NARAL Pro-Choice America
What does it mean to be Pro-Choice? It means defending the rights of women to prevent unintended pregnancy with education and birth control, to choose legal abortion, and to access the pre-natal care they need to have healthy children.
 
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NARAL Pro-Choice America Announcing the winners of our Hall of Fame and Shame contest (http://bit.ly/7d10pI). Fame: You picked Dr. LeRoy Carhart for his steadfast commitment to women's health. Shame: You picked Rep. Bart Stupak and Sen. Ben Nelson for using the health-reform effort to attack choice.

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Lacia G Coons
Lacia G Coons
stupak sucks!!!
3 hours ago
Joan Thomson
Joan Thomson
Ben Nelson of NE is about the worst of the worst. He is the Redist of the RED yet has the gall to call himself a Democrat.
3 hours ago
NARAL Pro-Choice America

NARAL Pro-Choice America What do anti-choice organizations have to say about being included in our Hall of Shame contest? Check out RH Reality Check's funny take.

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NARAL's hall of shame has some anti-choicers thrilled, others peeved, and still more ready to up the rhetoric to make the cut next year. Plus, removing the stigma from sexual health and discussing the big G.
Kevin Mauldin
Kevin Mauldin
"Its All fluff...rediculous, worthless fluff. Mark my words. I could be wrong...BUT I'M NOT!
9 hours ago
Tara Yann
Tara Yann
Wait; isn't Obama Pro-Choice? We are still working on the healthcare reform that deals with funding for abortions.
9 hours ago
NARAL Pro-Choice America

NARAL Pro-Choice America We've recently added new stories from real women about their experiences accessing critical reproductive-health care to our web site. Please read some of their moving stories, and submit your own by going to http://bit.ly/5k2MSh

Tue at 2:01pm
Diana Gwinn
Diana Gwinn
PJ... hehehe... one of my faves.. I'll have to remember your caveat.
Tue at 7:01pm
Tavis Curry
Tavis Curry
@Pegi Sapp Burton - You are exactly right!
Tue at 8:49pm
NARAL Pro-Choice America

NARAL Pro-Choice America Prosecutors in the case of Dr. Tiller's murder are developing their list of witnesses who may be able to give a complete picture of what happened that tragic day.

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Prosecutors added 10 names to their burgeoning list of witnesses in the upcoming trial of a man accused of killing a prominent abortion provider, including the defendant's brother. Sedgwick County Judge ...
Amy
Amy
Here's a novel thought - let's not waste the court's time and just send the guy directly to the clink.
Tue at 2:06pm
NARAL Pro-Choice America

NARAL Pro-Choice America Thankfully, a judge further delayed the start of Oklahoma's intrusive abortion reporting law. We should find out February 19 whether the law will take effect.

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An Oklahoma judge has delayed a controversial law requiring doctors to publicly post details about abortion patients.
Tani
Tani
Sounds like a bogus defense to me.
Tue at 10:00am
MAndy Prater
MAndy Prater
They think if they try to shame people, they won't get abortions. That's not the point!! I don't care if it's a broken toe, there are laws against releasing medical information, right?
Tue at 1:35pm
NARAL Pro-Choice America

NARAL Pro-Choice America Update on the trial of the man accused of murdering Dr. Tiller: Scott Roeder may be able to defend his actions as "use of force in defense of another." We'll let you know when we hear more.

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas judge will hear further arguments on whether a man who has confessed to shooting a Wichita abortion provider may present evidence on the "use of force in defense of another."
NARAL Pro-Choice America

NARAL Pro-Choice America Happy New Year's Eve! Today is also the last day in 2009 to support a woman's right to choose with a tax-deductible donation to NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation. You can donate through our Facebook Cause: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/263

December 31, 2009 at 8:02am
Timothy Nelms
Timothy Nelms
yeah,they just added a giant wooly rat to our lives and you're cheering! (jokin-thanks! HNY!)
December 31, 2009 at 1:59pm
NARAL Pro-Choice America

NARAL Pro-Choice America Time is running out to cast your votes for the 2009 pro-choice Hall of Fame and Shame! Vote here: http://bit.ly/7KJtOE #p2 #fem2

December 30, 2009 at 11:50am via Selective Tweets
Barbra Peterson
Barbra Peterson
Has NARAL scored this pathetic health care deform bill yet? Please post when you do, thanks.
December 30, 2009 at 12:27pm
Teddy Partridge
Teddy Partridge
I think it's a shame NARAL isn't scoring House and Senate votes for the awful Stupak/Nelson language that will restrict women's health coverage. Why not score, NARAL? Or do you not really oppose this language?
December 30, 2009 at 12:31pm
NARAL Pro-Choice America

NARAL Pro-Choice America Don't forget to vote for NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation on CREDO's 2009 Donations Ballot! If you're not a Credo member, you just have to sign a petition to participate. Please give us 100% of your vote! http://bit.ly/6OLYVl

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Molly Rinehart Gordon
Molly Rinehart Gordon
You must score the bill, or become irrelevant!
December 29, 2009 at 3:24pm
Paul Morgan
Paul Morgan
Please score the health care bill.
December 29, 2009 at 8:17pm
NARAL Pro-Choice America

NARAL Pro-Choice America Happy Holidays from the NARAL Pro-Choice America staff!

