abortion
"Abortion Party": What's in a name?
Damon Linker recently blogged on the New Republic about a "deeply disturbing" Alternet article by Byard Duncan, My First Abortion Party.... Read more »
Don’t Call Him an “Abortionist,” and Other Issues with Coverage of the Tiller Murder
Reducing Tiller’s work to the word “abortionist” just buys into the antichoice fanaticism that equates “abortion” with “murder.”
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Come What May: WTF, Is This Real?
I have watched this video (posted today on videogum) a few times now, and I still can’t quite figure out what’s going on:
My best guess is that a student on the mock trial team at his... Read more »
Speaking of Super Bowl Ads
The following was apparently an ad that NBC refused to show during the Super Bowl. It is a commercial featuring an ultra sound of an unborn baby–which all wraps up into an image of Obama. The basic message being: if Obama’s mother had aborted him because it was going to be “hard” to... Read more »
A matter of life and death?
The debate surrounding abortion often comes down to whether or not people think it should be legal. But what happens when we continue the discussion beyond that point? Check out this video documenting abortion protesters responding to this question:
If abortion was illegal, what should be done with... Read more »
9021OMG, Feminism?
It's sad to remember how high my hopes were for CW's 90210 last summer. I love Fox's original series, Beverly Hills 90210 (though bad dialogue and one-dimensional characters make for a rocky relationship) and I love Rob Thomas (of Veronica Mars), who was supposed to be writing this thing and... Read more »
The A-word in popular media: A plea for help
I feel sheepish asking for reader participation when my own contributions to this neglected blog have been so pathetic. I do hereby swear to post every day for the next week if you all help me out here, okay?
I'm looking for references to abortion or unplanned pregnancy on tv shows or in films over... Read more »
Full Frontal Offense: Taking Abortion Rights to the Tees
There's a new front in the battle for abortion rights—the literal front, that is, of a t-shirt designed by writer and feminist activist Jennifer Baumgardner that proclaims "I had an abortion." The shirt, initially for sale on Planned Parenthood's national website and now available on Clamor... Read more »