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Halloween brings out the worst in horrible people

Halloween may be a cringe-worthy time of year, but it can also reveal people’s true colors.

The folks at the anti-choice Susan B. Anthony List, for instance, carved up this jack-o-lantern yesterday. If there’s a more terrifying Halloween nightmare than having your womb occupied against your will by a fetus with an oddly large hand, I don’t know what it is. This is the kind of sentiment you’d think the anti-choice movement would try to downplay. But I guess since they were among like-minded people at a work lunch, they felt free to let their forced birth flag fly high. [Via]

And then there’s this photo from last year’s staff Halloween party at the law firm ...

Halloween may be a cringe-worthy time of year, but it can also reveal people’s true colors.

The folks at the anti-choice Susan B. Anthony List, for instance, carved up this jack-o-lantern yesterday. If there’s ...

By Chloe Angyal • 12 years ago

An unwanted American export: invasive anti-choice tactics

Taking a dick move out of the American anti-choicer playbook, protesters at Australian abortion clinics have started filming women as they enter and leave clinic buildings. Doctors have called on police to intervene, but police can’t intervene because the protesters aren’t breaking the law.

Protesters say that the decision to videotape outside clinics isn’t about shaming women, but about protecting themselves. The Age reports:

Tanya O’Brien, of the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants group that regularly protests outside abortion clinics, admitted that members of her group were filming outside clinics but said it was for their own protection in case they were attacked or subjected to allegations of wrongdoing.

You know what, Tanya O’Brien of the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants ...

By Chloe Angyal • 12 years ago

Sex-selective abortions on the rise in India

According to new study published this week in the medical journal The Lancet, the number of sex-selective abortions being performed in India has been rising and continues to rise. The researchers estimate that between 4 million and 12 million sex-selective abortions have been performed in India in the last three decades. And in the past decade, the study found, the problem has worsened.

Despite legal restrictions making it illegal to use ultrasounds to determine the sex of a fetus, the practice has continued; it seems that these laws are rarely enforced and that private medical practices are largely unregulated. The result is that there are now 914 girls for every 1000 boys under the age of six. In 1961, the ratio ...

By Rose • 13 years ago

ella – progress and a reminder that we cannot rest until reproductive freedom comes

I couldn’t help but include this YouTube video of “Ella’s song,” in this post about the recently approved emergency contraception pill that bears the name of an unsung heroine of the civil rights movement. The refrain of the song really sums up how I feel about this contraceptive breakthrough that women have been met with this past Friday: We who believe in freedom cannot rest; We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.

By Rose • 13 years ago