Sorry for the long delay in updating this here blog of ours! Lately I feel like I am three days behind at living my own life. Laundry is piling up, magazines are unread, and I can't seem to get enough sleep.
This video features Senator Tom Coburn at the confirmation hearings of Sonya Sotomayor, making a blatantly false statement about abortion in the US versus abortion in the rest of the world.
Follow this link to the actual facts about abortion in the US and elsewhere. The World's Abortion Laws, from The Center for Reproductive Rights
As if this were not enough, the confirmation hearings of Sonya Sotomayor were also interrupted by anti-choice protesters. It is sort of hard to make out what they are saying, but check out the video if you are interested.
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This is a video montage of disparaging sexist/racist comments/clips about Sotomayor compiled by The Women's Media Center. Some of these are so incredibly awful that I can't believe it. See what you think.
More from us soon, including information on the incredibly harmful proposed merger between Landmark Medical Center in Woonsocket and the already financially unstable Caritas Christi HealthCare, a Massachusetts-based Catholic healthcare system that prefers to place religion above providing their patients with comprehensive healthcare choices. If this merger occurs, the effects on people of low-income status in Rhode Island will be widespread, as it is likely that Thundermist Health Center of Woonsocket will no longer be allowed to maintain contracts with Landmark for family planning and sterilization. Tubal ligation will no longer be an option for women choosing this hospital, even those patients who request one at the time of a C-section. Thundermist Health Center, a private non-profit community health center, is the second largest primary healthcare provider in Northern Rhode Island. This merger may also have an effect on STD/HIV testing availability, employee health insurance benefits, surgical referrals, etc.
As always, we are in need of volunteer clinic escorts at Women's Medical Center at 1725 Broad Street in Cranston, on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 7:00 am - 10:30 am or so. Please get in touch (prochoiceri@gmail.com) if you have some free time or if you need to fulfill your community service requirements!
-Robin
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