Posts Tagged Guttmacher

Santorum misses the days of back-alley abortions. Don’t you?

While at the American Heartland Forum in Columbia, Missouri, an efficient Rick Santorum killed two birds with one stone, pushing the myth of death panels and longing for the golden days of illegal abortions.

“fifty years ago… sixty years ago, people who did abortions were, you know, in the shadows, were people who people who were considered really bad doctors. Now, abortion is something to that is just accepted.”

Oh, what I wouldn’t do to bring back those shadows, to push abortion back into the underbelly of crime, shame, and death! Sadly I was too young to experience that pre-Roe v. Wade time but luckily, it’s captured by a report by The Guttmacher Institute, Lessons from Before Roe: Will Past be Prologue?

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While at the American Heartland Forum in Columbia, Missouri, an efficient Rick Santorum killed two birds with one stone, pushing the myth of death panels and longing for the golden days of illegal abortions.

“fifty years ago… sixty ...

Quick Hit: Guttmacher livechat today on WaPo about IOM recommendations

Guttmacher’s senior public policy analyst Adam Sonfield is having a chat at Washington Post today at 11 AM EST on the recent recommendations made by the Institute of Medicine to cover contraception under the new health care law. Make sure to check it out.

Also, RH Reality Check is covering the news (and subsequent haters) around this awesomely.

Guttmacher’s senior public policy analyst Adam Sonfield is having a chat at Washington Post today at 11 AM EST on the recent recommendations made by the Institute of Medicine to cover contraception under ...

Quick Hit: The outcome of cutting funds for international family planning

As if the domestic attacks on reproductive freedom in the U.S. wasn’t enough, you might or might not know about bill H.R. 1, that would cut $200 million in funding for U.S. international family planning assistance. Guttmacher gives us the goods on what the end result would be from just half of the cuts from this proposal. The numbers say it all — for every $100 million cut in funding, there would be:

5,000 more maternal deaths; six million fewer women and couples receiving contraceptive services and supplies; 1.9 million more unintended pregnancies; 800,000 more abortions (of which 600,000 would be unsafe); 600,000 more years of healthy life (DALYs) lost; and 23,000 more children losing their mothers.

So double that to get an idea of ...

As if the domestic attacks on reproductive freedom in the U.S. wasn’t enough, you might or might not know about bill H.R. 1, that would cut $200 million in funding for U.S. international family planning assistance.