http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/14/turner.planned.parenthood/index.html

RELEVANT!!!!!!!

You might be wondering what this subject has to do with Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is currently under a lot of scrutiny for their abortion practices and it become the number one topic of debate between both Democratic and Republican campaigns all over the US. They have always been under scrutiny for various reasons.

"Planned Parenthood has been a polarizing organization ever since its precursor, a clinic in Brooklyn, New York, was founded in 1916 by pioneering birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger.

It provides a range of health services — including cancer screenings, testing for HIV and contraception — but its role as the No. 1 abortion provider in the United States has for many years made it the focus of violence, boycotts, protests and attempted sting operations by anti-abortion activists."

Since 1977, there have been 8 murders, 17 attempted murders, 42 bombings and 186 arsons and thousands of other incidents, including vandalism, according to the National Abortion Foundation, a trade group for abortion providers. Most recently, the shooting that happened in one Planned Parenthood center on November 27th of this year. The shooting left 3 dead and 9 wounded.

"A proposed bill before the Kansas state legislature would require women to report miscarriages at any stage in pregnancy. This has been described as the first step along the path to criminalizing pregnant women’s bodies. Under an amendment attached to House Bill 2613, doctors would be required to report all of their patients’ miscarriages to the state health department, Tara Culp-Ressler reported for ThinkProgress."

Click link to read more:
http://www.projectcensored.org/15-reporting-miscarriages-criminalizing-pregnant-womens-bodies/

Pro Choice or Pro Life? Whats Worse 

http://www.projectcensored.org/15-reporting-miscarriages-criminalizing-pregnant-womens-bodies/

https://feminist.org/blog/index.php/tag/reproductive-rights/

My topic for the class blog project is Women s Reproductive Rights. I read an article on Project Censored about a bill that was proposed but was never passed. It required women to report miscarriages, thus criminalizing pregnant women’s bodies. Although it was never passed it compelled me, I wanted to dig deeper. Recently, the news reported the republican congress wanted to de-fund Planned Parenthood because of scrutiny on the way miscarriages are performed there and what happens after the fetuses are removed from the womb. This introduces the ongoing issue of “The collective take down of reproductive rights as a whole” My goal is to discover what the government wants and has to do with women’s reproductive rights. Why is abortion all of a sudden a deeper issue than immigration? Is the government forgetting Roe vs. Wade?