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Pro-Choice Friday News Rundown
Since when in the history of ever has abortion based solely on race or sex been a prevalent issue in Arizona and why is Rep. Trent Franks wasting the legislature’s time with this fiasco? Does he...
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Pro-Choice Friday News Rundown
In case you hadn’t heard, Arizona’s new abortion law is horrendous. (RH Reality Check) Arizona has also passed a craptacular contraception bill that would allow employers with “religious objections to...
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Pro-Choice Friday News Rundown
A judge in Nebraska’s Supreme Court ruled that a 16-year-old foster child was not “mature enough” to have an abortion. She is, apparently, mature enough to: endure nine months of a potentially...
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Brookline Clinic Shootings: December 30, 1994
BROOKLINE, MASS., DEC. 30 — A gunman dressed in black opened fire with a rifle at two abortion clinics here this morning, killing two female staff workers and wounding at least five other people. This...
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Looking Back at Loving v. Virginia: The 50th Anniversary of a Landmark Case
Bettmann/Corbis via New York Times When Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving started dating in the early 1950s, the idea that their relationship could change history could not have seemed more remote. When...
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Pro-Choice Friday News Rundown
Let’s start this week’s rundown on a ridiculous note. Apparently a bunch of weirdos think a sticker on the head of a penis is an alternative to a condom. #FacePalm (Slate) 45’s administration...
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After Charlottesville: The Role of Gender-Based Hatred in White Nationalism
Memorial at the site of Heather Heyer’s death. Photo courtesy of Tristan Williams Photography, Charlottesville. Like many people, I spent the weekend of August 12 and 13 glued to the news coming out of...
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Brothers in Arms, Part 1: Racist Anti-Abortion Rhetoric from the Restell...
Newspaper illustration of Madame Restell in jail, February 23, 1878 This article is our first installment in a series that explores the historical and contemporary links between racial intolerance and...
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Brothers in Arms, Part 2: Race and Abortion from Roe to the Reagan Years
This article is our second installment in a series that explores the historical and contemporary links between racial intolerance and opposition to abortion. Previously, this series examined how fears...
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Pro-Choice Friday News Rundown
Arizona Republican Don Shooter has been expelled from the state Legislature over years of sexually harassing women. Good riddance to bad rubbish. (AZ Central) It’s so nice to be able to report that...
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Brothers in Arms, Part 4: The Gathering Storm of Patriots and Plainclothes...
This article is our final installment in a series that explores the historical and contemporary links between racial intolerance and opposition to abortion. Previously, this series examined the...
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What the RBG Biopic Is (and Isn’t) About
In July, when Focus Features began ramping up promotion for its forthcoming film On the Basis of Sex, many news sources reported that Felicity Jones would play a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she went...
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The Past Isn’t Always in the Past: Covington Catholic and the Politics of...
Nathan Phillips (center) leads a dance at the Indigenous Peoples March. Image (detail): Joe Flood It was hard to miss the video that went viral on the weekend of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. On...
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Women Harnessing the Law
Happy Women’s History Month! Throughout this country’s history, the law hasn’t been consistently fair across gender lines, classifying women as second-class citizens and making assumptions about people...
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When Miscarriage Is a Crime
The following post comes to us via Ava Budavari-Glenn, a political communications major and a nonprofit communications minor who is entering her sophomore year at Emerson College. She is a writer whose...
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Yes, Virginia, Local Elections Do Matter
This post is from Planned Parenthood Arizona Strategic Relations Officer Kelley Dupps, who traveled to Virginia in late 2019 to work on state campaigns and help turn Virginia blue. After the news broke...
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