Morning Roundup: Arizona Seeks to Ban Race and Sex Selection
Arizona looks at banning race and sex selection abortions, despite the fact that it makes no sense, young women infected with HIV are more likely to become pregnant and have complications, hearings scheduled on the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act," and women are a separate species - an unexplainable one at that.
Arizona looks at banning race and sex selection abortions, despite the fact that it makes no sense, young women infected with HIV are more likely to become pregnant and have complications, hearings scheduled on the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” and women are a separate species – an unexplainable one at that.
- An Arizona lawmaker has proposed a requirement that women seeking an abortion verify that they are not doing so based on the race or sex of the fetus. A policy manager at Planned Parenthood said, “This idea that minority women are having abortions at higher rates than white women speaks more to rates of poverty, access to contraception and a lack of sex education,” she said. “This is not racial genocide for God’s sake; this is a real problem that we’re not addressing.” The article points out that the vast majority – 92% – of abortions are performed in the first trimester, a period when a woman very rarely knows the sex of the fetus. (Only if she had an amniocentesis, a procedure done if something appears to be wrong with the fetus, would she know the sex, and the earliest that procedure is performed is 11 weeks.)
- A study by Johns Hopkins shows that young women infected with HIV are more likely to become pregnant and have pregnancy complications than women who do not have the virus. The study also shows that
HIV-infected teens and young adults continue to have unsafe sex and that pregnancies place these already vulnerable young women and their fetuses in serious danger for complications.
The findings also “suggest that teens who were infected with HIV later in life may engage in different sexual behaviors than those infected at birth,” Dr. Kelly Gebo, an infectious disease specialist and the study’s senior investigator. - Despite his refusal to talk to the media about the redefinition of rape in Rep. Chris Smith’s abortion funding ban plan, House Speaker John Boehner is allowing that “priority” legislation to move forward with hearings in the House Judiciary Committee scheduled for next Tuesday, February 8.
- The Washington, DC, affiliate of NBC news has an article posted on their website called “Females, the Unexplainable Species,” with a list of random somewhat-health-related facts below. Some examples are, “Women are twice as likely as men to go blind. Women love going to restrooms in groups. Rumor is, they tell secrets and gossip while applying lipstick. The breasts of females of the human species are proportionately bigger than those of female mammals.” Uh, ok. What is it about those “facts” that makes women “unexplainable?” And a species? I’m pretty sure that most animals have males and females – and they are not counted as separate species.
Feb 2
- Abortion Is Making Me Crazy – Philadelphia Magazine (blog)
- Hispanic Women Have Highest Rate of Cervical Cancer – Hispanically Speaking News
- Planned Parenthood victim of human trafficking video hoax – Examiner.com
- Achieving MDGs with family planning – Nation Online
- Females, The Unexplainable Species – NBC Washington
- Alex Whitworth: Abortion an issue of family planning – Madison.com
- Abortion; a law for the 21st century – The Bostwana Gazette
- Poindexter votes for controversial abortion legislation – Franklin News Post
- Lawsuit pending over Montgomery County’s restrictions on pregnancy centers – The Gazette
- Morning-After Pill May Raises Chances of STDs – ShortNews.com
- State must have oversight for abortion clinics – The News Journal
- John Boehner’s push to redefine rape – Salon
- Women ‘hungry’ for truth about abortion – TheRecord.com.au
- North Dakota Legislature: Measure would set statewide sex ed standard – In-Forum
- YOUR VIEW: Will MassEquality support Brown in 2012? – SouthCoastToday.com
Feb 1
- The LGBT struggle in Lebanon – Socialist Worker Online
- Now, delivering babies in public health facilities to be free – Indian Express
