Category Archives: Choice

FDA approves Plan B for OTC sales

By The Midwife | Published: August 24, 2006

This just arrived in my inbox, moments ago. I can’t find a single news story written about this yet, in any of the papers. Is it really possible for a blog to beat the newspapers when it comes to a story? Neato! We did it! At 9:20 a.m. today, the FDA approved over-the-counter access to [...]

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“The last-morning-ever pill”

By The Midwife | Published: May 11, 2006

Always good for a laugh (or, at the very least, a derisive snort), leave it to The Onion to break the latest news of the new anti-abortion pill that terminates the mother, but leaves the fetus alive.

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Contra-contraception

By The Midwife | Published: May 11, 2006

Better late than never: check out this article from the New York Times magazine last weekend, which featured a long, in-depth look at the growing anti-contraception movement in America. A few highlights includes a detailed description of the entire Plan B over-the-counter approval-process debacle which happened last year, culminating in the resignation of Susan Woods, [...]

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Homebirth prosecution

By The Midwife | Published: April 12, 2006

The New York Times has been turning out a lot of articles on birth, pregnancy and midwifery, lately—seems like there’s been at least one major article a month for a few months now. Here’s the latest one, from last week, which centers around the prosecution of Jennifer Williams, a CPM practicing homebirth in Indiana. Because [...]

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The anti-birth control/anti-abortion band wagon

By The Midwife | Published: March 23, 2006

Seems like ever since the FDA announced that two more women have died after taking RU-486, one of the drugs used during a medical abortion, the abortion debate has reached a new pitch as pro-lifers have eagerly added this news to their arsenal and pro-choicers have feverishly girded themselves for pitched battle. Naturally, this has [...]

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The morality of forced motherhood?

By The Midwife | Published: February 26, 2006

Wow, just read a brutally blunt article over at the Tennessee Guerilla Women website that really lays into the morality of forcing women to have unwanted babies in a society that is anti-family, anti-health and anti-life (and no, not life as in pro-life, but anti-living well and healthy, on every level: physical, emotional, spiritual etc.). [...]

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South Dakota set to ban abortions

By The Midwife | Published: February 23, 2006

This didn’t take long at all.

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A sad day for choice

By The Midwife | Published: January 31, 2006

It seems too perfectly poignant that Coretta Scott King should die the same day that Judge Samuel A. Alito is confirmed to the Supreme Court by a vote of 58-42. In Coretta Scott King’s death, we see the end of an era of moving towards increased freedom and civil liberties, and now, with Alito on [...]

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Pharmacists suspended in IL

By The Midwife | Published: December 12, 2005

Four pharmacists were suspended in Illinois for refusing to fill prescriptions for emergency contraceptive (Plan B). ABC has the full article here.

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RU-486 under attack

By The Midwife | Published: November 25, 2005

RU-486 (Mifeprex), the pill used to induce chemical abortions in early 1st trimester pregnancies, has come under fire recently because of the deaths of 4 women in California who died of a rare bacteria infection (Clostridium Sordelli) shortly after taking RU-486. The NY times has the full article. Wow. Very disturbing. And now it’s just [...]

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