By Vanessa • 16 years ago

Luck of the Irish my ass.

This is just fucked:

A 17-year-old girl who is four months pregnant and whose child cannot survive outside the womb has gone to the High Court to challenge a decision by the Health Service Executive to stop her leaving the State for an abortion.
The girl is in the care of the HSE and is challenging its decision to contact gardaí and not to let her travel for the abortion unless she presented as a suicide risk.
After hearing this news, the girl made a decision to travel to the UK for a termination but the HSE asked gardaí not to permit her to leave the jurisdiction.

So this girl will literally be held by the police (gardaí ) if ...

This is just fucked:

A 17-year-old girl who is four months pregnant and whose child cannot survive outside the womb has gone to the High Court to challenge a decision by the Health Service Executive to ...
By Jessica • 16 years ago

Saletan’s Rules for Girls

It’s a well-known fact (at least, to Slate’s William Saletan) that pregnant women who seek abortions actually have no idea what abortions are. Let alone what a fetus is.
Enter Saletan’s Rules for Girls. Cleverly disguised as an article about the increasing popularity of ultrasound bills among the anti-choice sect, Saletan’s article is more like a manifesto about why us absent-minded gals need laws (and men like him) to remind us what happens in a pregnant uterus.

Critics complain that these bills seek to “bias,” “coerce,” and “guilt-trip” women. Come on. Women aren’t too weak to face the truth. If you don’t want to look at the video, you don’t have to. But you should look at it, ...

It’s a well-known fact (at least, to Slate’s William Saletan) that pregnant women who seek abortions actually have no idea what abortions are. Let alone what a fetus is.
Enter Saletan’s Rules for Girls. Cleverly ...
By Vanessa • 16 years ago

Quick Hit: A lovely lesbian wedding.

The New York Magazine featured “The Lesbian Bride’s Handbookâ€? yesterday, which is not necessarily a handbook but more of a way-too-adoroble story of Ariel Levy’s wedding. (Reminder: Levy is the author of the oh-so-controversial Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture.) Congrats to Levy and her wifey. (And that hot-ass dress!)

The New York Magazine featured “The Lesbian Bride’s Handbookâ€? yesterday, which is not necessarily a handbook but more of a way-too-adoroble story of Ariel Levy’s wedding. (Reminder: Levy is the author of the

By Vanessa • 16 years ago

New York introduces reproductive rights bill.


Last week, Governor Eliot Spitzer introduced the Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act, a bill that would ensure New Yorkers’ right to choose.
Although New York is generally viewed as a “safe state� in regards to reproductive rights, its actual current legislation is totally outdated. Abortion is even technically criminalized under New York’s homicide statute.
Not only would the bill make sure that women will be able to make decisions about their own health and private decisions, it could serve as an model to other states. There’s not much we can do to change the SCOTUS decision, but we can at the very least we should do what we can to protect the rights we have left.


Last week, Governor Eliot Spitzer introduced the Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act, a bill that would ensure New Yorkers’ right to choose.
Although New York is generally viewed as a “safe state� in ...
By Jessica • 16 years ago

Post-party musings

I just wanted to give a big old thanks to everyone who showed up to our third year bash on Friday. I think everyone had a fantastic time. (As evidenced by the pics here, here, and here.)
And I wanted to say a special thank you to my sister, who worked her ass off to plan an amazing night; and to Gwen and Gwynn (and again, Vanessa) for the speeches that made me cry. Now if I could just lose this lingering hangover.

I just wanted to give a big old thanks to everyone who showed up to our third year bash on Friday. I think everyone had a fantastic time. (As evidenced by the pics here, ...
By Vanessa • 16 years ago

We knew this was coming.

Just a week after the Supreme Court’s abortion ban, serious threats are beginning to unfold for women’s clinics across the country.
On Wednesday, a bomb was found right outside of a women’s clinic in Austin, Texas. The good thing is that at least one culprit of the attempt was caught.
Reproductive rights organizations have been alerting abortion providers of potential acts of violence due to the decision:
“We know that when abortion is in the news, we also see clinics targeted for increased violence and disruption,” said Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation.
Like we haven’t had enough upset lately regarding choice. Sigh.

Just a week after the Supreme Court’s abortion ban, serious threats are beginning to unfold for women’s clinics across the country.
On Wednesday, a bomb was found right outside of a women’s clinic ...
By Ann • 16 years ago

Weekly Feminist Reader

NPR had a segment on the new Amnesty campaign to end violence against Native women. One of the shelters they featured, Pretty Bird Woman House, is holding a fundraising campaign. Click here to donate.
Caryl Rivers on how the news media scare women.
A man is arrested in the attempted Austin Women’s Health Center bombing.
A new bill would make sure EC is available to women on military bases, who currently have to drive off-base to get the pill.
The debate over Kabul Beauty School.
One of the men who used the services of the “D.C. Madam” is… one of Bush’s abstinence appointees. Yep, the guy that Bush hired to push abstinence-only ...

NPR had a segment on the new Amnesty campaign to end violence against Native women. One of the shelters they featured, Pretty Bird Woman House, is holding a fundraising campaign. Click here to donate.

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