Utah legislators, not doctors, are making medical decisions for abortion providers and their patients. A new Utah law will go into effect this month that will force doctors to over-anesthetize women seeking abortions at 20 weeks or later – putting patients at risk for potential harm. The “Protecting Unborn Children Amendment” is based on the […]
Actress Amy Brenneman had an abortion when she was 21. Thirty years later, she is extremely disappointed with the negative stigma that still exists surrounding a woman’s right to choose. She appeared on HuffPost Live to discuss her role in the HBO series “The Leftovers” and told host Alyona Minkovski that it isn’t acceptable for abortion […]
The Senate vote to defund Planned Parenthood (PP) was defeated on Monday. The vote followed weeks of controversy surrounding PP’s process of fetal tissue donation – which anti-abortion extremists call “selling aborted baby parts.” A crusade to defund PP gained traction in 2011, when Tea Party politicians took office, but as the 2016 Democratic presidential […]