Tag: abortion

Editorial hits the mark on “choose life” plates

December 12, 2012 at 8:02 amCategory:Uncategorized

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An editorial in this morning’s Fayetteville Observer does an excellent job of getting to the heart of the folly in the legislature’s ridiculous decision to approve the minting of “choose life” license plates.

“The original sin here, dating back many years, is the legislature’s decision to turn vehicle identification tags into billboards for all sorts of cockamamie stuff. Had license plates remained simple regulatory aids, none of this would be happening.

Still, if pro-lifers want those plates, there’s a quick and easy way to get them. Their allies in the General Assembly can rewrite the statute, and include comparable and equal provisions for those who hold different points of view on the subject.”

Read the entire editorial by clicking here.

Once and for all: Rape causes pregnancy

October 24, 2012 at 4:35 pmCategory:Uncategorized

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The following is an abstract of a study that appeared in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology more than 15 years ago. Would that it or some similar study was required reading for all American politicans.

Abstract
OBJECTIVE: We attempted to determine the national rape-related pregnancy rate and provide descriptive characteristics of pregnancies that result from rape. STUDY DESIGN: A national probability sample of 4008 adult American women took part in a 3-year longitudinal survey that assessed the prevalence and incidence of rape and related physical and mental health outcomes. RESULTS: The national rape-related pregnancy rate is 5.0% per rape among victims of reproductive age (aged 12 to 45);

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Gaston County government turns health office over to propaganda group

October 9, 2012 at 11:52 amCategory:Uncategorized

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The Gaston Gazette reported last Friday that Gaston County officials have given the “green light for an anti-abortion group to begin holding office hours in the Gaston County Health Department.”

The group is called “The Crisis Pregnancy Center of Gaston County”  and here is how the group’s website describes it:

“Our pregnancy center is a nonprofit pro-life organization of committed Christians sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ and actively helping women, men and families in crisis pregnancy situations.”

Got it? Gaston County public dollars are going to help underwrite an explicitly religious propaganda shop masquerading as a group that knows something (and has something useful to say about) health. This is, in a word, outrageous. 

And in case, you had any doubt about so-called “crisis pregnancy centers,” what they do and how they attempt to confuse women into thinking that they are actually concerned about health, check out this powerful 2011 study by NARAL Pro-Choice NC which found that most centers employ no actual health professionals and typically fail to disclose to “patients” that they are NOT medical facilities.

Amazing new stats on birth control and abortion

October 5, 2012 at 8:29 amCategory:Uncategorized

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Two powerful new studies are in the headlines this morning that ought to spur a renewed societal commitment to promoting affordable, easy-to-access birth control for every woman who wants it.

#1 – Associated Press reports that:

“Free birth control led to dramatically lower rates of abortions and teen births, a large study concluded Thursday, offering strong evidence for how a bitterly contested Obama administration policy could benefit women’s health.

The project tracked more than 9,000 women in St. Louis, many of them poor or uninsured. They were given their choice Read More…

Even Limbaugh calls congressman’s claims about rape victims “absurd”

August 22, 2012 at 8:23 amCategory:Uncategorized

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Alyssa Rosenberg at Think Progress had an interesting post yesterday afternoon in which she reported that even Rush Limbaugh has been slamming Congressman Todd Akin’s Henry Aldridge-like claims about rape victims. This is from Limbaugh’s show yesterday:

“He’s not the first guy to say this. I’ve had people tell me that a woman’s body shuts down in rape. There’s no evidence for this. I mean it’s absolutely absurd. This leads to the second problem. This is absurd. That belief that a woman’s body shuts down and the whole notion of “legitimate” “illegitimate” rape, that’s the thing that bothers me about it. That’s just absurd. It’s not intelligent.”

Interestingly and sadly, not everyone on the far right appears to have gotten the memo about dumping on Akin. Rosenberg reports that Mike Huckabee is still defending Akin and that he provided Akin with an opportunity on his show to explain that what he really meant by referring to “legitimate” rape was that women make all sorts of false claims about rape.

Good lord. No wonder even people like Richard Burr are trying to send this dude packing ASAP.