This Is Not Your Mother's Reproductive Rights Movement

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Tuesday January 04, 2011 · 8:39 AM PST

2011/01/04 · 08:39

The pro-choice movement in the United States is at a critical crossroads. A new reproductive justice movement is emerging from the hardships endured by women in this country, one that will challenge the heated, sometimes violent suppression of women's dignity and human rights.

This year, more legislation to limit women's access to abortion and to legally separate fetuses from the pregnant women who sustain them was introduced in state legislatures than ever before - over 350 bills. Less commonly known is the fact that these laws also undermine the rights and health of pregnant women who wish to continue their pregnancies. According to Amnesty International, the United States spends more than any other country on health care, yet women here have a higher risk of dying due to pregnancy-related complications than women in 40 other countries.

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Tuesday April 13, 2010 · 8:56 AM PDT

2010/04/13 · 08:56

Today, in a blatant bid to shut down late-term provider Dr. Leroy Carhart, the Nebraska Legislature overwhelmingly passed a virtual ban on all abortions beyond 20 weeks. The so-called "Pain Capable Unborn Child Act," LB 1103 does not only affect women and families from Nebraska. (Nor is it really about fetal pain, a concept that both the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologist disavow as a possibility this early in fetal development.)

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Monday April 05, 2010 · 11:51 AM PDT

2010/04/05 · 11:51

This past Thursday night Judge Warren Wilbert gave Scott Roeder the maximum sentence for murdering my mentor, Dr. George Tiller last May: life in prison with the possibility of parole after 50 years, when Roeder will be 102.

The "Hard 50," as it’s known in Kansas, is the right sentence. But Roeder spending his life in jail doesn’t stop the continuing acts of terrorism against providers and their staffs. It also doesn’t bring back one of the most compassionate, caring men I’ve ever known. I worked side by side with Dr. Tiller as his top political adviser for nearly a decade. The walls of his office were covered with thank you notes from the women and families who were grateful to him for treating them with dignity and respect at one of the most difficult times in their lives.

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