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Anti-Woman Billboard on Lombard between Franklin and Gough
This anti-woman billboard announcing that a fetus at 16 days is equivalent to the person carrying it begs to be altered.
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There's a sweet "God Bless You," at the end of their message.
Here is their website.
http://prolifeacrossamerica.org/
Here is their website.
http://prolifeacrossamerica.org/
Why does it always have to be framed in the context of anti-woman vs anti-child? Why can't pro-woman and pro-child be the same? The same forces that cause a woman to have an abortion are the same forces that have oppressed women for ages. \
Think about it.
What causes a woman to choose abortion?
Poverty
hopelessness
rejection
I say reach out to our sisters, mothers daughters, embrace them and the child they are carrying! A child is a gift to be cherished!
Think about it.
What causes a woman to choose abortion?
Poverty
hopelessness
rejection
I say reach out to our sisters, mothers daughters, embrace them and the child they are carrying! A child is a gift to be cherished!
So do you really think the pro-life americans care about what the causes of abortions are (poverty etc.) If that were the case then they would spend every dollar of their money on pregnancy prevention instead of preaching abstinence only, discouraging condom distribution etc. as well as harassing women at FAMILY PLANNING CENTERS, oh i'm sorry what do you call them, abortion mills? Oh and don't forget fighting to enact laws that restrict ALL abortions, not giving a crap whether a woman was raped. Just because they stick a cute looking baby on a billboard doesn't mean they really care about women or children, otherwise there would be no such thing as an unwanted child because they would all be adopted by pro-lifers.
Yes, we do care about the causes of abortion. Government research all indicates that single women with dependent children are at greatest risk of living in poverty. Their children are at greatest risk of ending up in foster care, involved in drug use, and incarceration. It doesn't matter the financial or social status of the women before they became single parents.
We have raised a generation of men who feel no sense of responsibility towards the children they have helped bring into this world. Girlfriend gets pregnant, give her some cash and drive her to the clinic. If not, baby your on your own. It is the objectification of women as disposable sexual objects that have contributed to this thinking by men.
We have raised a generation of women who feel that men are not necessary, "I can raise my child myself!" Well that sounds real cool at first, but after a string of men with children from each one, you end up with young people with such low feelings of self worth the cycle repeats itself.
What we have lost as a society is the sense of commitment to each other, the sense of self respect and sense that I am responsible for my actions, and the consequences that ensue. We need to raise our sons to respect and honor women and raise our daughters to respect and honor men as well. Not very progressive thinking, actually quite provincial. They say charity begins at home. That means not just giving money to needy people, but loving each other and ensuring our loved ones all of their needs are met. You don't need a government program for this.
Pro-abortion supporters always trot out the hard cases, rape, incest, threat to the mothers health etc. How many abortions actually fall into that category?
Just for the record, I am raising a grandson who might otherwise have been aborted if his mother had not been determined to have him. Her parents pressed her to consider it as an option, but we gave her the opportunity to give him life. So I guess I can say I put my money where my mouth is.
We have raised a generation of men who feel no sense of responsibility towards the children they have helped bring into this world. Girlfriend gets pregnant, give her some cash and drive her to the clinic. If not, baby your on your own. It is the objectification of women as disposable sexual objects that have contributed to this thinking by men.
We have raised a generation of women who feel that men are not necessary, "I can raise my child myself!" Well that sounds real cool at first, but after a string of men with children from each one, you end up with young people with such low feelings of self worth the cycle repeats itself.
What we have lost as a society is the sense of commitment to each other, the sense of self respect and sense that I am responsible for my actions, and the consequences that ensue. We need to raise our sons to respect and honor women and raise our daughters to respect and honor men as well. Not very progressive thinking, actually quite provincial. They say charity begins at home. That means not just giving money to needy people, but loving each other and ensuring our loved ones all of their needs are met. You don't need a government program for this.
