Pro-Choice Maryland

Saw this on my friend's timeline, and thought I would share it with you all (no, she didn't write it). It's damn good.

Somewhere there is a woman: 30, no children. People ask her, “Still no kids?” Her response varies from day to day, but it usually includes forced smiles and restraint.

“Nope, not yet,” she says with a chuckle, muffling her frustration.

“Well, don’t wait forever. That clock is ticking, ya know,” the sage says before departing, happy with herself for imparting such erudite wisdom. The sage leaves. The woman holds her smile. Alone, she cries…

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The Oklahoma Supreme Court unanimously vetoed a ballot measure that would have given embryos full personhood rights on Monday, ruling it "clearly unconstitutional" because it would block a woman's legal right to have an abortion.

The personhood measure would give embryos the same legal rights as people from the moment of fertilization, which opponents say would ban abortion and complicate the legality of in vitro fertilization and many forms of birth control. Enacting such a law would violate the U.S. Supreme Court's 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which allows states to pass some abortion restrictions but prevents them from overturning the constitutional right to end a pregnancy.

"The mandate of Casey is as binding on this Court today as it was twenty years ago," the Oklahoma Supreme Court wrote in its decision. "Initiative Petition No. 395 conflicts with Casey and is void on its face and it is hereby ordered stricken."
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( In Minnesota )
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( In Texas )

Considering all this happened yesterday, I wondered if the politicans and justices of America got a wake up call from all the "Unite against the War on Women" protests that happened this past weekend that women's reproductive rights shouldn't be messed with.

From NARAL:
On November 8, 2011, Mississippians will go to the polls to vote on Ballot initiative 26, which is a vote on whether to ban abortion and possibly most types of birth control in Mississippi. Our opponents are so cruel that they would force a woman who survives rape to carry a pregnancy caused by her attacker.

We know that anti-choice groups have set their sights on Mississippi and, if this egregious measure passes, it will be a victory for anti-choice activists across the country. We can’t let this happen!

NARAL Pro-Choice America is partnering with The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and Planned Parenthood Federation of America to say “NO!” to Initiative 26, and we need YOU!

Training, dinner and refreshments will be provided to all of our volunteers. Phone bank dates (exact event location will be shared when you RSVP):

Tuesday, November 1, 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 3, 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Monday, November 7, 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
(Farragut North Metro area)

If you want to contact the person in charge, let me know and I'll message the email to you.