Not sure how I feel about this one. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the purchase of the “morning after” pill for over-the-counter distribution. That means anyone can get it – like someone under the age of eighteen. In the past, younger teens could still get it, but it had to be with a prescription and ID (so they had to go through a little bit more than just waltzing in a store to get it.)

The morning after pill, in case you’re unfamiliar, “prevents pregnancy if taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex.” The manufacturer …read more

I became pro-choice because I am so pro-life really.
I make a distinction between wanting to kill a baby – which is no “right” I feel compelled to defend – and enforcing personal autonomy over women’s bodies and this includes ferility, having many babies and large families, medicine, battery and rape within marriage, etc.
I came to my pro-choice stance in college reading the science fiction classic, Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card. In the book, America has put a limit on the number of children families can have to preserve resources. But, they are looking for a genius child to save the …read more

No one cares about your personal beliefs Sarah.

The questions are referring to whether you would pass laws that would hold US to your beliefs.

That’s what we have a right to know.

It’s such a tight rope women walk in today’s world.

Republicans claim to want to reduce the abortion rate.

Republicans claim to think it’s wrong when women who work fulltime and “abandon their children in daycare.”

Republicans claim to hate “entitlement programs” that cost them tax money.

I have to wonder why, when facing a solution to 3 of their main concerns with universal healthcare, they are not jumping on board with glee.

If women have equal access to healthcare they can prevent conception, the most effective means of drastically lowering the abortion rate.

If women have equal access to healthcare they can more …read more

Some fascinating statistics about abortion were released by the Guttmacher Institute late last year. The Guttmacher Institute, both pro-choicer and pro-lifer agree, is the most reliable source of statistical information regarding abortion.
I found the most interesting facts to be these two:
* The abortion rate is the lowest its been since Roe v. Wade in 1973, with 1.21 million in 2005.
* About 60% of abortions are obtained by women who have one or more children.
Unlike teenagers who only sought 17% of abortions, these women fully understand the responsibility and the cost of parenthood and family-life.

Three-fourths of women cite concern for …read more