<![CDATA[Jezebel: Naral]]> http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: Naral]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/naral http://jezebel.com/tag/naral <![CDATA[Boehner's Staff Pals Around With Anti-Choice Terrorists]]> Randall Terry to abortion providers: "When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we'll try you, and we will execute you." And he just met with Speaker Boehner's senior staff. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5702269&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How Abortion Might Be Alaska's Dealbreaker]]> The Anchorage Daily News says the three-way Alaska Senate race is being defined by the abortion debate. But we thought the culture wars are over! Never mind, social issues might might work in Democrats' favor, so let's run with it. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5672510&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Graying Of The Abortion-Rights Crusade]]> According to Newsweek, the major abortion-rights groups are controlled by a "postmenopausal militia," activists in their fifties who vividly remember Roe V. Wade. So why aren't younger people stepping up? More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5520138&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[After Healthcare Vote, All Eyes Turn To Abortion]]> Abortion rights groups have taken differing stands on the healthcare bill, with NOW decrying it and Planned Parenthood optimistically looking forward to changes. But one thing's for sure: abortion is back in the spotlight. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5499839&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Women Exchange Sex For Cigs, File Rape Claim • Women Are Better Drivers Than Men]]> •  Two Tennessee women, who claimed that they had been raped on the night of the 27th by two men, came clean to police and admitted that they made it all up. What really happened: More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5459562&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ruth P. Smith Dies At 102]]> Ruth Proskauer Smith began her work on reproductive rights back in the 1940s, and helped to found the predecessor organization to NARAL. She was a staunch advocate for both the right to choose and the right to die. [NYT (image)] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5458200&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA["We Will Not Go Gently Into That Good Night"]]> That's NARAL's Nancy Keenan, appearing on MSNBC a few minutes ago. [NARAL] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5400562&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Website Claims To Have 68-Year History On Every Abortion-Having American Woman]]> A reader sent us a link to something called Abortiontracker.com, a site that claims to have compiled "a comprehensive list of every woman who has had an abortion procedure performed in the United States and Canada, dating back to 1940." To get access to this alleged database, you need to pay $799 for a seven day pass to the site or up to $16,999 for unlimited access to "full names, complete addresses, unlimited contact information, false names used during operation procedures, reasons listed for abortions, known STDs at (and since) time of abortion, [and the] name of person believed to be the father." More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5044939&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[If You Won't Vote For Barack, Would You Consider Voting For Michelle?]]> A lot of people would like to believe that the world — and politics — is a fairly rational place outside of the crazies. Crazy is, though, a definitional problem — by definition, crazy is defined as "outside the norm." So what is the norm? How many non-normals can there be until "crazy" is its own norm? Is irrationality the norm and — if it is — then is irrationality rational and rationality irrational these days? These are the questions that run through my mind when I read articles like this one on Politico which says "About one in five voters who supported Clinton in the Democratic primaries tell pollsters that they are not voting for Obama." More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5032980&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Bush Administration Memo Tries To Define Birth Control As Abortion]]> There are 188 days left in the Bush administration, and it is becoming painfully clear that if George W. cannot end the war, or boost the economy, he'll sure as hell make it his mission to chip away at Roe vs. Wade. As Reuters reports, a leaked Department Of Health and Human Services memo describes a plan to cut off federal funds to states, hospitals and clinics that discriminate against employees who refuse to offer birth control or abortions on religious or moral grounds. As if that weren't bad enough, the proposal redefines all birth control as abortion. According to Reuters, in the memo, the HHS draft "proposes to define abortion as 'any of the various procedures — including the prescription and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action — that results in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation." More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5025756&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[NARAL's Endorsement Of Obama Is Neither Disrespectful Nor Disloyal]]> Here's a reminder of what the pro-choice movement is supposed to be fighting: the anti-choice movement. I put this picture up in case you, like a lot of women today, have forgotten that these people are the enemy, and John McCain is their candidate. Because from all the ugly backlash against NARAL Pro-Choice America's endorsement of Barack Obama yesterday, it seems like a lot of Clinton supporters have decided the enemy is Obama/NARAL and not people that are, you know, actually actively fighting to deny women the right to choose. But, hey, why bother tearing down the anti-choice movement, their leaders and the politicians that pander to them when we can just tear other pro-choice Democrats and organizations down? No one undermines women like other women, right? More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=391027&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Florida Kittens Save Lives • NARAL Endorses Obama]]> Two kittens meowed so loudly when a Jacksonville, FL building was on fire that they woke up one resident who was able to help everyone get out before the flames gutted the building. • Naral Pro-Choice America has endorsed Barack Obama. • That has pissed off some other pro-choice peeps, like EMILY's List prez Ellen R. Malcolm, who calls the endorsement "...tremendously disrespectful to Sen. Clinton." • A new study has found that chocolate consumption during pregnancy may lower the risk of preeclampsia. • Has the demise of "you" in text messaging has been greatly exaggerated? A study found that "you" was used over "u" 9 times out of 10. • Some dude in Sweden turned his girlfriend's cell phone into a bugging device: He taped it to the headboard of her bed and when he called her he could hear what was being said in the room. • Um, beer-flavored, non-alcoholic beer for dogs. Why? • Don't go around saying people don't read books anymore; we're in a "second golden age" for teen fiction. • An interesting story about sperm competition contains this info: "Men — even those with vanishingly low sperm counts — ejaculate more healthy sperm if they masturbate while watching sexual videos than if they do it while staring at the ceiling." • More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=390562&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Conservative British MP Calls America "The Abortion Capital Of The World"]]> To quell the rising rate of abortion in Great Britain, Tory MP Nadine Dorries has begun a campaign to reduce the limit for late-term abortions from 24 weeks to 20 weeks. Dorries' snappy marketing campaign to push this piece of legislation is called "20 Reasons for 20 Weeks." The right-wing Daily Mail published all 20, and most of Dorries' tactics include the display of the sad-teeny-feet of babies born before 24 weeks. Zoe Williams of the Guardian pokes holes in these 20 Reasons, calling them "so flawed, often so illogical, so savagely misogynistic and so repetitive." Here's just one example of Dorries' and the DM's tenuous handle on the truth: they say that "two-thirds of GPs support a reduction in the time limit," but Williams points out that 77% of the British Medical Association voted to keep the limit as is. Dorries argues that "If we don't [lower the time limit for abortion] there is no question that we will overtake America in the next couple of years, making us the abortion capital of the world." But is America really the abortion capital of the world? More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=388052&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ NARAL is selling some pretty awesome t-shirts...]]> NARAL is selling some pretty awesome t-shirts that we're pretty sure we all need, stat. Because who amongst us is not a "Rebellious Jezebel"? [Feministe] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=351783&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ever Sent A Text Message You Wished You Could Abort?]]> So there's been some big hoo-hah about the abortion rights crowd sending out mass text messages to supporters because our tender eyes are too impressionable not to go out and get an abortion every time we're reminded it's still legal. Which made us think: how many ill-advised text messages have you sent only to wake up pining for the text message equivalent to Plan B? Like for example, this is the actual text of an actual text message I sent early this morning. To an actual person!
"fear dumbass, you needn't fare seventeen, and who the fuck cares. like you"
What, were they spiking the beverages with SENILITY? Or did predictive text prevent me from sounding even more profound? Okay, so: because not every state is as progressive as Virginia, where people are actually getting fined for sending annoying texts, I hereby deem the space "after the jump" your graveyard for your best specimens of drunk text. With a very special set from a certain ladyfriend of ours on Capitol Hill. More »
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