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#research: #womenslives: It’s official: abortion is more regulated than any health care service – @MsMagazine
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #patriarchiesrealign, #politics, #womensrights, #research, #womenslives, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / March 3, 2018A new study published in the American Journal of Public Health confirmed what many reproductive rights advocates have long known: abortion is more regulated and legislated than any other health care...
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#womenslives: Abortion on demand and without apology – @feministire
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #womensrights, #humanrights, #womenslives, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism / October 15, 2017Pro-choicers: does the above sound familiar? If it doesn’t, you need to learn your fucking history. This was a slogan of the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s, a movement that succe...
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#research: #womensstories: when the personal becomes political: exploring the power of abortion storytelling – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womensrights, #humanrights, #womenslives, #law, #womensstories, #quickhits, #women / September 28, 2017Kate Cockrill and her research parter Antonio Biggs wanted to know if storytelling could help reduce the stigma around abortion. Aware of the harsh judgement often associated with abortion and other...
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#womenslives: Life under the world’s strictest anti-abortion law, on @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #quickhits / June 28, 2017A wavy-haired woman with a kind voice speaks into the camera. “I’m going to tell you how to do it.” Behind her, sun shines in Santiago, Chile. Cars honk; big red buses whiz by; men and women amble t...
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#maleficentmisogyny: women as incubators: How US law dehumanizes pregnant women -@broadly
By feimineach / in #politics, #maleficentmisogyny, #womensrights, #humanrights, #law, #misogyny, #quickhits, #women / June 1, 2017Today, many American women find themselves the subject of intense surveillance during pregnancy. Even as pregnant women happily anticipate the birth of a healthy child, families, friends, health car...
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#research: medical abortions online safe and effective
By feimineach / in #womensrights, #research, #law, #religion, #quickhits / May 17, 2017[Though still illegal for the women of Ireland.] A study into women who seek abortion pills online in the face of strict laws against terminations has found that almost 95% safely ended their pregn...
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#womenslives: Irish women relieved and grateful after using abortion pills
By feimineach / in #womensrights, #womenslives, #law, #religion, #quickhits / May 17, 2017[Only regret is that they are illegal. NB. Packages are STOPPED going into the Rep. of Ireland.] Women in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland who have obtained abortion pills online in def...
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#vivelafeminism: @BitchMedia: An alternative 100 days
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #humanrights, #patriarchy / May 6, 2017We're living dystopia but by gods, we got game. From bitch email dispatch: Brown Girls appeared onscreen. [OpenTV] The newly-announced Poetry Coalition gathered to defend the value of poetr...
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#vivelafeminism: going on the offensive for abortion rights – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #vivelafeminism, #womensrights, #law / April 26, 2017“We are seeing the Whole Woman’s Health Acts in particular being introduced in some states deeply hostile to reproductive rights,” Amanda Allen, senior state legislative counsel for the Center for R...
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#vivelafeminism: How Romania’s feminists are fighting back
By feimineach / in #quickhits / April 16, 2017Abortion has been legal in Romania since the fall of Ceausescu. Under his rule, it’s estimated 10,000 women died as a result of so-called illegal abortions. For post-communist Romania, legalising ab...
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#womenslives: The worst ‘alternative facts’ about abortion – @rewire_news
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / April 2, 2017Abortion Is Dangerous for Women’s Health The Reality: Evidence suggests a much different world-view from the fake narrative that abortion is medically harmful. Data show that the overall complicati...
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#womenslives: republican politician says women should be forced to carry dead fetuses to term – @broadly
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / April 1, 2017Earlier this week, during a committee hearing for an abortion ban that is being proposed in Ohio, a Republican state representative, Shannon Lundgren, mounted a troubling defense of her hardline stan...
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#womenslives: “My abortion made me appreciate all that abortion providers do for women” – @broadly
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / March 13, 2017I was nervous before my abortion. Even though I was confident in my decision to end my pregnancy, and even though I knew I would receive excellent care, I found myself shaking as I climbed onto the ex...
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#vivelafeminism: Irish women are going on strike to #protest the abortion ban (8th March) #repealthe8th
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 26, 2017Women in Ireland are going on strike to protest the country’s abortion ban.Pro-choice women will refuse to attend work on 8 March, as part of direct action to make the government pay attention to grow...
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#vivelafeminism: What Lena Dunham’s abortion comments tell us about feminism in 2016 – @TheDebrief
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 6, 2017My objection is not that she trivialised the reality and procedure of abortion. If anything, it would be useful to have more public acknowledgement of abortion as a usually minor and minimally traumat...
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#womensstories: abortion was my only choice -@msmagazine
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / December 20, 2016So what were my options? Force my grief stricken self through 9 months of pregnancy? Raise a child I was unfit to care for, or give the baby up? Anti-choice advocates are always so quick to suggest ad...
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#research: abortion doesn’t make women depressed, but lack of access does – @kbeccaandrews, @motherjones
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 19, 2016This is the latest data out of a yearslong study tracking abortion access that was published in JAMA Psychiatry by researchers at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health at the University of Ca...
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#womensstories: I had a miscarriage. Fetal burial rules would only amplify my grief – @voxdotcom
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / December 12, 2016My son would be turning 20 this month. He was due on December 15, 1996. But in June of 1996, when I was entering the second week of my second trimester, I had a miscarriage — in medical terms, a spont...
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#research: doctors, witches, and backalley surgeons: a new study looks at how abortion providers are portrayed on TV
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / November 1, 2016What the researchers found is refreshing: Abortion providers on TV aren’t overwhelmingly portrayed as evil or irresponsible. Except in rare cases of shows that are built around horror and gore—like Ha...
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#picturethis: Women in Poland march. And win.
By feimineach / in #picturethis, #quickhits / October 7, 2016#picturethis: Women in Poland march. And win. Thousands of women went on strike in Poland on Monday to protest the Polish government’s attempt at new legislation that would guarantee a five-year p...
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