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New report shows how the principle of “personhood” is already criminalizing pregnancy in the US

By Maya | Published: January 17, 2013
Tweet Regina McKnight was charged with homicide by child abuse after the state said her cocaine use caused her to have a stillbirth. It was later determined that the stillbirth was due to an infection, and her conviction was overturned–after she’d already served eight years in prison. Laura Pemberton wanted to have a vaginal birth after having had a [...]
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New Romney ad geared toward women is a joke

By Samhita | Published: September 18, 2012
TweetIt just gets better. This election season has been like a bloopers reel for a real election, as Romney’s “strategy” unfolds before us. Let’s put aside that in the last two days alone he said half the country is a bunch of ungrateful serfs and said that there is “no hope for Palestine,” his continued attempt [...]
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Texas court rules funds can be cut from Planned Parenthood

By Samhita | Published: August 22, 2012
TweetWhile we were Akin-izing (agonizing over Akin), the war on women’s access to basic health care was not asleep. A scary day in Texas, when an appellate court ruled yesterday that the state can strip Planned Parenthood of all funding as they find ways to “protect life” and remove all state funding from groups that provide [...]
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