Awareness, Feminism | Posted by Jaded16 on 03/3/2010

Someone Needs To Take The Negative PR Off Of Abortion’s back

abortion in India: not everybody feels this way

As I was reading this post on “Abortion Doulas” I got to thinking about being pro-choice, abortion in general and about abortion in India in particular (as this is where I live). Out here, we tend to look at abortion as something shameful, disgusting, a thing to keep under wraps. No “good Indian” girl ever gets an abortion. If she does, people whisper about her in hushed tones for what she did was indeed disgusting. Interestingly, this is the attitude for abortion only for single women, unwed mothers etc. Within the sanctity of marriage, many women are forced to abort their unborn female fetuses. That isn’t entirely looked down upon. In fact, aborting the girl child is seen as the only solution.

Most T.V…

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Feminism | Posted by Veronica N on 02/10/2010

“But Baby…”

representing the pro-choice side at the super bowl: Scott Fujita

I am a 14 year old girl, and a freshman in high school. I go to a great school, have amazing friends, and have found a love so deep and so early it’s impossible to understand. That said, I am also a feminist. I am relatively new to the feminism sphere sure, but I have always been fast holding in my opinions, beliefs, and ideals. One big thing for me is pro-choice legality.

Today, I mentioned the fact that although I don’t care for either Super Bowl team this year, I am for the Saints because of Scott Fujita and what he stands for. My boyfriend has never taken me for a feminist and thought I didn’t seem like the ‘type’. He likes…

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Feminism, Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 02/2/2010

The Super Bowl and Abortion

2010 Super Bowl

This year I, like nearly 100 million other Americans, will watch the super bowl. However, this fact has very little to do with the game of football. I have no idea what occurs in this game, and if you asked me to name more than 3 football games I’d probably just walk away. The few times I’ve gone to see my high school team play I’ve left even more confused than before. No, I watch the super bowl for the ads.

Let’s be honest, the ads are awesome. About 99% of the time I watch T.V. ads make me want to bang my  head against a cement block repeatedly (a lethal combination of sexist and stupid), Super Bowl ads are different. First of all, they’re well put together because…well…

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Awareness, Feminism | Posted by Julie Z on 11/17/2009

Stop Stupak

health care

Usually, when I come down to the kitchen for a snack (also known as an excuse to take a study break) I  can tell what mail my Mom is sorting through by the look on her face. The annoyed-pursed-lips-eye-roll is usually elicited by a Home and Garden magazine of some type (Martha Stewart is defiantly not listed amongst my Mom’s personal heroes). Glazed over, resigned boredom  can usually be attributed to a water or electricity bill. But the truly depressed, pissed off face of injustice can only be caused by one thing.

My family has struggled with the issue of health care ever since I can remember. Because of a pre-existing condition my Mom has and the fact that my Dad is independently employed, the business of staying healthy has…

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Feminism | Posted by Julie Z on 11/3/2009

Billboard of aborted fetuses outside Phoenix high school

the bus-bilboard that drove around a Phoenix high school

A few weeks ago, this 22-foot billboard truck, showing a first trimester aborted fetus, circled a Phoenix area high school. The billboards were sponsored by The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) [Warning: Graphic Site], who chose Camelback High School because of their “innovative and proactive ’school choice’ campaign.”

The Regional Director for CBR, John Walsh, defended his actions, saying, “High school students are sexually active and often resort to having an abortion in order to escape from the unintended consequences of their promiscuity. They need to be educated about what abortion looks like before they commit to such a course of action.”

I’m sorry…this is education? There is nothing educational about this billboard. And insinuating that an abortion is the easy way out? Yes, we all…

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Awareness | Posted by Sheridan T on 10/28/2009

Speaking Out Against CPC’s

CPC's

The Feminist Majority Campus Team has declared the week of Halloween (October 25-31) The CPC Week of Action, aimed at exposing Crisis Pregnancy Centers for what they really are: Pro-life organizations preying on vulnerable women and feeding them fear and guilt when it comes to abortion.

Seriously, these organizations will do anything.

Starting in kindergarten, and continuing on through middle school, I went to a catholic school. In front of our school was always a sign for one of these centers, with a picture of the Virgin Mary and the promise of someone who will “really listen to you.” It turns out this center is run by my local Catholic Pro-Life Organization, a group that holds candle vigils outside Planned Parenthoods and who try to say abortion will give you breast cancer…

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Feminism | Posted by Steph on 10/7/2009

Giant, Pro-Choice Mountains

education, scholarship, the works

So, I was in Law class today, which is taught by an awesome teacher who I really like. And she notified everyone that she’d received mail info of a grant available only to Law 11 or 12 students in BC, the
info sheet for which she handed out.

Now, I’m pretty big on scholarships. They’re handy! That said, I read the information and rules page – fairly straightforward – good english, double-spaced, legible, don’t submit more than one essay. But then I turned the page: here’s what I saw (emphasis mine).

The competition is open to grade 11 or 12 BC secondary school students, and is designed to encourage students to recognize the dignity of every human life.

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ESSAY TOPICS (600-700 WORDS): CHOOSE ONE.

Topic 1. In recent years student societies in a number of Canadian
colleges and universities have…

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Feminism | Posted by Jessica on 07/17/2009

I Am Pro-Choice

I am pro-choice.

“Pro-choice describes the political and ethical view that a woman should have complete control over her fertility (and the choice to continue or terminate a pregnancy).”

That being said, I do not know if I, personally, would ever be able to recieve an abortion.

While growing up, I watched my mother suffer miscarriage after miscarriage, having had six pregnancies and only three children to show for them. Do not get me wrong: my mother considers my siblings and I each a blessing to her. I am the eldest, her first pregnancy and her first born. After me, my mother concieved again, only to miscarry. My mother concieved and gave birth to my sister when I was almost three. Between my sister and my brother, my mother suffered two more miscarriages,…

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