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Map of the Day: Fewer waiting periods for guns than for abortions
TweetIn many states, it takes longer to get a abortion than to get a gun. Via the Huffington Post: It’s worth noting that, too, that waiting periods don’t actually change people’s minds about getting an abortion, but do cause unwarranted financial and emotional stress. Waiting periods for guns, on the other hand, have been linked to [...]
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Weekly Feminist Reader
Tweet “Farah Goes Bang.” Dare to hope again: on incarceration and parenting. Paternity leave isn’t just about fathers. Reclaiming indigenous papahood. Blast from the very recent past: the Great Dad. Listen to a panel on labor and feminism moderated by Sarah Jaffe. RAINN praised the recent SCOTUS decision on DNA collection, but how will it [...]
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Quick Hit: What happens to women who are denied abortions?
TweetThey’re three times more likely than those who got an abortion to be below the poverty level two years later, for one thing. The New York Times Magazine takes an in-depth look at a first-of-its-kind study–which we’ve mentioned before–that’s trying to determine how women who are forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term after being turned away from [...]
Also tagged hyde amendment, Poverty, pro-choice, Reproductive Justice, Reproductive Rights 1 Comment
We already lost Savita in Ireland. Don’t let Beatriz die in El Salvador.
TweetEd. note: This is a guest post by Juliana Britto Schwartz. By day, Juliana is a student at University of California, Santa Cruz. By night, she is a Latina feminist blogger at Julianabritto.com, where she writes about reproductive health justice, immigration, and feminist movements in Latin America. You all remember Savita Halappanavar, right? Well, the world is looking at another Savita [...]
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House passes 20-week abortion ban