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Pandagon: "Now, I realize that most of us tend to think that “human rights violation� is traditionally about violating someone’s rights—their liberty, their freedom, their autonomy—and thus the argument that taking away women’s rights is saving women’s rights doesn’t quite make sense. But we’re from the old school feminist camp that believed that women are humans, with rights similar to those traditional human rights."
The Galloping Beaver: "[T]here is a considerable difference in both practice and law between Canada and the US. While Canadian women may feel they have easier access to abortions in Canada than women in the US, the law in the US is actually much more firmly established than it is in Canada and has been so for much longer."
The Curvature: "Those of us who have been paying attention know perfectly well that Roe is under attack. And 2007 was a particularly interesting year. The Roberts-led Supreme Court upheld the “partial-birth abortion� ban that has no exception for a woman’s health, despite its direct conflict with Roe. States have been tripping over themselves to pass “trigger laws� that would outlaw abortion immediately if Roe was overturned. State legislators have also been proposing an endless amount of misogynist bills that would restrict women’s right to an abortion: all out bans, “informed consent� laws that lie to women, laws requiring forced, medically unnecessary renovations to abortion clinics, laws requiring women get permission from their fetus’ fathers before having an abortion, and laws granting legal rights to fetuses, or even to fertilized eggs."
Radical Doula: "Are women getting less abortions because they have better access to things like emergency contraception and birth control? Or are they getting fewer abortions because 83% of counties have no abortion provider, restrictions like the Hyde Amendment prevent low-income women from obtaining abortions (the report said that the average cost for a 10 week abortion was $413), and anti-choice sentiment around the country is making women feel shamed into carrying these unwanted pregnancies to term?"
Trailer Park Feminist: "I may be a member of the post-Roe generation, but that doesn't mean I'm naïve enough to want to go back to the bad old days. Prohibition doesn't work for alcohol, doesn't work for drugs, and doesn't work for abortion. Regulation does work, has worked, and should be allowed to continue working. "
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I vote pro-choice because I'm pissed off. Here's my first ever blog for choice:
http://klynn44.livejournal.com/126770.html
Please check out my post.
http://www.momstinfoilhat.com/2008/01/22/blog-for-choice-day/
http://sideoftheroadblog.blogspot.com/
My very first "blogging for choice" entry, too!
I blogged because the pre Roe v. Wade days were the kind of nightmare that makes a modern horror film look like the Teletubbies.
http://www.bobboblog.org/bobbo-29
I'm not sure why, but my comments to feministing never seem to go through. Here's a second try!
I blogged for choice at: http://www.foulpapers.com/wordpress/?p=58
"[T]here is a considerable difference in both practice and law between Canada and the US. While Canadian women may feel they have easier access to abortions in Canada than women in the US, the law in the US is actually much more firmly established than it is in Canada and has been so for much longer."
Can someone please explain this to me? As a Canadian I am curious as to how American abortion laws are "more established" than Canadian laws, when I see the exact opossite. Thanks!