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This week in abortion news
TweetBad News: Alabama passed a bill which pretends to be about protecting women but is actually aimed at shutting down abortion clinics on Tuesday. The governor has said he will sign the bill, ironically called the “Women’s Health and Safety Act,” which requires that doctors preforming abortions be granted admitting privileges at local hospitals. Some of [...]
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Friday Feminist Fuck You: Alabama anti-choice protestors
TweetThese Alabama “pro-life” protestors retraumatized a mother whose baby died in utero: Pro-choice marchers recalled a particularly painful event last month when a woman whose baby had died en utero was coming to the clinic to have it removed. In an awful coincidence, that was the day, Watters said, when the pro-life demonstrators collected a children’s choir on [...]
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Alabama may finally acknowledge Jim Crow era rape of Recy Taylor
Originally posted in Community Blog
TweetAlmost 67 years ago during the Jim Crow era, Recy Taylor was raped and held at gunpoint by seven white men in Abbeville, Alabama on September 3 in 1944. Unfortunately, her rape was one of many cases where a black woman never got justice. Because the multiple men who raped her were white men from [...]
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Meet Alabama’s governor: an anti-choice, equal opportunity offender