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The Nation.
April 19, 2018
There is strong scientific evidence that increased access to affordable contraception leads to a reduction in unintended pregnancies and healthier and more economically secure mothers and families.” And Americans remain staunchly and consistently pro-choice. In recent polling, 75 percent of votersÃâà...
Care2.com
April 19, 2018
For a few years now, I have been attending the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. Each year tens of thousands of pro-life activists fill the streets, chanting and waving signs. Rally speakers often refer to the “pro-life generation” and claim that these young people will end legal abortion. The messageÃâà...
Rewire.News
April 19, 2018
Democrat Hiral Tipirneni, a pro-choice doctor, says on her campaign site that she “fervently believe[s] our elected representatives should support policies reflecting clearly established women's reproductive health rights.” Her platform charges “progressives and conservatives” should “work together” on theÃâà...
WBUR
April 18, 2018
And even the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute found that U.S. maternal deaths from terminating pregnancy plunged before Roe v. Wade eliminated illicit abortion, thanks to medical advances. That suggests sex education and free contraception could help make rare back-alley mortality even rarer.
Slate Magazine
April 18, 2018
Her reticence on the issue was a very quiet appeal to pro-choice Republicans and independents who might have otherwise felt uncomfortable voting for her husband. It was also rather brave: In 1988, when he won the presidential election, Republican support for abortion rights was lower than it had everÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
April 18, 2018
Pro-choice group goes on attack against California GOP House members ... California is home to six of the 30 GOP House members on the hit list — the other two lawmakers are Republican senators — and EMILY's List points its donors at the pro-choice Democratic women it has endorsed to replace them.
The Providence Journal
April 17, 2018
I object to the dichotomy alleged between "pro-choice" and "pro-life" in relation to the abortion debate. We are all pro-life, but we want life to be wanted, protected and fostered. No woman should be forced to have a child she does not want or cannot care for. Would any man stand for such a law if it wasÃâà...
CNBC
April 17, 2018
In 1994, after she and her husband had left the White House, Mrs. Bush published a memoir. Though she was not known to publicly disagree with her husband's politics, she revealed in her memoir that she was pro-choice, which was in opposition to her husband's platform. "Let me say again," she wrote.
MarketWatch
March 29, 2018
One is a strong swimmer. Another hangs out with dwarves. There's one who “can show you the world.” One with flowing magical hair. Black, Native American, Pacific Islander, Asian, Middle Eastern, etc. — yes, Disney DIS, +2.27% has given us quite a diverse lineup of princesses over the years. But, in theÃâà...
Kaiser Family Foundation
March 27, 2018
“Want to lower the abortion rate and prevent maternal deaths worldwide? Support pro-choice policies. That's the takeaway from a new report from the Guttmacher Institute, which looks at abortion around the world. … We know safe, legal abortion decreases abortion-related deaths. We know widespreadÃâà...
Slate Magazine
March 19, 2018
Ives, whose internal polling shows her trailing Rauner by 7 percentage points, attacked the governor's pro-choice governing at the Chicago March for Life in January. “We can change this for once and all,” she said. “We can put the right people in power, the right people in elected office to finally endÃâà...
The Week Magazine
March 17, 2018
During the summer of 2011, I was 20 and waiting tables at a fine dining restaurant in Alpine, Texas, my hometown of 5,000 people. My free time was filled with empty activities, a good many of which revolved around taking shots of cheap Espolon and chugging six-packs of Lone Star, usually in the companyÃâà...
New York Magazine
March 16, 2018
Bruce Rauner has been heavily based on his status as a rare pro-choice Republican. Newman's odds of beating Lipinski are higher than Jeanne Ives' odds of beating Rauner, if only because the governor is outspending her on TV ads by better than a 6-1 margin. But Ives is attracting the strong support ofÃâà...
Slate Magazine
March 15, 2018
On Tuesday, Democratic primary voters in the Chicago suburbs will choose between Marie Newman, a progressive, pro-choice challenger, and Rep. Dan Lipinski, a Blue Dog, anti-abortion incumbent. It's being billed as a battle for the soul of the Democratic Party and the party's stance on reproductiveÃâà...
Heavy.com
March 15, 2018
City & State Pennsylvania asked voters from the more urban to the more rural and the voters from near the city called him pro-choice while rural voters said Lamb is pro-life but also believes in choice. The Lamb campaign clarified in a statement: “Lamb tells anyone who asks that he's a Catholic who doesn'tÃâà...
Vox
March 15, 2018
Conor Lamb unquestionably struck some culturally conservative notes — touting his military experience and his support for gun rights while downplaying immigration and racial justice topics — on the way to his victory. Under normal circumstances it would have been a safe Republican district on theÃâà...
McClatchy Washington Bureau
March 13, 2018
That drew a sharp rebuke from the head of NARAL Pro-Choice America, Ilyse Hogue, who argued the party would only hurt itself by adding members who ... of whom are women — running for office up and down the ballot on a proudly pro-choice, pro-family platform supported by the majority of Americans.
The Independent
March 12, 2018
Pro-choice campaigners are calling on 40,000 Irish people living abroad to return to home to vote in a landmark abortion referendum this summer. Ireland does not allow overseas voting and the Home to Vote campaign is calling on people to book transport back ahead of the referendum, which is expectedÃâà...