Joanie Fritz Zosike
Joanie Fritz Zosike
This begrudging limbo land Retract your bristles and cruel claws
Unforgiving blighted terrain Deny your pride, allow sweet peace to
Offers little light, but let Spread across this beaten globe to
A little tall tale leak into Sweeten water, earth and air
An unsuspecting souk, entreating To soften spirits and prepare... See More
Ocean creatures, living things Please let it be in this new year
On ground, above, in sky and sea: Set ourselves free in this new year
Endure a second birth, unbare Give harps and trumpets leave to sing
Your teeth, suspend your stench, Herald the day!

With fond greetings & unflagging hope,
Joanie Fritz Zosike 12-23-09
December 25, 2009 at 8:41am
Christine
Christine
Yay! great pic=-) We are Truly Thankful for All That You All Do Every Day! You Beautiful Outstanding People Have Our Warmest Holiday Greetings. Wishing you and yours a very happy healthy and SUCCESSFUL New Year=-)
December 26, 2009 at 10:22pm
NARAL Pro-Choice America

NARAL Pro-Choice America Senate passed #hcr bill w/ anti-choice provision. We'll keep working to improve the bill. Our statement on it: http://bit.ly/6sflZz #p2

December 24, 2009 at 6:48am via Selective Tweets
Harolynne
Harolynne
Will you score the HCR bill (the final regardless of whether it is Stupak or Nelson) so that we can tell where our Representatives stand on choice and throwing women under the bus?
December 29, 2009 at 2:53pm
Emily
Emily
Score this awful bill--there must be consequences for trying to sell women down the river.
December 29, 2009 at 3:16pm
NARAL Pro-Choice America

NARAL Pro-Choice America Who has best exemplified pro-choice values this year? Who's work to take away a woman's right to choose most deserves all our scorn? Cast your vote for the 2009 Pro-Choice Hall of Fame and Shame!

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Without question, the pro-choice community lost two great champions in 2009 with the murder of Dr. George Tiller and the passing of pro-choice Sen. Edward Kennedy. They will forever be remembered as heroes for having lived the credo, "Trust Women."
Donald Hall
Donald Hall
Congratulations to the winners and the losers.

Here's something for both the winners and losers to think about.

If decent sex education could be provided (something beyond "abstinence only") so teenagers and young adults are empowered with the knowledge to make wise decisions (sexually speaking) we could virtually eliminate unwanted pregnancies and cut the spread of STDs.... See More

Just a side note. My daughter received decent sex education, thanks to her mother. That knowledge completely turned her off to sex until she became an adult.
December 25, 2009 at 3:38pm
Alberto Escalante
Alberto Escalante
It will never happen until we learn to educate and re program the human animal. As soon youngsters like any procreating creature turn a certain age all they think about is having relations with the opposite sex & advance their species, and the only possible way is sexual activity. It overcomes every other urge or teaching. If you try to surpress ... See Morethat primal urge you run the risk of creating a subject with deviated sexual urges.
That's why until we can elevate our primary Chakra away from the groin to the solar plexus or the Heart Chakra, sex will be the main urge of the pubescent human animal.....
December 25, 2009 at 5:12pm
NARAL Pro-Choice America

NARAL Pro-Choice America The man accused of murdering Dr. Tiller will not be permitted to use the "so-called 'necessity defense'" in court. The judge says that excusing criminal actions because of personal beliefs would "lead to chaos."

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A judge in Wichita ruled that Kansas law did not allow a so-called “necessity defense” in the trial of a man charged with killing a doctor who performed abortions.
Vickie
Vickie
Luis EQR...Violence isn't winning the argument, it's just terrifying doctors into not providing health care to women in need. I'm afraid that we will end up in the pre-Roe situation when mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, lovers and friends are dying before people wake up and see that criminalizing abortion isn't the answer. Birth control and ... See Moresex education (not abstinence) will decrease the number of abortions but will not eliminate it so there will always be a need for trained abortion providers. We need to get into medical schools and press for giving accurate information to the students regarding the need. Then we need to train them. Hopefully they will honor women and provide the necessary health care requested without judgment.
December 24, 2009 at 6:53am
Luis Enrique Quinones Ramirez
Luis Enrique Quinones Ramirez
If doctors are being intimidated, women are getting screwed because they're nor getting the abortions they need and desire. Dr. Carhart is probably the only abortion provider in the country who is carrying out late term abortions. You know what that means? That many women are not getting their abortions because terrorists are intimidating doctors into not providing abortions. Clinic escorts need to be re-enforced with professional security personnel. This is a security issue.
December 24, 2009 at 11:42am
NARAL Pro-Choice America

NARAL Pro-Choice America Here's an easy and FREE way to help protect a woman's right to choose: Vote for NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation on CREDO's 2009 Donations Ballot. Your vote could translate into tens of thousands of dollars to support our work to protect women's access to reproductive-health care. If you're not already a CREDO membe...r, you just have to sign one of their petitions to participate.

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Kim
Kim
I voted...you didn't get all 100%, but you got a healthy slice of my pie.
December 22, 2009 at 5:44pm
Christine Rodrigues
December 22, 2009 at 8:16pm
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NARAL Pro-Choice America Are young women ambivalent or complacent about abortion care? This story dives into what the Stupak abortion-coverage ban in the health-reform bill means to young women

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NEW YORK — At 21, Jelena Woehr describes herself as a feminist, focusing on issues such as domestic violence and improved career opportunities for women.