Forced Ultrasound Bill Proposed in Tennessee
More on this later, but for now read Betsy Phillips at Pith.
State Sen. Jim Tracy Files an Ultrasound Before Abortion Bill
One wonders why Tracy thinks women go to have abortions if we don’t know we’re pregnant. But this is clearly just designed to be an egregious pain in the ass of women who want to have an abortion. Tracy and the state just want to make sure we know how stupid they think we are, and how little they think of us. They also want skirt the disastrously unpopular transvaginal ultrasound legislation that caused so many headaches for Republicans when many states tried to pass it last year.
Filed un...
Source: Women's Health News - February 5, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Access, Rights, & Choice forced ultrasound Jim Tracy Tennessee Source Type: blogs
Sunday News Round-Up – New Whovian Edition
An update on the Tennessee Democratic Party (#TNDP) chair election – Roy Herron was elected, 39-27. I’m personally already sick of the explanation that if we want to “win” in Tennessee, we need to accept being “pro-life, anti-gay, and pro-gun.” Winning on those terms doesn’t sound like winning at all to, say, women, and gay people, and the folks who love them. That sounds like keeping people in power just for the sake of it, and it’s disgusting.
Some recent posts over at Our Bodies Our Blog:
Carol Sakala with a guest item on maternity care and medicolegal liability: Fixing...
Source: Women's Health News - January 27, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Access, Rights, & Choice Ethics Events & Observances Government Miscellaneous Sex & Sex Education ACNM baby got back (is still a terrible song) Catholic hospitals copyright Diane Black Doctor Who fanfiction fetal perso Source Type: blogs
The Tennessee Democratic Party Does Not Need a Republican-Lite Leader
This Saturday, the Tennessee Democratic Party’s (TNDP) Executive Committee will vote on a new party Chair. There are only two men left in the running, former State Senator Roy Herron and current party Treasurer Dave Garrison.
Herron claims to have it locked up, but I would encourage members of the Executive Committee to give Garrison another look. Choosing Herron as leader can only increase my dislike of the TNDP, and is unlikely to actually move forward progressive values in Tennessee.
A look at Roy Herron’s voting record – he voted:
For a bill requiring hospital admitting privileges for abortion prov...
Source: Women's Health News - January 25, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Government Dave Garrison I seriously cannot take more running to the right from Tennessee Democrats party chair Roy Herron TNDP Source Type: blogs
Nurse-Midwives Release Statement in Support of Safe, Competent Care for Transgender Individuals
The American College of Nurse-Midwives released a Position Statement on Transgender/Transsexual/Gender Variant Health Care.
The main bits:
The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) supports efforts to provide transgender, transsexual, and gender variant individuals with access to safe, comprehensive, culturally competent health care and therefore endorses the 2011 World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care.
It is the position of ACNM that midwives
Exhibit respect for patients with nonconforming gender identities and do not pathologize differences in ge...
Source: Women's Health News - January 23, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Access, Rights, & Choice Ethics ACNM non-discrimination nurse-midwives nursing education transgender transgender health Source Type: blogs
Blog for Choice 2013 – I Don’t Need Feelings, I Need Justice
Tuesday January 22 marks the 40th anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision, as well as being Blog for Choice Day. This year’s theme for Blog for Choice is for writers to share their personal stories of why they’re pro-choice.
I’m not feeling it.
I’m not big on the personal stories, although I know that’s contrary to the current social media and campaigning-in-general gospel. There’s a reason my mom jokingly calls me Sheldor from time to time. My heartstrings don’t really get tugged like that, and I don’t really think the bodily autonomy of half the population should be up to ...
Source: Women's Health News - January 22, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Access, Rights, & Choice Events & Observances blog for choice reproductive justice reproductive rights Source Type: blogs
In Tennessee, Marsha Blackburn Doesn’t Speak for Me
Well, partly, that’s because she’s not my Representative. She does come from my home state of Tennessee, though, and has reintroduced a federal bill – the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act – to strip Title X family planning funding from any clinic that also provides abortions. Effectively, that’s more of the same “defund Planned Parenthood!” nonsense Republicans have been attempting for the past several years.
Here’s the thing: anti-abortion politicians and groups have been spreading the idea for years that there is some problem with Planned Parenthood getting Title X...
Source: Women's Health News - January 21, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Access, Rights, & Choice Adolescent Health Contraception Government HIV/AIDS Pregnancy Sex & Sex Education Diane Black family planning Marsha Blackburn Planned Parenthood Tennessee Title X Source Type: blogs
Sunday News Round-Up – 40 Years of Roe Edition
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. That means that Blog for Choice Day 2013 is coming up on Tuesday, this year with the theme of having writers share their own personal stories of why they’re pro-choice.
I expect to put a post up in observance, and I also have something on Marsha Blackburn and Republican attempts to defund Planned Parenthood for tomorrow. Today’s Sunday News Round-Up theme will also be abortion.
Here’s the most recent abortion surveillance data from the CDC, using 2009 data. True facts: 60% of women who have abortions are already mothers.
More on who has ...
Source: Women's Health News - January 20, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Access, Rights, & Choice Events & Observances Government News Round-Ups blog for choice language Roe Source Type: blogs
OH HAI Sunday News Round-Up: New Year’s Resolutions Edition
Judgy cats will overseeing postingUnmentionable personal things of late have kept me from really wanting to blog more than I have been. I can’t really describe the details here, but suffice it to say, it’s one of those things that sort of takes up your whole brainspace and doesn’t leave much emotional energy leftover for doing anything else – one of those things that can cause you to spin down everything you *like* doing because you’re busy dealing with *the other thing.*
Ugh. So, happy new year! One of my goals for the new year is to spin those likable things back up, and focus on arranging t...
Source: Women's Health News - January 6, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Miscellaneous Events & Observances Laws, Legislation, & Courts News Round-Ups Access, Rights, & Choice Global Issues Abortion Abuse, Rape, & Safety Government Libraryland Mental Health Women's Health purity books Congress cul Source Type: blogs
