Archive for November, 2009

National Day of Action: Local Information

MCCC activists will travel to Chicago for the Illinois Choice Action Team’s Stop Stupak Abortion Rights Rally on Wednesday, December 2. For more information, see facebook AND http://www.ilchoiceactionteam.org/ If you would like to join the MCCC group, contact us at choice@mcccprochoice.org Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with [...]

November 30, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

GOP candidates favor jail time for abortion

Big news out of Alabama today. All seven GOP gubernatorial candidates in the Yellowhammer State are in favor of banning abortion – no huge surprise there. But five of the seven add that doctors who perform abortions should do prison time. What’s more, in a breathtaking display of disregard for women’s rights, candidate Bill Johnson [...]

November 30, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Being a Woman is Not a Pre-Existing Condition

An excellent reminder and thorough examination of how women’s voices are being shut out of health reform. http://www.awomanisnotapreexistingcondition.com/ Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

November 30, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

National Day of Action: December 2

From the Center for Reproductive Rights: NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION: HEALTHCARE REFORM DECEMBER 2, 2009 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Washington, DC Please join us to lobby the Senate to protect insurance coverage for abortion services — coverage that millions of women have today. You’ll be joining thousands of others to speak with one voice [...]

November 29, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

CDC Releases Annual “Abortion Surveillance” Report

Annie Newman, Managing Editor of RHRealityCheck.org, checks in with some hard numbers and hard facts on the CDC report. The CDC report not only covers how many abortions are performed in the U.S.A., but also information on when in the gestational period abortion is accessed and information on who gets these abortions, broken down by [...]

November 26, 2009   Posted in: Information  Comments Closed

Spanish Abortion Bill Clears Parliamentary Hurdle

As part of a broad national strategy on sexual and reproductive health which aims to prevent unwanted pregnancies in traditionally Roman Catholic Spain, the new government’s bill relaxing restrictions on abortion won enough backing Thursday to defeat amendments that would have totally blocked the proposed law. The Spanish government, with smaller-party allies, voted down the [...]

November 26, 2009   Posted in: World News  Comments Closed

Health Care and Abortion: Democratic Party Lines

The health care overhaul which passed the House on Sunday should have been cause for celebration. Unfortunately, it included the Stupak amendment, which bans any government funding of abortion except in cases of rape, incest, or where the mother’s life is threatened. The Stupak amendment passed on Saturday by a vote of 240-194. Sixty-four Democrats [...]

November 9, 2009   Posted in: Information  Comments Closed