ZawnVillines's Profile
Writer, mother, intersectional feminist. Blogs sponsored by Abortion Clinics Online.
Occupation: Writer
Groups: Pro Choice, Abortion, This Week in the War on Women
Diaries published: 159 (4 days since last diary on Thu May 07, 2020 at 08:54 AM PDT)
Comments posted: 435 (4 days since last comment on Thu May 07, 2020 at 10:17 AM PDT)
Diary frequency: frequent
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 8
Total Comment Ratings: 0
Most Recommended Diary: Authoritarianism Thrives on Demoralization: How to Fight Trump and Stay Psychologically Healthy, 252 comments, 444 recommends
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For weeks, the sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden have littered my social media feeds. Every activist group I’m in has been torn apart over these allegations. I’ve grown increasingly despondent as I listen to Democrats trot out the same rape...
by ZawnVillines
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on Thu May 07, 2020 at 08:54 AM PDT
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At least six states have used the COVID-19 crisis as an opportunity to ban or severely limit abortion. Declining economic well-being. A pregnancy cannot be delayed, and restrictive state-level bans already limit abortion access after the first...
by ZawnVillines
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on Thu Apr 30, 2020 at 08:52 AM PDT
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Telemedicine abortion for early pregnancy is safe and technically feasible. Yet states across the nation have moved to ban remote abortion services. Many of the same states that ban telemedicine abortion have also capitalized on the COVID-19 crisis to...
by ZawnVillines
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on Thu Apr 16, 2020 at 09:04 AM PDT
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Texas in March seized on the COVID-19 crisis to ban abortion, with no exceptions for rape, incest, or fatal fetal defects. On Tuesday, an appeals court upheld the ban, stripping Texas women of a Constitutional right they have had for nearly 50 years....
by ZawnVillines
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on Thu Apr 09, 2020 at 06:51 AM PDT
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The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world. Even under the best of circumstances, giving birth here is terrifying. The novel coronavirus pandemic has left medical professionals overworked, which means they have...
by ZawnVillines
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on Thu Apr 02, 2020 at 09:20 AM PDT
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Texas this week seized the opportunity to ban abortions and blame it on COVID-19. The state banned “any type of abortion that is not medically necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother,” with no exceptions for severely ill fetuses, babies...
by ZawnVillines
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on Thu Mar 26, 2020 at 07:43 AM PDT
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- Trump and the continuing Republican war on the use of aborted fetal tissue to research and cure diseases is coming home to roost. Researchers have been recently seeking an exemption from this draconian rule in order to aid their research into the...3 comments 10 Recs
- Watching the debate it occurred to me that perhaps only a few times in history: Tyson-Spinks, The 1990 Super Bowl (Broncos-49ers) everytime NTSA tried to crash test a Pinto, that there has been so thorough a beating on video. It is almost like...386 comments 649 Recs
- In today’s New York Times, late abortion specialist Dr. Warren Hern of Boulder, Colorado, has a chilling analysis of the risks of childbirth vs. abortion, a woman’s only options if she is pregnant. Absent Mother Nature taking control and creating a...16 comments 26 Recs
- One thing that it seems everyone can agree on is that politics have become extremely polarized. It seems we are always talking past each other and not even listening to views different than our own. The conventional wisdom is that both sides have...10 comments 2 Recs
- Hoo Boy, we had a bad week last week didn’t we? Former judge Kennedy spent the week handing Trump basically everything he wanted, and then closed it out by giving him another SCOTUS seat to fill. ...53 comments 94 Recs
- The de-evolution of the GOP into the Cult of Trump is more frightening by the day. In my younger years, the Reagan conservatives touted democracy—usually when they were contrasting us to their number one enemy: Russia. How times have changed. ...299 comments 415 Recs
- A healthy baby girl was delivered today at Jackson Women's Health Organization, the only abortion clinic in Mississippi. The young woman came to the clinic for a screening exam and delivered in the clinic with the assist of the doctor and staff. She...15 comments 57 Recs
- Rant warning. Nobody really cares what you have done or might do in an abortion situation. If you’re a politician, all we care about is whether or not you will uphold Roe v. Wade as the law of the land and refuse to support efforts to curtail...467 comments 139 Recs
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