The latest report we have from our Planned Parenthood in Haiti, Profamil, is that our two clinics in Port au Prince and Jacmel are, if not totally destroyed, then unusable. The staff has tried to salvage what supplies they can, but have been largely unsuccessful.
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Author: alexandersanger
Opening Pandora’s Box
There is an article entitled, “Opening Pandora’s Box”, in the Headline Bistro of November 16, 2009 by Vicki Thorn, on the subject of hormonal contraception and its influence on mate choice. The article quotes Beyond Choice extensively. The article is aimed at a Catholic readership. You can read it at:
Presentation of the IPPF/WHR Medal of Honor
By Alexander Sanger
To the Family of George Tiller, M.D.
September 25, 2009
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Fetal Personhood Laws
One of The United States’ most well-known, but fraught, exports, from the point of view of importing nations, is its culture – most notably its music, television and movies. Less well known, but of greater consequence for women, is the export of new anti-choice tactics by the Catholic Church and its allies in the culture war that insists that all abortion be outlawed. The newest of these tactics is the Fetal Personhood Law.
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Hate Speech Brings Down a Bull Moose
During the election campaign of 1912, a mentally-unbalanced man fired a shot at Theodore Roosevelt, the candidate of the Bull Moose Party, at a rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The bullet was slowed by TR’s lengthy speech, which he had double folded in his pocket, and by his eyeglasses case, nevertheless the bullet entered his body and he was bleeding profusely. Roosevelt declined to seek immediate medical attention and mounted the podium, announcing that he had been shot but that “it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
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Bye-Bye Gag Rule — Hello Family Planning Funding Increases
As expected, on January 23, 2009, President Obama rescinded, by Executive order, the Mexico City Policy/Global Gag Rule and announced that he would ask Congress to fund the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which has been denied US funding for the past eight years.
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George Tiller
In August 2004 I journeyed to Kansas City to do a benefit with George Tiller to raise funds for his political action committee, ProKanDo.
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George Tiller
In August 2004 I journeyed to Kansas City to do a benefit with George Tiller to raise funds for his political action committee, ProKanDo.
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