By Alexander Sanger

That great reformer Martin Luther said, “If [women] become tired or even die, that does not matter. Let them die in childbirth–that is why they are there.” Luther never recanted this statement. I guess he had other fish, or indulgences, to fry. Continue reading →

This week Spain decriminalized abortion up to 14 weeks of pregnancy. The government enacted the law over the strenuous opposition of the Roman Catholic Church and brings Spain’s abortion law in line with much of the rest of Europe. Minors of 16 and 17 can obtain abortions without parental consent and in some cases notification. This is a major victory for women, which we hope to replicate in the former Spanish colonies in the Western Hemisphere.

Photo from International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region showing the complete devastation of its PROFAMIL Haiti clinic. Continue reading →

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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By Alexander Sanger
To the Family of George Tiller, M.D.
September 25, 2009
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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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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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As expected, on January 23, 2009, President Obama rescinded, by Executive order, the Mexico City Policy/Global Gag Rule and announced that he would ask Congress to fund the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which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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