- Frances Woodke Charged With Prostitution With Knowledge Of AIDS – Huffington Post
- End of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is only a beginning – City Times
- Health care providers look for new ways to serve diverse LGBT community – OregonLive.com
- How the other half suffers – NEXT
- Anti-abortion group releases Planned Parenthood sting video – Washington Post
- Who Is Lila Rose? – Media Matters for America
- Senate panel approves HIV prostitution bill – Salt Lake Tribune
- Teen pregnancy rate at record low in California – Los Angeles Times
- PORTRAITS OF THE COURT After Birth Control Leads to Blood Clots, Jury Finds … – Brooklyn Daily Eagle
- Teens with HIV at high risk for pregnancy, complications – R & D Magazine
- ‘We’ll combat mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS’ – Nigerian Tribune
- Questions raised over abstinence sex education bill – Bismarck Tribune
- Group releases video in campaign against Planned Parenthood – Reuters
- Wilmington clinic’s ties to accused Philly doctor leads to suspension – Dover Post
- Florida rescued from AIDS drug crisis – for now – Sun-Sentinel
- House Committee Schedules Hearing on Bill, Boehner Refuses to Discuss – Common Dreams (press release)
- Conservatives and the Abortion Debate: A strategy for winning in 2012? – DC Spotlight
- Abortion Rights Activists Decry House Bill They Say Attempts to Redefine Rape – CBS News
- HIV Linked to Higher Pregnancy Rate in Young Women – U.S. News & World Report
- Man Pleads Guilty to Killing Pregnant Woman Refusing Abortion – LifeNews.com
- Maternal Stroke History Tied to MI Risk in Women – MedPage Today
- GOP lawmaker: Ban abortions sought because of race or sex – TucsonSentinel.com
- Lila Rose: 5 Facts on the Woman Behind the Planned Parenthood Hoax [VIDEOS] – AOL News
- Bill would let Mass. taxpayers opt out on abortion – Boston Herald
- Healthy mom, healthy baby: Local mom and maternal health advocate hopes to … – Garner News
- Healthy mom, healthy baby: Local mom and maternal health advocate hopes to … – Garner News
- Manila panel clears family planning bill – Gulf Today
- UCC Coalition urges prayer and advocacy in response to murdered Ugandan activist – Worldwide Faith News (press release)
- The Non-Problem of False Rape Claims for Medicaid Abortions – TIME (blog)
- Barbara Bush endorses gay marriage and marriage equality in NY – Pics – Examiner.com (blog)
- Customs arrests man with 14000 abortion pills – Daily News & Analysis
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court to review parental consent law after challenge – Lifesite
- Study Examines Incident Hepatitis C Infection in HIV-Infected Men – Infection Control Today
- Teen Sex 3.0 – Mpls.St.Paul Magazine
- Infant bodies raise abortion questions – The Citizen Daily
- McDowell to speak frankly about sex education – My West Texas
- Conservatives Trot Out the Fake Pimp Routine Against Planned Parenthood – Gawker
- Many use abortion as contraception, pro-life activists say – Primedia Broadcasting – Eyewitness News
- Increase in malaria cases in Kwahu South District – Ghana News Agency
- Denial and the nation’s AIDS response, by Susan MacNeil – The Keene Sentinel
- Pro-life, pro-choice, pro-truth – PolitiFact
- Illinois Governor Signs Civil Unions Act Into Law – Passport Magazine (blog)
- “Cervical screening saved my life” says cancer survivor Vicki – isleofman.com
- Florida ‘Choose Life’ license plate law rewrite draws concern from pregnancy … – The American Independent
- Emily’s Post: Republicans seek to redefine rape to block abortion access – Isthmus Daily Page
- Rep. Wasserman Schultz: Bill Redefining Rape To Prevent Abortions Is ‘A … – Think Progress
- The Truth About Blacks and Abortion – Huffington Post (blog)
- Beating cervical cancer: A survivor’s story – KKCO-TV
- Undercover Video Shows Planned Parenthood Assisting with Underage Sex Trafficking – Human Events
- Palace strengthens pro-choice policy – BusinessWorld Online
- TEXAS FAITH: What’s the role of religious faith when there are no good choices? – Dallas Morning News (blog)
- Women of Haiti in the spotlight of new show – reddeeradvocate.com
- Bill Proposes doctors to perform an ultrasound before an abortion – KULR-TV
- The Second Leading Cause of Death in Young Women – Huffington Post (blog)