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News broke Tuesday afternoon that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, the omnipresent charity battling breast cancer, is pulling hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of grants it had awarded Planned Parenthood to fund cancer screenings. The official reason? A new rule forbids the organization from funding any group currently under investigation in Congress. (Planned Parenthood is being investigated by legislators who oppose abortion rights and want to make doubly sure federal funds aren't being used for abortions). But many assume Komen caved to anti-abortion activists, and possibly to anti-choice higher-ups within the foundation.
At best, this decision is spineless. At worst, it's cruel. Rescinding the Planned Parenthood funding implies that the only women who deserve to receive breast cancer screenings are those who can afford a private doctor. ...
If you're pissed off, show it with your dollars — even if you can only part with a few of them. And afterwards, be sure to tell the Komen Foundation where your money went.
Ladies, unless you are menorrhagic (bleeding more than 120 milliliters each cycle) your period is not doing you wrong. If you have iron-deficiency anemia and your doctor is insisting it's because you slough off your endometrium from time to time without doing a single test to confirm it, you may want to insist on an endoscopy. It could save your life.
Republicans are trying to eliminate 50 years of improvements in women's health care, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Wednesday in a "strongly worded speech" at a NARAL Pro-Choice America luncheon in Chicago...
Over 60,000 of you signed our petition to support no-cost birth control, and now the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced it is adopting expert recommendations to require health insurers to cover contraception, along with a number of other preventive health services for women, without charging women co-payments. We got you covered — birth control without a co-pay will soon be a reality!
This decision is a milestone in the effort to improve the health and lives of women and their families and underscores the real and tangible impact the new health care law will have on women’s lives. At the same time, HHS is unfortunately considering a proposal to exempt some religious employers from providing contraceptive services, and we will work to ensure that all women are guaranteed this vital coverage.
The Institute of Medicine has named eight preventive services that women should get for free under the new health care law. Exactly how much money are we talking about? GOOD took stock of the money spent by a “typical” American woman whose sexual health and life choices correlated with the national averages. ...
In Australia, the human papillomavirus vaccine to prevent forms of HPV that can lead to cervical cancer has helped reduce the number of teenage girls developing cervical abnormalities by as much as 50%, according to a study ...
Last Friday, another anti-abortion extremist attempted to murder abortion providers in the name of God.
...when asked if he planned to shoot just the doctor or nurses as well, Lang replied he wished he “could line them up all in a row, get a machine gun, and mow them all down.” ...
As the cases of Lang and Roeder demonstrate, the rise of anti-abortion terrorism threatens the health and safety of all Americans, not just women. Across the country, abortion providers fear for their lives, and as a result, fewer doctors and nurses are learning how to perform abortions. ...
This year, Republicans in South Carolina, Nebraska, and Iowa have pushed legislation that would essentially legalize the murder of abortion providers. If passed, these bills would protect vigilantes and constitute the first instances of state-sanctioned anti-abortion terrorism.
Republicans in the U.S. Congress have passed an amendment that would prevent medical students and residents from learning how to safely perform basic medical procedures used to perform abortions, address miscarriages, or treat women suffering from other gynecological problems...
We need our doctors to be trained to perform the full range of medical procedures. They need to know how to remove the contents of a woman's uterus just as much as they need to know how to remove a bullet from a gunshot victim or a tumor from someone's brain.
[Foxx Amendment, H.R. 1216]
State Republicans have introduced nearly 1,000 laws restricting women's reproductive health access. Here are 10 of the worst states to be a woman between puberty and menopause.
[HR3 passed the House yesterday.]
...They've...held rallies protesting contraception, fought against the HPV vaccine with fallacious claims that threatening young women with cervical cancer is an effective strategy to keep them virgins... openly promoted the argument that you need to kill women off in order to scare other women into virginity. ...They're operating under the assumption that women who have sex forsake their right to live. ...
HR3 had bundled in it...[an] amendment that allows anti-choice hospitals to refuse to save a pregnant woman's life if doing so would kill the fetus.
...I struggle to imagine that...ordinary Republican voters really believe...that contraception is a menace to society and that pregnant women who can't go to term might as well die ...if anti-choicers have this much power, what's next on the chopping block?
Under the bill, any individual — regardless of sex — who uses their own money to purchases a health insurance plan that includes coverage of elective abortion services would not be allowed to any deduct health care costs from their income tax bill. And if a woman uses funds from a tax-free Medical Savings Account or other flexible pre-tax plan, she would be required to report the money spent on abortion services as taxable income. Additionally, small businesses that receive tax credits for providing health insurance for their employees would see their taxes go up if they fail to choose a plan that does not cover abortions. These provisions would be enforced by the IRS, which means that if you’re a woman and you get audited, be ready to prove to government investigators that you did not have an abortion over the past year.
Check out this video; some of the statements coming out of the mouths of these straight white dudes...will make your jaw drop.
The fuss over HR3 flared up and died a couple of months ago, and it was mainly focused on the fact that the GOP legislators who wrote it tried to erase the rape exception for federal funding for abortions, narrowing it down to "forcible rape", a move that would define rape in such a way as to eliminate something like 85% of rape cases. Of course, the entire bill itself is atrocious, since it's an attempt to ban any insurance funding whatsoever for abortion, and I suspect their next move will be to make it illegal for women to use any transportation---including roads---subsidized by taxpayers to get to the clinic to have abortions. (I'm only half kidding.)
...while the GOP claimed they were going to take the "forcible rape" language out...they found a way to put it back in:...
...this conservative loathing for teenage girls is just indicative of the larger principle at stake here, which is an all-out assault on women that is concentrated on the most vulnerable.
Public-health experts are watching the way the HPV vaccine controversy plays out because it’s seen as a dress rehearsal for other potential vaccines for sexually-transmitted diseases such as HIV.
[Feministe - Jill]
[Feministe - Chally]
I’m signal-boosting Scarleteen‘s new Find-a-Doc service. For those who are not familiar, Scarleteen is a wonderful organisation aimed at educating teens and other young people about sexuality, and it’s very much worth looking at and
...This most recent study, carried out by Danish researchers...tracked a whopping 84,620 girls and women...who had a first trimester abortion or who had birthed a baby (for the first time).
...[It] actually confirms that in fact childbirth is more psych
[Crooks and Liars - David Neiwert]
It tells you just how degraded our national discourse has become -- how utterly corrupted by the Fox Propaganda Channel it has been -- that two of its leading anchors can run an entire segment legitimizing a hoax video
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