Word: parenthood
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...guessed it—a women’s center.Contrary to popular belief, the Harvard College women’s center, slated as of now to open in fall 2006, is neither going to be a massive, student center-esque edifice nor a den of Planned Parenthood and sexual experimentation. The women’s center as currently envisioned contains little more than office and meeting space. These offices would house a director of the center, whose job it would be to coordinate the resources and the support available to women on campus. The meeting spaces could be used...
...rights of fathers have always been the background noise of the abortion debate. Beginning with Planned Parenthood v. Danforth in 1976, then in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992, state efforts to require that fathers be notified before women have abortions were struck down by the Supreme Court as placing too great a burden on women. A majority of Americans approve of spousal notification, provided there are exceptions for women in abusive situations, and when he was an appeals court judge Sam Alito upheld such a provision. But the Supreme Court ruled in Casey that "it cannot be claimed that...
...There was all kinds of outcry about a law that goes so far. ?Most polls show that between 70 and 80% of the public support access to safe and legal abortion in at least the case of rape and incest,? says Kate Looby, the state director of Planned Parenthood. Indeed, some abortion foes worried that the bill could do more harm than good, galvanizing abortion rights groups, alienating voters whose views are more mixed, and even prompting the Supreme Court to throw out the law, and fortify Roe in the process...
...bill reflected the findings of a state Task Force To Study Abortion that reported its findings to Governor Rounds and the legislature last December. The task force report compares the experience of women who go to Planned Parenthood, the state?s primary abortion provider, with those who go to crisis pregnancy centers. It charges that women are ?misled? by abortion providers, who dehumanize the fetus (calling it ?tissue? or ?the contents of the uterus?) and do not reveal that ?the procedure will terminate the life of a human being.? An epidemic of remorse and depression results. At the crisis pregnancy...
...hypocritical it just blows my mind,? Planned Parenthood?s Looby counters. ?They understand that this is a problem for the public, so they had to come up with a way to get around that and this is their attempt to do so.? The majority of rape victims, she notes, are victims of date rape, and the majority of incest victims are quite young. ?They don?t present themselves at a hospital or doctor?s office to ask for contraceptive measures to prevent pregnancy,? she says. ?So I think it?s very disingenuous of him to suggest this is an exception...