Reproductive Rights

Spain

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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.

Fetal Personhood Laws

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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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Hate Speech Brings Down a Bull Moose

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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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