Fighting for Abortion Access Is an Act of Love 2-4 p.m. Saturday Kamp’s 1910 Café 10 NE 10th St. ocrj.org Abortion can be a hard topic to talk about, but approaching it artfully may change the tone of the dialogue. “Doing reproductive rights work, we get some pretty vile responses sometimes, and it’s just kind […]
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Abortion access
Proposed legislation in 2012 that would have granted a fertilized egg the same rights as a person mobilized Danielle Williams to join the fight for reproductive justice. “It was kind of the first moment that I took the abortion debate personally. I luckily have never needed abortion care or anything like that, but it was […]
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Factchecking Oklahoma: Can medical abortions be reversed?
On Wednesday, a judge put on hold an Oklahoma law requiring medical abortion providers to tell patients that the procedure is reversible. Under the law, which had been scheduled to go into effect in November, doctors who fail to give this information to patients could receive a felony charge. The law also requires abortion providers […]
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Abortion ruling
An Oklahoma judge made history by upholding a law banning a second-trimester abortion procedure. District judge Cindy Truong’s ruling affects a 2015 bill that bans dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortions in the second trimester. Reproductive rights activists are calling the decision “rogue” because other states — including Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky and Texas — passed similar […]
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Commentary: Handmaid’s senator
Next week, Hulu’s acclaimed adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale begins its third season on the streaming service. A dystopian nightmare in which fundamentalists seize control of the United States in a violent coup, reduce newly rechristened Gilead’s population of women to forced procreation vessels and banish heretics and the infertile to work in […]
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Reproductive wrongs
In a cultural moment when the societal rights of women to not be subjugated, objectified or otherwise exploited is on people’s minds, Oklahoma lawmakers are attempting to do just that, reducing pregnant women to the status of what state Rep. Justin Humphrey, R-Lane, called “hosts.” Senate Bill 195, sponsored by state Senate president pro tempore […]
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Chicken-Fried News: 2018 takeout
Fallin away The queen is dead; long live the king. Mary Fallin’s eight-year reign of terror over the state is over, and her successor Kevin Stitt is a political outsider who campaigned on his version of “drain the swamp” but has surrounded himself with insiders during his transition to the Governor’s Mansion. Oh, Gov. Fallin, […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Silkworm
Meanwhile, as Lopez and Pollard plan to force parents to send their boys to market-driven (re)education facilities while the girls stay home and prepare themselves for servile marriage, State Senator Joseph Silk, R-Broken Arrow, has authored Senate Bill 13, the kind of legislation that indicates many He-Man Woman Haters are using Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s […]
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Just because you’re “opposed to abortion” doesn’t make you “pro-life.”
Just because you’re “opposed to abortion” doesn’t make you “pro-life.”
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Letters to the Editor: Feb. 22, 2017
As long as Oklahoma keeps voting in the same clowns into the state Legislature, nothing will change.