Pro-abortion supporters always trot out the hard cases, rape, incest, threat to the mothers health etc. How many abortions actually fall into that category?
Just for the record, I am raising a grandson who might otherwise have been aborted if his mother had not been determined to have him. Her parents pressed her to consider it as an option, but we gave her the opportunity to give him life. So I guess I can say I put my money where my mouth is.
Hopefully, someone has finally written "anti-women" on this insulting billboard in our pro-abortion city.
Having 6 annual anti-abortion marches now in San Francisco, all sponsored by the San Francisco Catholic Church, the same gang better known as child molesters and local city tax delinquents, and now an anti-abortion billboard and a major TV network, CBS, broadcasting a very clear anti-abortion ad, we are witnessing an expanding political agenda on the part of the ruling capitalist class to remove women from the workplace in a period of high unemployment, to keep women "barefoot and pregnant," as the saying goes, or as Hitler promoted anti-abortion: Kinder, Kuche, Kirche (Children, Kitchen, Church).
Capitalism has no solution to the jobs crisis; only a serious labor movement capable of carrying out a general strike to put an end to the private profit system can, in so doing, end the jobs crisis.
We won the right to abortion (not choice, but abortion) nationally with the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade in 1973 because labor was much stronger than now, making it possible for women to live independent lives and achieve a much greater education. In other words, without being slaves to gender, women could realize our full potential as thinking, active human beings.
For a timeline of abortion in the US, see
http://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/history_abortion.html#timeline
The National Abortion Federation at http://www.prochoice.org/ has lots of facts for everyone to consider. They also refer the reader to the excellent Guttmacher Institute website,
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html
1. They correctly describe abotion as part of women's healthcare.
2. As labor has weakened since 1973, women now have no abortion clinic in 87% of US counties.
3. 88% of abortions are done in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
4. 1/3 of American women have an abortion before age 45.
5. Most women are relieved, not sorry, that they had abortion as the fetus was an unwanted growth in their body and usually the reason for the abortion is economic: Inability to pay for raising a child.
6. Abortion saves women's lives:
"The 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade made it possible for women to get safe, legal abortions from well-trained medical practitioners. This led to dramatic decreases in pregnancy-related injury and death."
"The prohibition of legal abortion from the 1880s until 1973 came under the same anti-obscenity or Comstock laws that prohibited the dissemination of birth control information and services."
"Criminalization of abortion did not reduce the numbers of women who sought abortions. In the years before Roe v. Wade, the estimates of illegal abortions ranged as high as 1.2 million per year. Although accurate records could not be kept, it is known that between the 1880s and 1973, many thousands of women were harmed as a result of illegal abortion."
See
http://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/history_abortion.html
7. A wide variety of women obtain abortions, including Catholics and Evengelical Christians.
"Of the women obtaining abortions in 2000:
57% had some college education;
88% were from metropolitan areas; and
57% percent were low-income."
Marital Status
"Most women getting abortions (83%) are unmarried; 67% have never married, and 16% are separated, divorced, or widowed. Married women are significantly less likely than unmarried women to resolve unintended pregnancies through abortion."
Religion
"Women who obtain abortions represent every religious affiliation. 13% of abortion patients describe themselves as born-again or Evangelical Christians; while 22% of U.S. women are Catholic, 27% of abortion patients say they are Catholics."
See
http://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/facts/women_who.html
and
and the Guttmacher Institute provides this description at
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html:
Nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended, and four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion.[1] Twenty-two percent of all pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion.[2]
• Forty percent of pregnancies among white women, 69% among blacks and 54% among Hispanics are unintended.
• In 2005, 1.21 million abortions were performed, down from 1.31 million in 2000. From 1973 through 2005, more than 45 million legal abortions occurred.[2]
• Each year, about two percent of women aged 15-44 have an abortion; 47% of them have had at least one previous abortion.[3]
Number of abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44, by year
• At least half of American women will experience an unintended pregnancy by age 45[4], and, at current rates, about one-third will have had an abortion.[5,6]
WHO HAS ABORTIONS?
