Pro Choice
We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices - Hillary Clinton
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What if women had total control over pregnancy?
For millennia, society has treated women as subordinate to men in everything from biology to intellect. Scientists – who historically almost always have been male – also viewed the world through this lens. Researchers studying animal reproduction, for example, focused almost exclusively on males.
“It was once thought that females were this passive organ in which sperm cruises on in and the egg doesn’t do much,” says Patrice Rosengrave, a research fellow at the University of Otago in Christchurch, New Zealand. “It was all to do with men – with sperm.”
It’s only recently that researchers have started to uncover the astounding array of methods that females of many species use…
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Here's exactly how restricting abortion harms public health
The recent abortion bills don't align with what health experts know about abortion safety.
How a Divided Left Is Losing the Battle on Abortion
Miscalculations, and an unexpected victory by President Trump, have put abortion access at its most vulnerable point in decades, and the left on the defensive. Now it is trying to recover.
How the abortion debate moved away from “safe, legal, and rare”
Democratic politicians used to say abortions should be rare. Here’s how that changed.
Each person has a unique reason to be pro-choice. Here are some of ours
I am pro-choice because I don't think there is any reason why a woman should have to face all the consequences from something she did not do alone. If a guy can get a woman pregnant and then run away, there is no reason why she should be the one responsible for everything.
What the new global pro-choice movements can teach politics
The world is experiencing a vital moment in pro-choice politics. There has been huge progress in countries like Argentina and the Republic of Ireland contributing to historic commitments by their governments to ensuring abortion access. But this is not just an important moment in abortion rights. It is a critical juncture in feminism and politics.
A scientist weighs up the five main anti-abortion arguments
Medical science is often invoked on both sides of the debate. So what is the evidence on some of the main claims around abortion?
Abortion, Distortion And The Elephant In The Room
First, on the general topic of abortion, and for whatever it’s worth, I am as I have always been emphatically pro-choice, and just as emphatically anti-abortion. No one is “for” abortion, least of all the women who resort to it.
Are you pro-choice? It's time to shout it from the rooftops
A majority of Americans support Roe v Wade, and yet so many of us remain quiet about our opinions. It’s time for that to end.
How Anti-Abortion Rhetoric Shapes Pro-Choice Advocacy
Historians and advocates for reproductive justice say our understanding of abortion has been influenced by the anti-abortion movement's "pro-life" arguments against it.
I Found the Outer Limits of My Pro-choice Beliefs
In an ultrasound room far from home, I discovered more than I was looking for.
If We Can’t Agree, Can We Coexist?
“The truth is that the best argument on each side is a damn good one,” Caitlin Flanagan writes in a new Atlantic magazine essay about abortion.
Pro-Choice Groups Are Changing Their Strategy for a New Era of Attacks on Abortion
NARAL is shifting its strategy to embrace the term "reproductive freedom," which polls well with moderates and independents.
The Abortion Wars Have Become a Fight Over Science
This year’s skirmish wasn’t actually unusual, however. Rather, it was revealing of a larger shift in the terms of the abortion debate. Over the past few decades, the abortion wars have become as much a fight about science and medicine as they are about the law and the Constitution.
They Called Her “the Che Guevara of Abortion Reformers”
A decade before Roe, Pat Maginnis’ radical activism—and righteous rage—changed the abortion debate forever.
What Does it Mean to Be “Pro-Choice?”
In its most narrow sense, the term “pro-choice” is short-hand for a group or individual who believes a woman should be able to choose an abortion if and when she desires to terminate a pregnancy that is either unintended and untenable, or simply untenable. And certainly, the anti-choice community focuses solely on this aspect of the pro-choice agenda. But in the fullest sense–and in the political sense–it means much, much more because in truth being “pro-choice” is a political worldview that sees women as equal actors and full participants in society and is based on the belief that every born child should be a wanted, loved, cared-for child
Why Pro-Choice Groups Vastly Outspend Pro-Life Groups in Political Campaigns
By some measures, pro-choice groups outspend their pro-life counterparts by as much as 10-to-one. But it all depends on what you count as an abortion policy group.
Women Are Not a Monolith
Pro-life women have also been excluded from the national march. Although a number of self-described pro-life feminist groups signed up to be sponsors and march alongside the original Women’s March, they were removed from the march’s official list of supporters because of their anti-abortion views.
Pro-Choice Quotes
These 10 pro-choice quotes will make you think. That's a rare and precious thing in an abortion debate, where the level of discourse is so low that having a real, meaningful discussion about the issue is usually impossible.
What if women had total control over pregnancy?
Even with today’s contraceptive options, more than a third of pregnancies are unintended. How would the world change if women only ever got pregnant when, and at the age, they wanted?
MIT Pro-Choice
Welcome to MIT Pro-Choice. We are a new organization on campus dedicated to support women facing unwanted pregnancies and provide an alternate voice to the anti-abortionists at MIT.
NARAL Pro-Choice America
NARAL Pro-Choice America uses the political process to guarantee every person the right to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices, including preventing unintended pregnancy, raising healthy children, and choosing legal abortion.
National Abortion Federation
The National Abortion Federation (NAF) is the professional association of abortion providers.
National Network of Abortion Funds
The National Network of Abortion Funds works to make sure that all women and girls can get the abortions they seek. If you are a woman looking for help paying for an abortion, we are here today to help you get what you need. The local abortion funds in our organization help women pay for abortions they can’t otherwise afford.
NOW
NOW is the largest, most comprehensive feminist advocacy group in the U.S. We take action to bring women into full participation in society -- sharing equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities with men, while living free from discrimination.
Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood delivers vital sexual and reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of women, men, and young people worldwide. For over 100 years, Planned Parenthood has promoted a commonsense approach to women’s health and well-being, based on respect for each individual’s right to make informed, independent decisions about health, sex, and family planning.
Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project
WRRAP is a non-partisan, non-profit organization helping women gain access to safe, legal abortion services and emergency contraceptives. We work with pre-qualified, reputable reproductive health clinics across the U.S. on behalf of disadvantaged women in need.
Center for Reproductive Rights
The Center for Reproductive Rights uses the power of law to advance reproductive rights as fundamental human rights around the world.
Guttmacher Institute
The Guttmacher Institute believes that good reproductive health policy starts with credible research. Through an interrelated program of high-quality research, evidence-based advocacy and strategic communications, the Institute works to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United States and globally.
Rewire.News
Rewire.News is an award-winning, nonprofit daily online publication devoted to evidence-based reporting on reproductive and sexual health, rights, and justice, and the intersections of racial, environmental, immigration, and economic justice.
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