State Rep. Allen Peake (R) on Thursday introduced a bill (HB89) banning abortions after 20 weeks’ gestation based on the notion that a fetus can feel pain, the Macon Telegraph reports. The bill contains an exception to allow abortion if a woman’s life or the life of another fetus is in danger (Lee, Macon Telegraph, [...]
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The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. “I Went to the March for Life, and All I Got Was This Lousy Fear for Choice,” Sarah Erdreich, Feminists For Choice: The crowd at the March for Life in Washington, D.C…
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Bishop Thomas Olmsted’s decision to revoke St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center’s Catholic status in December “is a bellwether of a profound disagreement that is playing out at many Catholic hospitals around the country,” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. The loss of the hospital’s Catholic status is related to its authorization of an [...]
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The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “Standing Up For Women’s Health 38 Years After Roe,” Jennifer Dalven, ACLU’s “Blog of Rights”: Thirty-eight years after Roe v…
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American Prospect recently interviewed Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, about the abortion-rights landscape and the challenges the group faces this year. Northrup noted that her group expects a “huge deluge of anti-choice laws” proposed in states, as 29 governors who oppose abortion rights took office this year…
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) on Saturday announced plans to give emergency designation to a bill (SB 16) that would require a woman seeking an abortion to view a sonogram, listen to the fetal heartbeat and then sign a document stating that she received the sonogram and understands the consequences of abortion, the Austin [...]
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The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. Blogs Comment on Kermit Gosnell Case: Several bloggers are reacting to murder charges filed against Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell in the deaths of one woman and seven infants. Gosnell is accused of performing abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy and employing staff members who were not trained [...]
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“[E]mboldened by major changes in the political landscape, with conservative Republicans making large gains,” dozens of state legislatures are considering legislation that would restrict access to abortion care, the New York Times reports. According to NARAL Pro-Choice America spokesperson Ted Miller, 29 governors, up from 21 last year, are considered abortion-rights opponents, the Times reports…
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The antiabortion movement has been re-energized by the new Republican majority in the House, the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and two bills in the House that would place additional restrictions on access to abortion, the Los Angeles Times reports (Oliphant, Los Angeles Times, 1/22)…
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Randall Terry, an antiabortion activist and founder of Operation Rescue, said Thursday that he will challenge President Obama in the 2012 Democratic presidential primary and run a campaign intended to spark a national debate on abortion rights by using graphic imagery and dialogue, Politico reports (Summers, Politico, 1/20). His main campaign goal is to [...]
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