• Fifty percent of U.S. women obtaining abortions are younger than 25: Women aged 20–24 obtain 33% of all abortions, and teenagers obtain 17%.[7]
• Thirty-seven percent of abortions occur to black women, 34% to non-Hispanic white women, 22% to Hispanic women and 8% to women of other races.**
• Forty-three percent of women obtaining abortions identify themselves as Protestant, and 27% as Catholic.[3]
• Women who have never married obtain two-thirds of all abortions.[3]
• About 60% of abortions are obtained by women who have one or more children.[7]
• The abortion rate among women living below the federal poverty level ($9,570 for a single woman with no children) is more than four times that of women above 300% of the poverty level (44 vs. 10 abortions per 1,000 women). This is partly because the rate of unintended pregnancies among poor women (below 100% of poverty) is nearly four times that of women above 200% of poverty* (112 vs. 29 per 1,000 women[3,1]
• The reasons women give for having an abortion underscore their understanding of the responsibilities of parenthood and family life. Three-fourths of women cite concern for or responsibility to other individuals; three-fourths say they cannot afford a child; three-fourths say that having a baby would interfere with work, school or the ability to care for dependents; and half say they do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner.[8]
CONTRACEPTIVE USE
• Fifty-four percent of women who have abortions had used a contraceptive method (usually the condom or the pill) during the month they became pregnant. Among those women, 76% of pill users and 49% of condom users report having used their method inconsistently, while 13% of pill users and 14% of condom users report correct use.[9]
• Forty-six percent of women who have abortions had not used a contraceptive method during the month they became pregnant. Of these women, 33% had perceived themselves to be at low risk for pregnancy, 32% had had concerns about contraceptive methods, 26% had had unexpected sex and 1% had been forced to have sex.[9]
• Eight percent of women who have abortions have never used a method of birth control; nonuse is greatest among those who are young, poor, black, Hispanic or less educated.[9]
• About half of unintended pregnancies occur among the 11% of women who are at risk for unintended pregnancy but are not using contraceptives. Most of these women have practiced contraception in the past.[1,10]
PROVIDERS AND SERVICES
• The number of U.S. abortion providers declined by 2% between 2000 and 2005 (from 1,819 to 1,787). Eighty-seven percent of all U.S. counties lacked an abortion provider in 2005; 35% of women live in those counties.[2]
• Forty percent of providers offer very early abortions (even before the first missed period) and 96% offer abortion at eight weeks from the last menstrual period. Sixty-seven percent of providers offer at least some second-trimester abortion services (13 weeks or later), and 20% offer abortion after 20 weeks. Only 8% of all abortion providers offer abortions at 24 weeks.[2]
• The proportion of providers offering abortion at four or fewer weeks’ gestation increased from 7% in 1993 to 40% in 2005.[11]
• In 2005, the cost of a nonhospital abortion with local anesthesia at 10 weeks’ gestation ranged from $90 to $1,800; the average amount paid was $413.[2]
When women have abortions (in weeks from the last menstrual period)
Eighty-nine percent of abortions occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, 2004.
MEDICATION ABORTION
• In September 2000, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the abortion drug mifepristone to be marketed in the United States as an alternative to surgical abortion.
