The hidden TRAP behind "Safe, Legal and Rare"
Several days ago, as she considered a follow-up to her abortion diary Abortion Rights: It's About Women, mcjoan asked some of us for suggestions about the central issues involved for physicians or...
View ArticleTexas OK's Death Penalty for Abortion Providers
It had to happen somewhere, sooner or later, and none of us should be surprised that it has happened first in Texas. The rabidly anti-choice mob comprising the majority of the Texas Legislature passed...
View ArticleIs Abortion Dangerous? Just Buckle Your Seatbelts.
As of January 1, 2004, abortion care providers in Texas have been subjected to one of those ever more commonplace TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) law packages being crafted by state...
View ArticleWhat We've Accomplished
Like many of you, my jubilation last night was soon dulled to disappointment when it became clear that Proposition 8 was, and still is, headed for a victory.And there were other small disappointments....
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Kansas denies license to one of state's three abortion clinics. Ohio ponders...
Chart created by the Guttmacher Institute As expected, one of the three remaining clinics in Kansas that provide abortions has been denied a license under new regulations specifically designed to shut...
View ArticleVa. Governor McDonnell Expected to Issue "Emergency" TRAP Regulations Today
Using what is at best a highly unusual "emergency" process, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is expected on Friday, August 26th to issue guidelines for what is known as Targeted Regulation of Abortion...
View ArticleStop Entrapping Providers: What I Told the Kansas Department of Health and...
I am the state coordinator of Kansas NOW. Today, I testified at a hearing held by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment on the proposed TRAP regulations. Here is what I told them.Written by...
View ArticlePennsylvania Joins in Proliferation of Dangerous TRAP Laws
Another day, another set of TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) laws, this time in Pennsylvania, where a proposed law is working its way through the state House of Representatives.Written...
View ArticleVA Passes Nation's Most Restrictive, Medically-Unnecessary Regulations for...
The Virginia Board of Health today did what most women's health and rights advocates both feared and expected it to do by adopting medically unnecessary regulations on abortion providers in the...
View ArticleThe Abortion Wars: The Real People Behind the Restrictions
An unprecedented number of abortion restrictions have been introduced and eventually passed in state legislatures over the past two years, during a time when one might assume politicians’ focus would...
View ArticleTX Rep, Having Failed to Pass Anti-Choice Law, Orders Department of Health to...
Passionately anti-choice Texas House Representative Bill Zedler couldn't get the legislation he wanted approved in last year's lawmaking session--he'd like to know as much as possible about women...
View ArticleVA Attorney General Oversteps the Law In Asserting “Veto” Power in TRAP...
Board members faced with “legal advice” from the AG’s office that is clearly informed more by political objectives than legal principles should decline to follow it and take whatever action is...
View ArticleCassidy Goodson
All apologies if this has been diaried. I did a little search and it didn't seem to be. I know this story is a bit sensational and a bit tabloidish and a bit Huffpo (where I found it), but is really...
View ArticleSeparating Truth From Lies Around the Kermit Gosnell Case
Unable to muster actual compassion for Gosnell’s victims, anti-choicers got right to work seeking ways to exploit his crimes to further reduce access to safe, legal abortion, and to create more...
View ArticleDraconian Abortion Law in WI Enjoined!
So-called TRAP laws whose effects are to deny women access to legal abortion services have become legion in a variety of states. In WI, one such law requiring abortion providers to have admitting...
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New laws restrict abortion rights the same way poll tax and literacy tests...
In Louisiana, a new law has the potential to shut down every abortion provider in the state. Does that law ban abortions? No, not specifically. But it's an example of something that has become much...
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GOP abortion foes are criminalizing the doctor-patient relationship
"The doctor-patient relationship." For more than 20 years, conservative propagandists and their Republican allies have used that four-word bludgeon to beat back universal health care reform. In 1994,...
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Texas strips abortion provider's medical license over admitting privileges
For the first time since its passage of draconian curbs on the state's abortion clinics, Texas stripped the medical license of a physician for failing to obtain hospital admitting privileges. With a...
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The War on The War on Women - Good News from the Front
Each week the Daily Kos group, This Week in the War on Women, covers the most egregious attacks made on women by their elected officials, the right-wing media, Tea-Party and original-flavored...
View ArticleIntimidation is Winning; Difficult/Impossible to Replace Retiring Abortion...
Sadly, the forced birthers are winning.They're not just shutting down facilities where abortions are performed, but there are very few doctors willing to enter the specialty area. The problem is...
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Does the Equal Protection Clause apply to women?
This week, the expanded House Republican majority marked the 42nd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision by comically failing to pass a 20-week abortion ban contained in the...
View ArticlePregnancy Lying Centers
Women's reproduction rights will continually be eroded until the Rethug patriarchs on the SCOTUS removes a woman's right to physical autonomy unless pro women's rights people start showing the same...
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Introducing Targeted Regulation of Urologists and Male Patients (TRUMP) laws
In April, the Tennessee legislature offered a unique moment of clarity regarding women's access to abortion services. As the Senate debated GOP proposals to institute 48-hour waiting periods and...
View ArticleLook what Atrios unearthed: ..republicans strongly in support of Planned...
Edits by Jay Ackroyd | Thursday, August 20, 2015 Planned Parenthood is a really remarkable organization, working in the trenches to deliver health care for people with nowhere else to go.There's the...
View ArticleSCOTUS takes up HB2 case called Whole Woman's Health v. Cole, Roe v. Wade may...
This afternoon at the Supreme Court, for the first time since 2007 in Gonzales v. Carhart, they have decided to take up an abortion-related case in Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole, a court case that will...
View ArticleMemo to Justice Kennedy: Studies show pregnancy, not abortion, creates...
Within the next six months, the United States Supreme Court may well overturn its 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling which recognized a woman's right to choose an abortion. In WholeWoman's Health v. Cole, the...
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ACM: Not the Church! Not the State! Women Must Decide Their Fates! Redux ad...
"Last I checked, we don’t have a rubber shortage in America. Look, when I was in college, we had a machine in the bathroom, you put 50 cents in and voila. So, yes, anyone who wants contraceptives can...
View ArticleMeanwhile, In My Hateful, Bigoted, Forced Birther State...
While everyone woke up to the horror happening in North Carolina, my state of Indiana, also known as ALEC’s Test Lab, was trying to win the competition for Most Hateful Anti-Abortion Law.INDIANAPOLIS —...
View ArticleMainstream Medicine Should Be More Like Abortion Clinics
Until you need one, most people don’t care if there’s a convenient abortion clinic. Ridiculous regulations have closed over 100 clinics nationwide in the past 2 years. All but 7 clinics remain in Texas...
View Article"Virginia health board lifts contested rules on abortion clinics" - Thanks to...
(Reuters) - Virginia's Board of Health voted on Monday to remove contested regulations on abortion clinics that included meeting hospital-like building standards, a spokeswoman said. The 11-4 vote...
View ArticleIllinois set to expand abortion rights in contrast to its neighboring states
With New York passing the Reproductive Health Act into law, Illinoisis set to be the next state to expand abortion rights in the face of Roe v. Wade either being severely neutered or overturned...
View ArticleCrazy/Stupid Republican of the Day: Andrew Koenig- 2020 Update
In 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as in 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published its profiles of Missouri State Senator Andrew Koenig (who should still not be confused with the actor who played...
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ACM: Will what began in Texas, end in Texas? Is this the end for Roe vs Wade?
There are a few states in the US that you can always count on to pass legislation that seeks to attack guaranteed civil rights, like voting rights, rights to protest and women’s right to abortion. They...
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