Oklahoma’s House Public Health Committee recently approved a bill requiring women seeking abortion to obtain paternal permission.
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Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice advocates for women’s, family health care rights
“Oklahoma has a trend of being a little more hostile towards choice and reproductive justice in general,” Speidel said.
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Chicken-Fried News: Aborted intentions
A recent mandate aiming ‘to achieve an abortion-free society’ was aborted after public backlash.
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Chicken-Fried News: Ridiculous requirements
An Oklahoma abortion law is called into question while a similar law in Texas was recently struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Megan Mullally returns to home state for new comedy show at Riverwind Casino
Mullaly tells Oklahoma Gazette she loves returning home despite the state’s embarrassing politics.
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Letters to the Editor: April 6, 2016
The next day, I was still fuming over the incident and decided that if people that ignorant can go around changing weak minds, then I need a dog in this fight, so I donated $10 to Planned Parenthood for every minute of my time he wasted.
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Anti-abortion protests were met with bewilderment, resistance and tolerance
“So long as they are acting within their First Amendment rights, they have every right to be there,” he said.
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Commentary: The right to choose
For thousands of years, women have passed along secrets of how to end a pregnancy or how to prevent one. Until birth control, there was no sure defense against pregnancy; and until legalized abortion, there was no safe way to end a pregnancy. Currently, in America, 99 percent of women in their fertile years will […]
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Letters to the Editor: September 9, 2015
Prenatal perplexity I read your Aug. 26 commentary piece on Planned Parenthood. I feel like everyone is missing a crucial portion of the work this organization does. The same low-income patients seen for these other issues go back to Planned Parenthood when they are pregnant for prenatal care in far greater numbers than those who […]
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Commentary: The truth about Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest provider of sex education and women’s health care. It helps an estimated 10 million women across the globe each year. In 2011, 97 percent of its worldwide services involved things like Pap smears, education, pregnancy tests, STI and STD testing (including HIV and AIDS). Thirty-five percent of its services are contraceptive in nature […]