• In 2005, 57% of abortion providers, or 1,026 facilities, provided one or more medication abortions, a 70% increase from the first half of 2001. At least 10% of nonhospital abortion providers offer only medication abortion services.[2]
• Medication abortion accounted for 13% of all abortions, and 22% of abortions before nine weeks’ gestation, in 2005.[2]
SAFETY OF ABORTION
• The risk of abortion complications is minimal: Fewer than 0.3% of abortion patients experience a complication that requires hospitalization.[12]
• Abortions performed in the first trimester pose virtually no long-term risk of such problems as infertility, ectopic pregnancy, spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) or birth defect, and little or no risk of preterm or low-birth-weight deliveries.[13]
• Exhaustive reviews by panels convened by the U.S. and British governments have concluded that there is no association between abortion and breast cancer. There is also no indication that abortion is a risk factor for other cancers.[13]
• In repeated studies since the early 1980s, leading experts have concluded that abortion does not pose a hazard to women’s mental health.[14]
• The risk of death associated with abortion increases with the length of pregnancy, from one death for every one million abortions at or before eight weeks to one per 29,000 at 16–20 weeks—and one per 11,000 at 21 or more weeks.[15]
• Fifty-eight percent of abortion patients say they would have liked to have had their abortion earlier. Nearly 60% of women who experienced a delay in obtaining an abortion cite the time it took to make arrangements and raise money.[16]
• Teens are more likely than older women to delay having an abortion until after 15 weeks of pregnancy, when the medical risks associated with abortion are significantly higher.[17 ]
LAW AND POLICY
• In the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the Supreme Court ruled that women, in consultation with their physician, have a constitutionally protected right to have an abortion in the early stages of pregnancy—that is, before viability—free from government interference.
• In 1992, the Court reaffirmed the right to abortion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. However, the ruling significantly weakened the legal protections previously afforded women and physicians by giving states the right to enact restrictions that do not create an “undue burden” for women seeking abortion.
• Thirty-five states currently enforce parental consent or notification laws for minors seeking an abortion. The Supreme Court ruled that minors must have an alternative to parental involvement, such as the ability to seek a court order authorizing the procedure.[18]
• Even without specific parental involvement laws, six in 10 minors who have an abortion report that at least one parent knew about it.[19]
• Congress has barred the use of federal Medicaid funds to pay for abortions, except when the woman’s life would be endangered by a full-term pregnancy or in cases of rape or incest.
• Seventeen states use public funds to pay for abortions for some poor women, but only four do so voluntarily; the rest do so under a court order.[20] About 13% of all abortions in the United States are paid for with public funds[21] (virtually all from state governments).[22]
• Family planning clinics funded under Title X of the federal Public Health Service Act have helped women prevent 20 million unintended pregnancies during the last 20 years. An estimated nine million of these pregnancies would have ended in abortion.
TO THE YOUNGER GENERATION: Before the 1970s, most schools had no women's sports teams; the newspaper job listings separated "women's jobs" from "men's jobs," there were few women lawyers, judges, doctors, symphony musicians, architects, engineers, professors, legislators, scientists and the like. Women were not allowed to wear pants to school or work. Shot-gun marriages were common, that is, if a woman got pregnant while unwed, her parents would force her to marry the jerk who got her pregnant, as usually both she and the father were young kids in their teens. Being an unwed mother was to be considered a prostitute. There was also no such thing as being openly gay or a lesbian as that was illegal and could get one fired from one's job and essentially ostracized everywhere. We still have much to achieve, BUT WE WILL NOT GO BACK TO THE BAD OLD DAYS!
TO THE FASCIST US GOVERNMENT AND ITS ANTI-WOMEN, ANTI-GAY, ANTI-SCIENCE FRIENDS WE SAW:
FREE ABORTION ON DEMAND WITH NO RESTRICTIONS WHATSOEVER!
IT IS NOT A BABY UNTIL IT COMES OUT; THAT'S WHAT BIRTHDAYS ARE ALL ABOUT!
OUR BODIES, OUR LIVES, OUR RIGHT TO DECIDE!
KEEP YOU ROSARIES AND YOUR ANTI-WOMEN PREGNANT, POOR, UNEDUCATED, HOUSEWIFE AGENDA OFF OUR OVARIES!
GALILEO WAS RIGHT, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WAS AND IS WRONG!
SCIENCE MEANS KNOWLEDGE; RELIGION IS SUPERSTITION!
