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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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 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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