work.)
- Ann Friedman has an excellent account of the situation surrounding the Planned Parenthood clinic in Aurora. I especially like this about the structural disadvantage faced by clinics, like PP, that actually provide medical care to women: “The Aurora clinic represents the best of both worlds: The shiny façade of professionalism that you get with a crisis-pregnancy center with real medical care for women on the inside. Planned Parenthood’s decision to complete the permit paperwork using the name of a subsidiary is a major reason this was possible. But even the most well-funded reproductive-health provider in the country, using this stealth tactic, ended up wrangling with anti-choicers in court.”