ABORTION IS A RIGHT!
EVOLUTION IS A FACT!
GAY MARRIAGE IS A CIVIL RIGHT!
Having 6 annual anti-abortion marches now in San Francisco, all sponsored by the San Francisco Catholic Church, the same gang better known as child molesters and local city tax delinquents, and now an anti-abortion billboard and a major TV network, CBS, broadcasting a very clear anti-abortion ad, we are witnessing an expanding political agenda on the part of the ruling capitalist class to remove women from the workplace in a period of high unemployment, to keep women "barefoot and pregnant," as the saying goes, or as Hitler promoted anti-abortion: Kinder, Kuche, Kirche (Children, Kitchen, Church).
Capitalism has no solution to the jobs crisis; only a serious labor movement capable of carrying out a general strike to put an end to the private profit system can, in so doing, end the jobs crisis.
We won the right to abortion (not choice, but abortion) nationally with the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade in 1973 because labor was much stronger than now, making it possible for women to live independent lives and achieve a much greater education. In other words, without being slaves to gender, women could realize our full potential as thinking, active human beings.
For a timeline of abortion in the US, see
http://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/history_abortion.html#timeline
The National Abortion Federation at http://www.prochoice.org/ has lots of facts for everyone to consider. They also refer the reader to the excellent Guttmacher Institute website,
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html
1. They correctly describe abotion as part of women's healthcare.
2. As labor has weakened since 1973, women now have no abortion clinic in 87% of US counties.
3. 88% of abortions are done in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
4. 1/3 of American women have an abortion before age 45.
5. Most women are relieved, not sorry, that they had abortion as the fetus was an unwanted growth in their body and usually the reason for the abortion is economic: Inability to pay for raising a child.
6. Abortion saves women's lives:
"The 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade made it possible for women to get safe, legal abortions from well-trained medical practitioners. This led to dramatic decreases in pregnancy-related injury and death."
"The prohibition of legal abortion from the 1880s until 1973 came under the same anti-obscenity or Comstock laws that prohibited the dissemination of birth control information and services."
"Criminalization of abortion did not reduce the numbers of women who sought abortions. In the years before Roe v. Wade, the estimates of illegal abortions ranged as high as 1.2 million per year. Although accurate records could not be kept, it is known that between the 1880s and 1973, many thousands of women were harmed as a result of illegal abortion."
See
http://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/history_abortion.html
7. A wide variety of women obtain abortions, including Catholics and Evengelical Christians.
"Of the women obtaining abortions in 2000:
57% had some college education;
88% were from metropolitan areas; and
57% percent were low-income."
Marital Status
"Most women getting abortions (83%) are unmarried; 67% have never married, and 16% are separated, divorced, or widowed. Married women are significantly less likely than unmarried women to resolve unintended pregnancies through abortion."
Religion
"Women who obtain abortions represent every religious affiliation. 13% of abortion patients describe themselves as born-again or Evangelical Christians; while 22% of U.S. women are Catholic, 27% of abortion patients say they are Catholics."
See
http://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/facts/women_who.html
and
and the Guttmacher Institute provides this description at
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html:
Nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended, and four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion.[1] Twenty-two percent of all pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion.[2]
• Forty percent of pregnancies among white women, 69% among blacks and 54% among Hispanics are unintended.
• In 2005, 1.21 million abortions were performed, down from 1.31 million in 2000. From 1973 through 2005, more than 45 million legal abortions occurred.[2]
• Each year, about two percent of women aged 15-44 have an abortion; 47% of them have had at least one previous abortion.[3]
Number of abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44, by year
• At least half of American women will experience an unintended pregnancy by age 45[4], and, at current rates, about one-third will have had an abortion.[5,6]
WHO HAS ABORTIONS?
