Archive for January, 2012
Coming to a Town Near You –The Truth about Crisis Pregnancy Centers
January 24th, 2012 by catherineRH Reality has done an excellent job pulling the curtain back on crisis pregnancy centers.
These are the centers that Westchester’s Right to Life County Executive, Rob Astorino, has welcomed into our County. He has stood at the ribbon cutting ceremonies, cheering as these organizations that are intentionally dishonesty, deceive the women of Westchester.
Background on Abortion for Trust Women Week
January 24th, 2012 by catherine
There will always be women who need access to abortions.
Abortion is basic health care for women.
- 1 in 3 American women will have had an abortion by age 45.
- About 50% of pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended.
- 4 in 10 unintended pregnancies are terminated by abortion.
- In 2008, 1.21 million abortions were performed in US.
- Teen pregnancy accounts for only 2 in 10 of all abortions
performed in the US. - Women in their twenties account for more than half of all
abortions performed in the US. - 88% of abortions occur in the 1st 12 weeks. Only
1.5% occur later in the term. - 6 in 10 women having abortions already have one or more
children. - These women often cite the need to care for their children as a primary reason for choosing to have an abortion.
Catholics support birth control and have abortions.
- “ Sensus fidelium —the graced and experience-fed wisdom of the faithful that has always been one of the sources of truth in the Catholic tradition.”
- 98% of sexually active Catholic women have used a form of contraception banned by the Catholic Church.
- As recently as 1968, a majority of the Pope’s advisors agreed that there was no pastoral reason to ban Catholics from using contraception.
http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/news/op-eds/2011/OnfamilyplanningdoestheCatholicChurchrepresentCatholics.asp.asp
Kicking Off 2012 with a Bang! Trust Women Week & Our National Online March !
January 20th, 2012 by catherinefor Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice
January 20-27
Join the March Now!
(Click Here)
Choice Matters—together with over 41 other national and local organizations across the country—is participating in Trust Women Week this January 20-27, organized by the Trust Women /Silver Ribbon Campaign and MoveOn. We will organize one million people in a Virtual March to demand that local, state and federal elected officials trust womento make our own decisions about our bodies and our lives.
The Virtual March’s mission is Choice Matters’ mission: Keep abortion legal and ensure that all women, regardless of age, race, class, status, geography or ability to pay, have full, unimpeded access to reproductive health care.
MoveOn will alert its 6 million members that on the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a million women and men will express their support for the human rights of women that are callously disregarded by anti-woman politicians across the country. Choice Matters will send out an action alert for steps you can take to stand up for women during Trust Women Week – January 20-27.
We will show our numbers on an online map. This will enable us to include the many who can not travel, or are frightened away by the extreme violence of anti-choice extremists.
Together we will build solidarity and momentum in support of women’s rights, equality and autonomy; access to comprehensive health care, including reproductive health care services; and reproductive justice.
Every week should be Trust Women Week but, sadly, we know that is not the case.
Congress and state legislatures across the country have laid siege to women’s rights, launching an all-out-war on women! In 2011, the 50 states combined enacted a record number of abortion restrictions. Legislators introduced over 1,100 reproductive health and rights-related provisions, up from the 950 in 2010; 135 of these were enacted in 36 states, an increase from the 89 enacted in 2010 and 77 in 2009. Of these, 92 restrict access to abortion services. This is a record breaking increase over any previous year. The U.S. House of Representatives jumped in, passing legislation attacking women from every direction—cutting funding to Planned Parenthood; passing H.R. 358 which literally allows hospitals to let women die rather than perform an abortion that would save the woman’s life; eliminating insurance coverage; and more.
