I’m so angry about the war on women. The debates consume my thoughts and nothing seems more important than talking and thinking about women, and the reality we live in. I feel the need to share with other women how I’m feeling because I know we all feel attacked. This is so much more than [...]
Tag Archives: reproductive rights
Blog for Choice: The 2 Battles of Choice
It’s been a crazy ride for the Pro-Choice movement over the last few months. There have really been two different battles going parallel to each other when it all really comes down to the same question: Can we trust women to make the right choice for their own bodies? While we’re at it, can we [...]
Intimate Wars: The First – And Next – Time I Stood Up For Abortion Rights
The first time I stood up for abortion rights was back in 1994 in the middle of a freezing cold North Dakota winter. As I stood in the sub-freezing wind outside that clinic, being screamed at by a hysterical mob of religious zealots, I was terrified. I had never even been out of town without [...]
Intimate Wars Blog Series: My Abortion Story
It’s been over 40 years since I founded Choices Women’s Medical Center, one of the first and currently the largest and most comprehensive women’s health care centers in the country. Two years before the Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade, I opened the doors of Choices to provide women with services they desperately needed. [...]
The Handmaid’s Tale: A Feminist’s Must Read
Women have only certain roles: wife, breeder, or servant. These are the options, and the choice is not up to you to make. The government will make the choice for you. Last weekend I finally finished The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. I didn’t have a good understanding of what I was getting into and [...]
This week’s Taste of Feminism
Reading Materials Robert Massie has written another fascinating book, Catherine the Great. I bought it two days ago, and since then, I haven’t put it down. The story is about Sophia Augusta Fredrika von Anhalt Zerbst, a relatively unknown princess of minor German nobility, who traveled to Moscow to marry her second cousin, Peter, and [...]
Over 7 Billion People: The Personhood Amendment in Mississppi
The world population recently hit 7 billion. Funny story: when I was in Swaziland, King Mswati III gave a speech at the UN Population Fund Ceremony and lauded on how great it was that we were developing at such a phenomenal speed, and how he couldn’t wait until we reached 10 billion to celebrate again. [...]
Virginia Fights Back Against TRAP Laws
The War on Women has been fought over the past year or more in most of the country. With Virginia’s off year elections comes the opportunity for the state to come out in front on issues. So it should not have been a surprise when Gov. Bob McDonnell and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli began rolling [...]
Why it Won’t Matter When the Supreme Court Revokes Roe v. Wade
Although law school has been keeping me busy, I took a break yesterday to volunteer at NARAL Pro-Choice California’s annual luncheon. This was my first pro-choice event since my move to California, and it reminded me why keeping in touch with the movement is so important. One of the speakers, Slate Senior Editor Dahlia Lithwick, [...]
Birth Control Recall
In case you didn’t know: today is World Contraception Day! In case you missed it, and it wouldn’t have been that hard to, there was a recall of several birth control pills recently. Every woman I shared this with was not just shocked they didn’t know – but panicked that their pill was included. The [...]