Pro-choice charities

[honest_whisper]

I am looking for a charity supporting the education and health of women that takes a pro-choice stance. I would dearly love to support 'Women on the Waves' but as I will be fund-raising with quite a varied group, I know it would be way too controversial for some to accept and sadly, more likely to get us thrown out than given donations.

Reproductive

Comments

[likeawoman]

how about Amnesty International

[honest_whisper]

Good idea, its the sort of charity nobody wants to disapprove of.

[likeawoman]

and they've stood fast in their pro-choice stance

[pocochina]

Girls Inc (choice-y goodness here)

[honest_whisper]

I really like it but I think I'd have to wait for another time to support it. Sadly I don't think we'd get much support (carol-singing in a fairly conservative area, in the past we've had the existence/purpose of http://www.smiletrain.org questioned)

[pull_rank]

Save the Children does some great, generally non-controversial work that includes reproductive health. They are very pro-choice because they see the connection between maternal and child health

[honest_whisper]

Good idea, their policies seem excellent and people tend to like child related charities at Christmas.

[syncopatedlife]

I don't know how mellow you're looking for, but Unicef is a big supporter of family planning yet they neither provide abortions nor distribute contraceptives. They're on Bush's shit list because they won't support abstinence-only sex education, but they're a far cry from planned parenthood.

[honest_whisper]

I don't mind mellow, just so long as its not abstinence only and although I would like to
support Marie Stopes or equivalent, I know that some of the people I'll be singing with are "pro-life" (though not madly so) therefore my suggestions need some degree of subtlety.

I'm amused to read this on the charity bulletin for the 'Society for the protection of unborn children':

"A study by Dr Doug Sylva entitled “The United Nations Children’s Fund: Women or Children First?” (Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute,
2003) reports and analyses the gradual change in UNICEF from being a child survival agency to promoting “radical feminism” and abortion." - sounds good to me

[likeawoman]

yeah UNICEF is a good suggestion that, like Amnesty International, will only rile the most staunch, tapped in anti-choicers. plus its even less controversial.

[wickey29]

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