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BACORR meeting Wednesday, March 8th at 6:30
BACORR is meeting at New Valencia Hall 1908 Mission at 15th....
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 4:02pm PST
S.D. Governor Signs Abortion Ban Into Law By CHET BROKAW, Associated Press Writer
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Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 11:01am PST
Iraqi Women Make Rare Trip to U.S. to Tell Their Stories of Life Under Occupation
This weekend, five Iraqi women arrived in New York City to begin a speaking tour to educate Americans about the reality in Iraq and meet with UN and US officials to call for a peace plan. Two of them join us in our firehouse studio: Faiza Al-Araji is a civil engineer and blogger, whose family recently fled to Jordan after her son was temporarily kidnapped, and Eman Ahmad Khamas, an Iraqi journalist, translator and human rights activist....
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 6:33am PST
BTL:South Dakota Anti-Abortion Forces Working to Overturn Roe vs. Wade
Interview with Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sat, Mar 4, 2006 3:47am PST
An act of social cruelty: South Dakota bars abortions for victims of rape and incest
Embarking on a deliberate challenge to the historic Roe v. Wade decision by the Supreme Court that legalized abortion throughout the United States, the South Dakota state legislature voted last week to outlaw all abortions except where the life of a pregnant woman was in danger. Governor Mike Rounds, a Republican like a majority of the state lawmakers, said he would sign the bill....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 10:32pm PST
Decision by Wal-Mart to Stock EC "Long Overdue"
Spurred on by a lawsuit in Massachusetts, national retail chain Wal-Mart announced Friday that it has decided to stock emergency contraception (EC) in all of its pharmacies, acquiescing to pressure from the National Organization for Women and other women's rights groups....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 9:27pm PST
Victory against Wal-Mart!
Click here to send a message to Wal-Mart:
http://prochoiceaction.org/campaign/walmart_pharmacyrefusal_3_3_06/wix3k3g4y5k5xki?...
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 9:16pm PST
NOW falsely accused of selling out the Prochoice movement by... (anti-choicer)?"
Just a typo? Or are Anti-choice trying to divide and conquer?...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 11:07pm PST
Stand With Our Iraqi Sisters
We owe it to them to stand with them in solidarity. You can do that by signing the
Urgent Call for Peace...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 10:05pm PST
Former 84 year old Maryland Governor Ogles Aide
Maryland's state Comptroller William Donald Schaefer (also Former Governor) refers to 24 year old female aide as "a pretty little girl" in harassment incident....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 11:00am PST
Planned Parenthood, NARAL and NOW sell out the movement
This article is by Jane Hamsher, the very good political blogger who runs the site called FireDogLake.In this article, she tells how NARAL and Planned Parenthood failed to defend Choice during the recent battles over Samuel Alito....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 3:15pm PST
OH MY GOD (or, OH YOUR GOD) "Pizza Magnate Seeks Catholic-Governed Town"
I cannot belive this shit...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 2:58pm PST
Mississippi follows South Dakota's lead, seeks to ban abortion
We were told the anti-choice states would try to overturn Roe v Wade as soon as they could, and... they are....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 10:50am PST
3/3+3/4: V-Day San Jose 2006
“The Vagina Monologues”
on March 3rd & 4th, 2006
7:30pm
Center for Spiritual Living
1195 Clark Street, San Jose, California
Tickets:
$15 General/ $12 Seniors & Students...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 11:48pm PST
Send a message of peace to the world on Sunday March 12th!
Be a part of the image: Sunday, March 12th, 2pm to 4pm. Arlington West Memorial
(Santa Monica Beach, just north of the pier.) Sign up below & let us know that
you'll be in the image on March 12th....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 11:31pm PST
Without reproductive rights, women are men's factory farms
Women own their bodies, we are not factory farms to be used for the industrialized mass production of consumer worker breeder units....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 6:39pm PST
Women in US Launch Sustained Protests Against De Facto Martial Law in the Philippines
GABRIELA Network USA, a Philippine-US women's solidarity mass organization, launches rolling national mobilization that will see daily protest actions in major cities in the US until the Philippine state of national emergency is lifted....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 3:12pm PST
Supreme Court Ends Protection Against Abortion Clinic Violence
Today the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that could add to the increasing difficulty women face in obtaining reproductive health services....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 12:20pm PST
State of Mandatory Motherhood: Sleeper Cells in South Dakota?
Attention Homeland Security: The Taliban may have sleeper cells in South Dakota!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 7:53am PST