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AZ Abortion Law to Take Effect After Judge's Ruling Mon, Jul 30 2012, Reuters Arizona's law banning abortions after 20 weeks will g...

The Great Macy's Fourth of July Abortion Sale: Get 'em while you can! (offer valid only in Mississippi until 7/11/2012)

This is actually a breadline, not a bank run or a premodern Black Friday. But when I thought about it, the breadline matched the vibe of the...

Some days I can't bear to look

I know I haven't been around much. Frankly, keeping up with the insane and nonstop political assaults on abortion and related care has ...

Guest post: TRANSVAGINAL ULTRASOUNDS! Or How We Missed the Real Story in Virginia

If you work in any field related to abortion, you probably remember that our so-called "win" in the battle over Virginia's ul...

Crushed

You guys, it passed . I really don't know what to say, do, feel. Much less what my colleagues in Georgia are feeling. Please give me a ...

Tuesday night homework: please help Georgia!

Can't you see my crazy eyes? Don't make me a law!  Friends, readers, countrypersons: lend me your eyeballs! I have an important pie...

Limiting Abortion Care One Uninformed Law at a Time

I was looking through the news today for inspiration on my post, and I saw articles about states that are currently passing new limits on ab...

Sunday Douchebaggery Interlude

Take a gander at this shit : "The billboard depicts an Alamogordo businessman, [Greg] Fultz, 35, holding what appears to the outline o...

Sweet Tooth Sez Who?

Check out this REALITY-BASED pie chart of services offered by Planned Parenthood. Nom Nom (we're still hungry)

Conscience Clause

So I finished the book that I reviewed/ranted about a couple weeks ago. Learned a lot and I highly recommend. Makes you very angry about th...

Injuring and insulting women: legislative edition (Or, "Hereafter Known As The No-Good-Reason Act")

You need to know about this. Chris Smith, along with several other congressmen (many of them newly elected), feel that our representatives...

"Schooling Chris Smith" on abortion's role in the UN's Millennium Development Goals

Good evening! Just wanted to let you know that Kelly, the brilliant and gracious creator of Schooling Chris Smith , is hosting a cross-post...

Media Monday! "Abortion Democracy," the documentary

A few weeks ago I met a German woman named Sarah Diehl, who's in the US doing a screening tour for her documentary, " Abortion Dem...

Legislators think they are our daddies (and good daddies make things harder on their children)

Happy Fathers' Day! I was going to write you a post about dads, but it'll have to be tomorrow, because I got distracted by an entire...

Restricting Abortion

I am so tired of the many abortion restrictions happening throughout the country right now. New ultrasound laws, parental notification/cons...

case report

On my ob/gyn rotation, a 30 year old woman presented to our clinic with diffuse abdominal pain for 6 weeks. She noticed increase girth in h...

Abortion Abroad: Part 2

I visited a semi-rural reproductive health clinic in Kenya. Impressive! My org has done a great job recruiting talented clinic staff and o...

Does A Parent Have a Right to Know?

I know this has been talked about on this blog before and probably done better, but please humor me. Those of us that work in the abortion f...

Health Scare

So. About that health reform. Can I admit that I stopped following it months ago? Can I admit that, more than frustrating, I find the debat...