Senator Lyn Allison, my current Australian hero, got a lot of attention worldwide this week when she stood up in the Senate and said: “An estimated 1 in 3 women have had an abortion, and I am one of them”… Read More ›
reproductive justice
The right to an informed choice, free of all and any coercion, in the personal decision of whether a woman will or will not proceed with pregnancy and childbirth.
Anonymous cowards for forced childbirth
They want to force women to bear children against their will, and they won’t even stand up and say who they are. AUSTRALIANS AGAINST RU486 As you might expect, their rhetoric is full of misinformation regarding the risks of medical… Read More ›
Relinquishment, Remorse and failed Redemption
I wish to recommend to you a deeply moving journal of a relinquishing mother as she writes of her experiences and emotions through the years following the adoption of her first-born. Her eloquent pain is so profound that I hesitate… Read More ›
Blog for Choice
Yesterday was the 33rd anniversary of the court decision that made abortion legal for women in the USA – Roe v. Wade. With the coalition of the religious right with the fiscal conservatives of the Republican party having reached a… Read More ›
We knew it was bad for you, see!?!
A sample of the headlines: Abortion increases stress: study Abortion increases mental health risk: study Abortion raises depression risk, say NZ researchers Abortion study backs pro-life debate Don’t you just love the way the MSM so baldly states its beat-up… Read More ›
Pay no attention to that blatant outrage behind the curtain
Look at this quibbling spin over here instead! Pay no attention to the fact that obstetric services in rural Oz are woefully inadequate, let’s quibble over how dangerous it would be for rural women to have easy access to RU486… Read More ›
Let me guess…
…if Howard loses out on this bill (a joint Greens/Democrats initiative to lift the ideologically-imposed ban on RU486), it somehow magically won’t be as important a story in Bushco’s media as how Howard won on sending troops to Iraq.
Hoyden About Town 