Mother Jones
March 6, 2018
The only pro-choice Republican in the Texas legislature secured her party's nomination in Tuesday night's primary, despite fierce opposition from the state's arch-conservative governor, Greg Abbott. Sarah Davis, the moderate GOP incumbent for Houston-area District 134 defeated Abbott's favoredÃâà...
MarieClaire.com
March 5, 2018
To every person who has ever said, "My vote doesn't matter," please see: Alabama and Virginia, elections, 2017. The stunning victories that occurred at the end of last year gave hope to feminists across the country, horrified at the fact that extreme conservatives have dominated the last few elections.
The Commercial Dispatch
March 2, 2018
Dr. Willie Parker speaks to a packed house during his pro-choice lecture at Old Main Academic Center on the Mississippi State University campus Thursday evening. Photo by: Deanna Robinson/Dispatch Staff. The one and only outburst from a protestor was three minutes into Dr. Willie Parker's lecture atÃâà...
The Commercial Dispatch
March 2, 2018
Dr. Willie Parker speaks to a packed house during his pro-choice lecture at Old Main Academic Center on the Mississippi State University campus Thursday evening. Photo by: Deanna Robinson/Dispatch Staff. The one and only outburst from a protestor was three minutes into Dr. Willie Parker's lecture atÃâà...
The Reflector online
March 2, 2018
Kimberly Kelly, director of the Department of Gender Studies and associate professor of Sociology, organized the Parker's event to provide a new perspective on pro-choice in the South. She notes, more than half of all pregnancies in Mississippi are unplanned, and one in three women across the U.S. willÃâà...
Mother Jones
March 2, 2018
The only pro-choice Republican in the Texas legislature is fighting for her political life—and Democrats might not be her biggest threat. That's because Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican known nationwide for his efforts to restrict immigration, abortion and transgender rights, is actively campaigning forÃâà...
Mississippi State Newsroom
March 1, 2018
I believe an objective look at the overall lineup of speakers and events at MSU would be judged fair and balanced with regard to the pro-choice, pro-life debate. “In keeping with the university's efforts to provide students with viewpoints on all sides of the compelling issues of the day, we are supporting theÃâà...
The Christian Century
February 28, 2018
Few divisions in American politics are more passionate or entrenched than the one over abortion. For decades pro-life and pro-choice advocates have squared off, trying to secure legislation and legal rulings that favor their side. Yet surveys have consistently shown that the majority of Americans are notÃâà...
Pacific Standard
February 28, 2018
How, though, as a feminist and a pro-choice supporter, can I express any of this without also being used as a poster child for the anti-choice movement? Kassi Underwood's new book, May Cause Love, tackles the murky nature of what it means to have a choice. At 19, she was struggling with alcoholismÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
February 28, 2018
Several anti-abortion groups are objecting to Mississippi State University bringing in a nationally known Christian physician who practices at the state's lone abortion clinic, saying they are not afforded the same opportunities. Dr. Willie Parker will be speaking Thursday at Mississippi State University on theÃâà...
Washington Examiner
February 28, 2018
The pro-life community has long known that the "pro-choice" moniker merely serves as a handy euphemism to hide activists' true goal: abortion on-demand, at any time, for any reason. But many politicians, judges, and everyday people likewise hide behind the label, claiming they personally opposeÃâà...
TribTalk
February 28, 2018
As a Texan, it's heartbreaking to be on the bottom of so many lists like voter participation and the quality of education. What really keeps me up at night, though, is this: Texas has the highest maternal death rate in the developed world, and black women are suffering the most. Texas also has the fifth-highestÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Ross Douthat clearly delineates the unequal premise between pro-life and pro-choice. Pro-choice advocates support the right of everyone to choose reproductive options. Pro-life advocates assert their right to choose reproductive outcomes for everyone. Which side appears more extreme than the other?
STLtoday.com
December 31, 1999
Feminists and “pro-life” people have developed reputations that encourage people to defend one belief or the other. The opinion that the two must contradict is misguided since both have more similar essential beliefs than pro-choice feminists would like to admit. Being a feminist used to be centered on theÃâà...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
The chief lesson of the report is one pro-choice advocates have known for years: that making abortion illegal or hard to get doesn't end abortion, it just makes it less safe. And opposition to abortion tends to come along with opposition to contraception and women's rights more broadly – and the limitedÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
December 31, 1999
Anti-abortion activists rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on March 20 as the justices hear arguments over California's attempt to regulate pregnancy centers. (Andrew Harnik / Associated Press). To the editor: The dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, Erwin Chemerinsky, needs lessons in logic.
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
Up to 40,000 Irish citizens living abroad are being urged to return home to cast crucial votes in a historic referendum in May that could overturn the country's ban on abortion. A campaign, Home to Vote, is calling on the Irish diaspora in the UK, Europe, north America and elsewhere to book flights and ferriesÃâà...
National Catholic Reporter
December 31, 1999
Kira Schlesinger's Pro-Choice and Christian: Reconciling Faith, Politics and Justice, published by Westminster John Knox Press in 2017, argues that many people of faith find themselves in a murky middle of the supposedly black-and-white issue of abortion. During National Catholic Sisters Week, CatholicÃâà...
The Federalist
December 31, 1999
This discord extends throughout the civil society and even into the church, where believers in Christ heatedly debate whether someone who is pro-choice can even be a Christian. When you treat a child as a punishment instead of a blessed reward (Psalm 127:3); when you advocate or excuse cutting theÃâà...
