Posts by Vicki Saporta
We’re Back from Vacation With Your News Update
Dr. Lester Crawford, who headed the FDA when the agency made its controversial decision to withhold a decision on making emergency contraception available over the counter, is facing a criminal inquiry about making false statements to Congress. Emily Lyons, a nurse who was injured when anti-choice extremist Eric Rudolf bombed her facility, has still not…
Read MoreA Personal Choice
Emily White reflects on her decision to terminate a pregnancy as a college student in South Dakota. Read The Stranger article. Christina Page chronicles how anti-choice restrictions on reproductive freedom have affected the United States. Page is the author of How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex. Read her…
Read MoreMust-Read Pro-Choice News
The New York Times reports on how South Dakotans are responding to the national attention they have received after banning almost all abortions in the state. Felicia H. Stewart, a former NAF board member who was influential in the fight to make emergency contraception available in the U.S., died last Thursday of cancer. Read about…
Read MoreLa Times Profiles Pro-Choice Activists in South Dakota
The LA Times has an inspiring story about the success of activists who are gathering signatures to place South Dakota’s abortion ban on the ballot. Yesterday the FDA declared a death previously reported after the use of mifepristone/misoprostol unrelated to abortion. Read the update. Anti-choice advocates in South Dakota have set up a legal fund…
Read MoreEl Salvador: Where Abortion is Outlawed
What happens when abortion is illegal? The New York Times Magazine investigates that question in a report from El Salvador, a country where abortion is outlawed in every circumstance. Anti-abortion protestors in Omaha, Nebraska, have started to protest providers and clinic workers at their homes. Read the article in the Sioux City Journal. A sweeping…
Read MoreThe New Sandra Day O’Connor
The New York Times has an op-ed analyzing the significance of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy replacing Sandra Day O’Connor as the Court’s swing seat. The Hill reports on Democratic Senators’ strategy for passing the Prevention First Act, a bill that would expand access to contraception. To find out how you can advocate for pro-choice…
Read MoreCNN Profiles South Dakota Provider
CNN has a story on one of the abortion providers who routinely flies into South Dakota to help care for women at the state’s only comprehensive reproductive health care clinic. Watch a clip from the CNN story In 2005 Quebec passed a law that would increase teens’ access to birth control, but the reforms still…
Read MorePro-Choice News From Home and Abroad
NAF was mentioned in a story about the increasingly extreme tactics of anti-choice advocates in the United Kingdom. Read the London Daily Telegraph article. The New York Times has a story about pro-choice members of the clergy. The Inter Press Service has a story on how outdated abortion laws force African women to resort to…
Read MoreRepresentative Maloney Introduces the Stop Deceptive Advertising in Women’s Services Act
Yesterday, I took part in a press conference about a bill that would stop the deceptive advertising practices of Crisis Pregnancy Centers. Here is my statement. Read the New York Sun article about the bill. Read the text of the bill.
Read MoreNews Roundup
The Associated Press reports that the South Dakota abortion ban may not apply to the state’s Native American reservations. The Houston Chronicle reports on how women in Texas are struggling with state cuts to reproductive health care services. Connie Schultz, a columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, writes about how religious faith supports pro-choice values.…
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