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05/31/2023

On May 31, 2009, Dr. George Tiller, an
activist for abortion rights, was acting as an usher during Sunday morning service at his church in Wichita when he was fatally shot in the head by an anti-abortion extremist.
"Trust women," he used to remark. "I'm a woman-educated physician," was another of his phrases. His favorite mantra was "attitude is everything".
"If you look at the history of abortion in the U.S. before Roe v. Wade, and what's going on now, one thing that is clear, as with everything else in the U.S., class and race plays a massive part. People with resources will get to where they need to go. BIPOC will be the ones that suffer."

There are so many reasons people decide that pregnancy is not for them. It's so personal. Quality healthcare should be accessible for everyone and not just those with money.

THANK YOU DR. TILLER FOR TRUSTING WOMEN. WE MISS YOU AND REMEMBER ALL THAT YOU HAVE DONE AND TAUGHT US. WE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE.
Racial Justice is Reproductive Justice.

05/26/2023

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05/25/2023

And if you are unfortunate to be trapped in a state where you thought you had rights when you born there, or took that job, or bought that property, and payed your taxes you would be wrong.


in these states, and watch your backs in the others. Gaining rights takes hundreds of years. Losing them takes one bone headed Supreme Court of the United States decision and of course, the former Republican MAGA president who is proud of creating this suffering, where an actual living babies introduction to this life is to suffocate for 99 minutes and die. That's today's Florida. That is the Ron DeSantis way, and the way of all of these state legislators.

Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
West Virginia
Wisconsin

05/21/2023

Make stupid laws, get inhumane prizes.

At 27 weeks the Dorbert's were told their fetus had Potters Syndrome and would not live much longer than 20 minutes after birth. The laws of the state denied an abortion due to the ridiculous lie that is the Florida fetal "heartbeat" law, a cut off at 15 weeks. This legislature and governor is currently lowering that to 6 weeks.

Deborah Dorbert was forced to carry the fetus, which they named Milo to term and watch him suffocate for almost 99 minutes.

Her father told the Washington Post:
"Rogell lingered at the funeral home after others left, staring at the urn that contained his 16th grandchild’s ashes and trying to reconcile his own misgivings about elective abortion with the months of suffering he watched his daughter and her family endure.

Now, he was haunted by the sound of Milo gasping for air and the sight of his body struggling to ward off a death that had been inevitable for three long months.

“To me it’s just pure torture,” Rogell said. “The law has created torture.”

To add insult to injury, because that's what inhumane, terrible laws always do.

"The mail brings reminders of the Dorberts’ new financial burdens, invoices for all the things they wish had never happened: $12,320 so far in medical costs — not including induction and delivery, $7,000 for Milo’s cremation and funeral, and $500 for the keepsakes in memory of their son.

The bills keep coming. Deborah estimates that Lee’s health insurance will pick up about half of the medical costs, some of which will be offset by a GoFundMe appeal that one of her sisters set up."

Milo Evan Dorbert, whose mother’s pregnancy tested the interpretation of Florida’s new abortion law, was born with a fatal abnormality. He lived 99 minutes.

05/20/2023

From Red Wine and Blue .

Read it. Weep for a few seconds and then stay mad and keep informed on who is being oppressed in your states and others. Criminalizing abortion in any state criminalizes Health care for those born with a uterus everywhere in the country.

The consequences of these cruel decisions spill over on all of us. It will just get worse. We know what happened last time, and that injustice and misery led to Roe v Wade. Now today in some states in the US, we can't access advances in medicine the did not exist 50 years ago. That's crazy.

Anti abortion state legislators, governors, judges and District Attorneys better check themselves, they were not elected by landslides.

Meanwhile real people are suffering unecessarily because of this extreme governmental overreach into our private lives.

05/18/2023

Happy Jewish Heritage Month! PPIL stands in solidarity with Jewish Americans against hate and anti-Semitism, and is committed to ensuring access to reproductive health care for the Jewish community. We honor all of our Jewish staff members, patients, volunteers, and supporters. Together, we can stand against bigotry and fight for bodily autonomy.

05/18/2023

"Avery Olson has a choice to make.

She could practice women’s health care as an OB-GYN in her home state of South Dakota, where it is illegal to perform abortions and where the exception to perform one to protect the life of the mother is unclear to some physicians, or she could practice in a nearby state, one where abortions are legal and she can practice to her full ability while still staying close to her family."

South Dakota is facing a shortage of OB-GYNs and is a leading state for maternity care deserts.

05/18/2023

One step forward in Michigan, two steps back in the Carolina's and they want to bring Virginia into their new theocracy .

It is hard to believe this is happening in our country.

I wonder what group the Republican body and brain police will come for next?

"In Michigan, one of the leading states in protecting abortion rights since Roe v. Wade was overturned, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation Wednesday that will prohibit companies from firing or otherwise retaliating against workers for having an abortion.

The legislation amends the state’s civil rights law, which had previously only outlawed employment discrimination if an abortion was to “save the life of the mother.” It will ensure that workers cannot be treated differently for receiving an abortion regardless of reasoning."

As more Southern states pass new restrictions on abortion, Virginia is poised to become an outlier in the region for its relatively permissive laws. That could set up Virginia as a destination for women seeking abortions and raise questions about providers’ capacity to meet demand. South Carolina ...