By Barbara Goldberg
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Outside the crumbling Brooklyn building where the first U.S. birth control clinic opened 100 years ago, Alexander Sanger reflected on the move that landed his grandmother in jail and fueled a controversy over women’s reproductive rights that has raged ever since.
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MotherStruck!
by: Alexander Sanger
Reproductive freedom. What do these words mean? They mean having the children you want, when you want. They mean not becoming pregnant when you don’t want and not having children you don’t want. They mean sexual freedom; becoming and expressing who you are. Continue reading
Words Kill
After the killings in the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts in December 1994, we at Planned Parenthood of New York City ran the ad below in the New York Times.
Some things never change, or are slow to change. The rhetoric of opponents of safe and legal abortion most definitely contributed to the mindset of the attacker. These opponents are as responsible as the killer. They aided and abetted the man with the assault rifle. Continue reading
Jailed for Birth Control
by Alexander Sanger
Entrapment, then jail for birth control? Not for abortion, for birth control? The idea would be ludicrous if not for the recent use of entrapment and edited videos trying to establish the ‘guilt’ of family planning providers allegedly ‘selling’ fetal remains after legal abortions. The attack here is on family planning providers, and Planned Parenthood in particular, with Congress and state legislatures trying eliminate their funding, thereby forcing Planned Parenthood to close its doors and stop serving patients unable to pay. Continue reading
My First Opera
My First Opera – in the Fall 2015 issue of Opera America
Planned Parenthood Slams Pope Francis Over Abortion Speech, Women’s Rights
by Cristina Silver, September 25, 2015
Planned Parenthood has harsh words for Pope Francis after the leader of the Roman Catholic Church championed life — including before birth — in his address to Congress on Thursday. Francis and the church are limiting women’s rights by urging Catholics not to use contraception, said a spokesman for the women’s health organization. Continue reading
UN Sustainable Development Goals
No More Deja Vu
by Alexander Sanger
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will define the global development agenda for the next 15 years, will be formally adopted by heads of state at the United Nations beginning today.
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A Man’s Home Is Not His Castle
by Alexander Sanger
Earlier this month, the United Nations Human Rights Council, an inter-governmental body charged with upholding human rights around the world, issued a resolution on the importance of the family in achieving sustainable development. Continue reading
Illustration in the Island Journal
Link to my illustration in the Island Journal
http://www.islandjournal.com/article/view-of-the-world-from-north-haven/
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