• Fifty percent of U.S. women obtaining abortions are younger than 25: Women aged 20–24 obtain 33% of all abortions, and teenagers obtain 17%.[7]
• Thirty-seven percent of abortions occur to black women, 34% to non-Hispanic white women, 22% to Hispanic women and 8% to women of other races.**
• Forty-three percent of women obtaining abortions identify themselves as Protestant, and 27% as Catholic.[3]
• Women who have never married obtain two-thirds of all abortions.[3]
• About 60% of abortions are obtained by women who have one or more children.[7]
• The abortion rate among women living below the federal poverty level ($9,570 for a single woman with no children) is more than four times that of women above 300% of the poverty level (44 vs. 10 abortions per 1,000 women). This is partly because the rate of unintended pregnancies among poor women (below 100% of poverty) is nearly four times that of women above 200% of poverty* (112 vs. 29 per 1,000 women[3,1]
• The reasons women give for having an abortion underscore their understanding of the responsibilities of parenthood and family life. Three-fourths of women cite concern for or responsibility to other individuals; three-fourths say they cannot afford a child; three-fourths say that having a baby would interfere with work, school or the ability to care for dependents; and half say they do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner.[8]
CONTRACEPTIVE USE
• Fifty-four percent of women who have abortions had used a contraceptive method (usually the condom or the pill) during the month they became pregnant. Among those women, 76% of pill users and 49% of condom users report having used their method inconsistently, while 13% of pill users and 14% of condom users report correct use.[9]
• Forty-six percent of women who have abortions had not used a contraceptive method during the month they became pregnant. Of these women, 33% had perceived themselves to be at low risk for pregnancy, 32% had had concerns about contraceptive methods, 26% had had unexpected sex and 1% had been forced to have sex.[9]
• Eight percent of women who have abortions have never used a method of birth control; nonuse is greatest among those who are young, poor, black, Hispanic or less educated.[9]
• About half of unintended pregnancies occur among the 11% of women who are at risk for unintended pregnancy but are not using contraceptives. Most of these women have practiced contraception in the past.[1,10]
PROVIDERS AND SERVICES
• The number of U.S. abortion providers declined by 2% between 2000 and 2005 (from 1,819 to 1,787). Eighty-seven percent of all U.S. counties lacked an abortion provider in 2005; 35% of women live in those counties.[2]
• Forty percent of providers offer very early abortions (even before the first missed period) and 96% offer abortion at eight weeks from the last menstrual period. Sixty-seven percent of providers offer at least some second-trimester abortion services (13 weeks or later), and 20% offer abortion after 20 weeks. Only 8% of all abortion providers offer abortions at 24 weeks.[2]
• The proportion of providers offering abortion at four or fewer weeks’ gestation increased from 7% in 1993 to 40% in 2005.[11]
• In 2005, the cost of a nonhospital abortion with local anesthesia at 10 weeks’ gestation ranged from $90 to $1,800; the average amount paid was $413.[2]
When women have abortions (in weeks from the last menstrual period)
Eighty-nine percent of abortions occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, 2004.
MEDICATION ABORTION
• In September 2000, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the abortion drug mifepristone to be marketed in the United States as an alternative to surgical abortion.
