Normalizing Abortion Ignores Women’s Needs
(by Bonnie Lander Johnson, Guardian.co.uk, 05/26/10)
“As an adult woman, I don’t want a society that treats me with kid gloves: one that offers services that protect me from the unwanted consequences of my actions but that does not properly instill in me an understanding that my actions matter.”
Abortion and Relationships, What happens?
(AIRVSC, Winter 2010)
The association between elective abortion and psychological stress in women has been established in numerous studies. Considerably less research has investigated the relationship between induced abortion and stress in the male partners of women who abort.
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ABORTION IN NEW UNC STUDENT HEALTH PLAN
Who is really covering the costs?
From the press: Students Can Reject Abortion Coverage
(by Eric Ferreri, Newsobserver.com, 08/13/10)
Public university students enrolled in a new UNC system health insurance plan can opt out of abortion coverage.
Though the plan covers the procedure, UNC system officials said Thursday that it can be removed from student plans on request. The decision followed complaints from followers of a national anti-abortion organization that didn’t want students forced to fund them.
“No student will be required to have this coverage as part of their health care plan, nor will they be paying for anybody else,” UNC President Erskine Bowles said Thursday.
Students who choose not to have the abortion coverage won’t save any money.
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From the web: ‘Choose Life’ License Plate Supporters Call for Action by Legislative Leaders
(by L.A. Williams, CAL, 05/26/10)
RALEIGH — The Choose Life license plate: It’s about encouraging people to do the right thing; it’s about giving hope and help to hundreds facing unplanned pregnancies; it’s about free speech, a right guaranteed by our Constitution but denied by a handful of state legislators; and it’s about time the specialty plate became a reality in North Carolina.
Visitors since July, 2010. Thank you!
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Congressman Appeals to America at 2010 March for Life: “Stay Awake”
(Washington, D.C., 01/22/10)
Nebraska law to help women pressured to have an abortion and to screen for
post-abortion problems faces injunction and court challenge.
From the press: Planned Parenthood Sues Over Nebraska Abortion Law
(by Margery A. Beck, Associated Press, 06/28/10)
“Supporters of the screening law say it could help prevent medical problems after the abortion is performed and would put the pre-abortion reviews in line with those used in other medical procedures. Doctors would have to tell patients if they had any risk factors indicating they could have mental or physical problems after an abortion, but could still perform it in those cases.
The new law says if a screening was not done or was performed inadequately, a woman who had mental or physical problems afterward could file a civil suit. Doctors would neither face criminal charges nor lose their medical licenses.”
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