NOW Applauds Plan B Decision
NOW applauds today’s ruling by a federal judge ordering the Food and Drug Administration to make Plan B available to women and girls of all ages without prescription.
issue: Abortion Rights/Reproductive Issues
The antiabortion movement’s brewing civil war
Irin Carmon writes for Salon: “Some antiabortion activists were crowing about their apparent victories in North Dakota last week — including an unprecedented ban on abortion at six weeks, before most women know they’re pregnant — but, notably, that’s not…
Rallies held to protest N.D. anti-abortion measures
An article by the Associated Press appears on the CBS News website: “More than 300 abortion-rights activists carried signs and chanted, “Veto! Veto! Veto!” in a demonstration Monday at the state Capitol protesting a package of measures that would give th…
Cruelty to Women Overseas
The Editorial Board of The New York Times writes: “Each year some 47,000 women around the world die as a result of unsafe abortions. Efforts to reduce that toll are severely hampered by the Helms amendment, which was originally enacted in 1973 and restri…
North Dakota Poised To Enact Six-Week Abortion Ban, The Most Stringent Restriction In The Nation
Tara Culp-Ressler writes at ThinkProgress: “Not to be outdone by Arkansas lawmakers — who recently overrode their governor to impose a 12-week abortion ban, the strictest in the country — abortion opponents in North Dakota want to go even further.”
