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...That position, responds Dr. Karen Loeb Lifford, a Boston Ob-Gyn who serves as medical director for Planned Parenthood in Massachusetts, "sounds incredibly reasonable. Who can disagree with parents making health decisions for their children? But take a closer look at that argument: it's denying the vaccine to many people who won't have access to it unless it's mandatory." Many parents might not know to ask for it, or be able to afford it. "If it's available in theory but it costs $375, its not available to everybody. If it's only effective before women have...
...belittle the ridiculous overreaction in the press after the mother of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito stated something obvious: "Of course he's against abortion," Mrs. Alito said of her son. Coulter unearths 25 years of public statements by abortion-rights supporters who stipulated that, as a Planned Parenthood official said in 1978, "Strictly speaking, no one is for abortion... We are pro-choice." But apparently Mrs. Alito shouldn't be allowed to say her son is against abortion, which everyone knows anyway...
Grad students who are pregnant or have young children say they’re concerned about the way their professors and peers will react to their parenthood decisions...
...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...