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4 months ago    |   Tags: PREACH IT POTUS!!! women abortion 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade 40 years women's rights women's health feminism   |   Notes: 2883

"On the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we reaffirm its historic commitment to protect the health and reproductive freedom of women across this country and stand by its guiding principle: that government should not intrude on our most private family matters, and women should be able to make their own choices about their bodies and their health care. Today and every day, my Administration continues our efforts to reduce unintended pregnancies, support maternal and child health, and minimize the need for abortion. On this anniversary, we recommit ourselves to supporting women and families in the choices they make and redouble our efforts to promote safe and healthy communities."

- President Obama on the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (via barackobama)
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4 months ago    |   Tags: women abortion 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade 40 years women's rights women's health feminism   |   Notes: 131
nprfreshair: Journalist Carolyn Jones, who has written about her personal experience with the Texas sonogram law for The Texas Observer, talks with Terry Gross about whether a state-required script detailing the abortion procedure impacted her decision to have an abortion: It had no impact on my decision to go ahead with the abortion. None, whatsoever. It was a private choice I’d made and I was going to stick with that private choice no matter the people who tried to interfere with me. In terms of my broader frame of mind, it did make me feel very angry — and I still do, I still feel very angry — that someone who had absolutely no say in, you know, my personal decisions could still be there at that moment. The darkest, the darkest day of my life was the day that I found out that information and had to make that decision. That someone could invade upon that — a politician who has absolutely no jurisdiction over my private life, that they could invade upon that and so reduce my dignity — I do feel that that’s an incredible injustice and I still do.”

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Journalist Carolyn Jones, who has written about her personal experience with the Texas sonogram law for The Texas Observer, talks with Terry Gross about whether a state-required script detailing the abortion procedure impacted her decision to have an abortion:

It had no impact on my decision to go ahead with the abortion. None, whatsoever. It was a private choice I’d made and I was going to stick with that private choice no matter the people who tried to interfere with me. In terms of my broader frame of mind, it did make me feel very angry — and I still do, I still feel very angry — that someone who had absolutely no say in, you know, my personal decisions could still be there at that moment. The darkest, the darkest day of my life was the day that I found out that information and had to make that decision. That someone could invade upon that — a politician who has absolutely no jurisdiction over my private life, that they could invade upon that and so reduce my dignity — I do feel that that’s an incredible injustice and I still do.”

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4 months ago    |   Tags: women abortion 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade 40 years women's rights women's health feminism Sarah Weddington University of Texas   |   Notes: 915

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sarafeminist:

Dear Sarah, I love you.

BAMF

Amen.

I have had the distinct pleasure of meeting this amazing woman and hearing her speak. She is amazing!  

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4 months ago    |   Tags: women abortion 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade 40 years women's rights women's health feminism   |   Notes: 377

Forty years later…

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4 months ago    |   Tags: women abortion 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade 40 years women's rights women's health feminism   |   Notes: 6933
plannedparenthood: Forty years ago, on January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing abortion.

plannedparenthood:

Forty years ago, on January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing abortion.

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4 months ago    |   Tags: women abortion 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade 40 years women's rights women's health feminism   |   Notes: 156

"This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment’s concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment’s reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy."

- Justice Harry Blackmun delivered the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade on January 22, 1973. (via sonicbloom11)

A major decision hits a major anniversary. For four decades, this issue has become one of the country’s major social wedge issues — and Roe v. Wade was decision that proved the splinter. (via shortformblog)

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4 months ago    |   Tags: women abortion 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade 40 years women's rights women's health feminism   |   Notes: 1032

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“I am so sorry,” the young woman said with compassion, and nudged the tissues closer. Then, after a moment’s pause, she told me reluctantly about the new Texas sonogram law that had just come into effect. I’d already heard about it. The law passed last spring but had been suppressed by legal injunction until two weeks earlier.

My counselor said that the law required me to have another ultrasound that day, and that I was legally obligated to hear a doctor describe my baby. I’d then have to wait 24 hours before coming back for the procedure. She said that I could either see the sonogram or listen to the baby’s heartbeat, adding weakly that this choice was mine.

“I don’t want to have to do this at all,” I told her. “I’m doing this to prevent my baby’s suffering. I don’t want another sonogram when I’ve already had two today. I don’t want to hear a description of the life I’m about to end. Please,” I said, “I can’t take any more pain.” I confess that I don’t know why I said that. I knew it was fait accompli. The counselor could no more change the government requirement than I could. Yet here was a superfluous layer of torment piled upon an already horrific day, and I wanted this woman to know it.

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- “We Have No Choice: One Woman’s Ordeal with Texas’ New Sonogram Law” by Carolyn Jones in The Texas Observer. Today marks the 40th anniversary of Roe V. Wade. Jones will be on the show today to talk about her experience and the series of articles she wrote for the Observer about the changing landscape of women’s health and family planning regulation. (via nprfreshair)
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4 months ago    |   Tags: women maternity leave US sucks at anything women's health related   |   Notes: 2
liveawesomely: Interesting graphic about Maternity Leave LOVE when this graph pops up on my dash - even if it is depressing.

liveawesomely:

Interesting graphic about Maternity Leave

LOVE when this graph pops up on my dash - even if it is depressing.

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4 months ago    |   Tags: Miss Representation women women in media slut birth control women's health media 2012   |   Notes: 3

Miss Representation

liveawesomely:

definitely worth checking out! 

Tthe way women were being discussed in 2012!! OUCH!

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5 months ago    |   Tags: STEM women in STEM science technology engineering mathematics women girls toys higher education   |   Notes: 29

THIS. THIS is how you begin to get girls/women to become interested in STEM related education! THIS is how you start their understanding of these concepts. THIS is how you get them comfortable with their own skills so that one day as a teacher (of any gender) starts to teach them less in favor of the boys/men, they can show their own skills! 

(STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)

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