by Alexander Sanger

What do a collapsing sweatshop in Bangladesh, the denial of a lifesaving abortion to a young woman in El Salvador and the kidnapping, rape and torture of three women in Cleveland have in common?
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Pat Robertson: Planned Parenthood Founder Had Plan to ‘Lead The Black People Toward Euthanasia’

by Paige Lavender

May 9, 2013

Televangelist Pat Robertson slammed Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger on Wednesday, saying her writings advocated a plan to drive minorities “toward euthanasia.”
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by Alexander Sanger

Several U.S. states are falling over themselves — and in some cases failing — to ban abortion, abortion clinics and access to the few clinics that remain. This is not a new phenomenon.
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by Alexander Sanger

The Bloomberg administration in New York recently launched a series of subway ads condemning teen pregnancy by trying to shame teen mothers into delaying childbirth.
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Conversation with Joan Garry

Here is the link to my 20 minute conversation with non-profit guru, Joan Garry, on reproductive rights, the role of non-profits, board-CEO relationships and other things.
Enjoy!
http://www.joangarry.com/podcast-nonprofit-leader-alexander-sanger/

Why The Rise and Fall in Teen Pregnancy?

Two news stories – one about Canada’s rising teen pregnancy rate and one about the falling US teen pregnancy rate, both blaming the same rotten economy, with Canadian observers stating that the dismal economic prospects lead girls to become mothers and US observers opining that lack of economic prospects deters early childbearing. While Canada overall has about half the teen pregnancy rate as the US, the state of Maine and the adjoining Province of New Brunswick have a virtually identical rate.
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by Alexander Sanger

A 40th Anniversary – a cause for celebration. A 40th birthday – a midlife crisis. Roe v. Wade, turning 40 next week, is cause for both.
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Uruguay legalises abortion — Or Does It?

From the BBC:
Uruguay has become the second country in Latin America, after communist Cuba, to legalise abortion for all women.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh Looks at Her Life, Her Children, Pregnancy and Abortion

In 1946 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, poet, essayist, writer, pilot, wife of Charles Lindbergh and mother of five living children (her first child had been kidnapped and killed in 1932), found herself unexpectedly pregnant. The following is an excerpt from her diary entry of January 5, 1947. It is reprinted with the permission of Reeve Lindbergh from her new book, Anne Morrow Lindbergh – Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986.


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