• In 2005, 57% of abortion providers, or 1,026 facilities, provided one or more medication abortions, a 70% increase from the first half of 2001. At least 10% of nonhospital abortion providers offer only medication abortion services.[2]
• Medication abortion accounted for 13% of all abortions, and 22% of abortions before nine weeks’ gestation, in 2005.[2]
SAFETY OF ABORTION
• The risk of abortion complications is minimal: Fewer than 0.3% of abortion patients experience a complication that requires hospitalization.[12]
• Abortions performed in the first trimester pose virtually no long-term risk of such problems as infertility, ectopic pregnancy, spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) or birth defect, and little or no risk of preterm or low-birth-weight deliveries.[13]
• Exhaustive reviews by panels convened by the U.S. and British governments have concluded that there is no association between abortion and breast cancer. There is also no indication that abortion is a risk factor for other cancers.[13]
• In repeated studies since the early 1980s, leading experts have concluded that abortion does not pose a hazard to women’s mental health.[14]
• The risk of death associated with abortion increases with the length of pregnancy, from one death for every one million abortions at or before eight weeks to one per 29,000 at 16–20 weeks—and one per 11,000 at 21 or more weeks.[15]
• Fifty-eight percent of abortion patients say they would have liked to have had their abortion earlier. Nearly 60% of women who experienced a delay in obtaining an abortion cite the time it took to make arrangements and raise money.[16]
• Teens are more likely than older women to delay having an abortion until after 15 weeks of pregnancy, when the medical risks associated with abortion are significantly higher.[17 ]
LAW AND POLICY
• In the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the Supreme Court ruled that women, in consultation with their physician, have a constitutionally protected right to have an abortion in the early stages of pregnancy—that is, before viability—free from government interference.
• In 1992, the Court reaffirmed the right to abortion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. However, the ruling significantly weakened the legal protections previously afforded women and physicians by giving states the right to enact restrictions that do not create an “undue burden” for women seeking abortion.
• Thirty-five states currently enforce parental consent or notification laws for minors seeking an abortion. The Supreme Court ruled that minors must have an alternative to parental involvement, such as the ability to seek a court order authorizing the procedure.[18]
• Even without specific parental involvement laws, six in 10 minors who have an abortion report that at least one parent knew about it.[19]
• Congress has barred the use of federal Medicaid funds to pay for abortions, except when the woman’s life would be endangered by a full-term pregnancy or in cases of rape or incest.
• Seventeen states use public funds to pay for abortions for some poor women, but only four do so voluntarily; the rest do so under a court order.[20] About 13% of all abortions in the United States are paid for with public funds[21] (virtually all from state governments).[22]
• Family planning clinics funded under Title X of the federal Public Health Service Act have helped women prevent 20 million unintended pregnancies during the last 20 years. An estimated nine million of these pregnancies would have ended in abortion.
TO THE YOUNGER GENERATION: Before the 1970s, most schools had no women's sports teams; the newspaper job listings separated "women's jobs" from "men's jobs," there were few women lawyers, judges, doctors, symphony musicians, architects, engineers, professors, legislators, scientists and the like. Women were not allowed to wear pants to school or work. Shot-gun marriages were common, that is, if a woman got pregnant while unwed, her parents would force her to marry the jerk who got her pregnant, as usually both she and the father were young kids in their teens. Being an unwed mother was to be considered a prostitute. There was also no such thing as being openly gay or a lesbian as that was illegal and could get one fired from one's job and essentially ostracized everywhere. We still have much to achieve, BUT WE WILL NOT GO BACK TO THE BAD OLD DAYS!
TO THE FASCIST US GOVERNMENT AND ITS ANTI-WOMEN, ANTI-GAY, ANTI-SCIENCE FRIENDS WE SAW:
FREE ABORTION ON DEMAND WITH NO RESTRICTIONS WHATSOEVER!
IT IS NOT A BABY UNTIL IT COMES OUT; THAT'S WHAT BIRTHDAYS ARE ALL ABOUT!
OUR BODIES, OUR LIVES, OUR RIGHT TO DECIDE!
KEEP YOU ROSARIES AND YOUR ANTI-WOMEN PREGNANT, POOR, UNEDUCATED, HOUSEWIFE AGENDA OFF OUR OVARIES!
GALILEO WAS RIGHT, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WAS AND IS WRONG!
SCIENCE MEANS KNOWLEDGE; RELIGION IS SUPERSTITION!
ABORTION IS A RIGHT!
EVOLUTION IS A FACT!
GAY MARRIAGE IS A CIVIL RIGHT!
For more information:
http://www.prochoice.org/
...you are kidding yourself if you think relatives come to the rescue for every unwanted pregnancy, or even a significant number of them!
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