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On April 1st, Lucy Flores, a representative in the Nevada state assembly, went public with a personal story during hearings on revamping Nevada's sex education laws to provide age appropriate, full sex education and overturning Nevada's "abstinence only" sex education mandate. She had an abortion at the age of 16. Within a week of that public ( Read more... )

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When I posted An Open Letter, it made the rounds on the internet. (I posted it at more than one blog and site.)
It created a great deal of conversation and in the course of that discussion I learned a great deal.
I was introduced to a book, When Abortion Was A Crime: Women, Medicine and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, by Leslie J. Reagan, ( Read more... )

If the state is going to outlaw abortion then they need to just outlaw it, get it over with and stop dancing around it. But if they do, they need to realize something. Roe wasn't the start of abortion, it was the end of women dying from it ( Read more... )

Here's a definition of "mansplaining ( Read more... )

First I would recommend that you read up on Brownback's background at his Wikipedia article ( Read more... )

A Heartbeat Does Not Equal “Life ( Read more... )

I recently read reports that Tim Tebow’s mother was doing a tour, giving speeches and support to anti-abortion groups. Given that my own experience is very similar to hers, I decided I needed to tell my side of the story ( Read more... )

In 1933 my father, then 12 years old, lost his 22 year old sister to an illegal abortion. It was the height of the Depression and her husband had been out of work for months, unable to support her and their two children. When he found out she was pregnant again, he told her to "get rid of it" or he was abandoning the family. She took him at his ( Read more... )