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Anti-abortion laws1
  • Priests have motivated worshippers to vote for conservative majorities such as PiS, preached sermons advertising anti-abortion laws, and advocated for new heavily religious education systems . (dailycampus.com)
Abortions3
  • The current law in Iowa requires a licensed physician to be present for the administration of mifepristone, making it difficult for women lacking access to a doctor who perform abortions to obtain the drug. (feminist.org)
  • Nevertheless, a network of anarchists and other feminists strives to ensure that those who need abortions can access them, legally or not. (crimethinc.com)
  • This means that the vast majority of professors who are ok with aborting a baby admit to knowing that abortions end human life! (creation.com)
Weeks of a pregnancy1
  • Mifepristone, taken along with a prostaglandin, has been used by over half a million women worldwide and has found to be safe and effective as an early abortion method during the first nine weeks of a pregnancy. (chuckiii.com)
Women12
  • The name Feminist Majority comes from a 1986 Newsweek/Gallup public opinion poll in which 56 percent of American women self-identified as feminists. (wikipedia.org)
  • President and one of the founders, Eleanor Smeal, chose the name to reflect the results of the poll, implying that the majority of women are feminists. (wikipedia.org)
  • Co-founded in 1972 by political activist and feminist Gloria Steinem, Ms. is a women's magazine owned and produced by women that publishes articles on the conditions of women in the United States and abroad. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2004, the Feminist Majority was one of five principal organizers of the "March for Women's Lives", which brought more than 1.15 million women and men to Washington, D.C., in support of reproductive rights. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] The Feminist Majority continues advocating for U.S. ratification of, both, the United Nations Women's Rights Treaty CEDAW, the Convention to End all forms of Discrimination Against Women) and the International Criminal Court. (wikipedia.org)
  • Contraceptive Research*Picture: Feminist Majority Foundation* In addition to its use in terminating unwanted pregnancies, MIFEPRISTONE (formerly known as RU-486) also may be effective in treating a range of serious diseases and medical conditions, many of which particularly affect women. (chuckiii.com)
  • A B O R T I O N & F E R T I L I T Y C O N T R O L Available to women in many countries (but currently not in the U.S.), mifepristone (formerly known as RU-486) is the first in a new generation of fertility control agents that can terminate an early pregnancy. (chuckiii.com)
  • Many women prefer mifepristone because the procedure is more private and allows them greater psychological control in ending a pregnancy. (chuckiii.com)
  • Western medicine's first approved nonsurgical abortion method, RU-486 which is also known as mifepristone is in many ways a successor to the teas and tinctures women have used for centuries. (chuckiii.com)
  • Looking back, I was one of countless young women first driven to feminist organizing by my own perceived victimhood. (buzzfeednews.com)
  • In particular, the Build Back Better Act's investments in care work, paid leave, and health care will help millions of women, especially Black women and women of color who do the majority of our nation's paid and unpaid work. (weareultraviolet.org)
  • 3 MSF promotes abortion even in areas where the majority of women do not want it, such as in parts of Africa where fertility and having many children is valued. (creation.com)
Pregnancy3
  • Mifepristone is a drug intended to terminate a pregnancy in its early stages. (feminist.org)
  • Mifepristone works by blocking the action of progesterone, which is necessary to sustain a pregnancy. (chuckiii.com)
  • If someone in Poland wants to travel abroad to terminate a pregnancy, counselors refer them to Ciocia Basia, a queer feminist grassroots collective in Berlin dedicated to building support structures for people coming to Berlin for abortion access. (crimethinc.com)
Clinic1
  • Kvajelyn Jackson, executive director of the Feminist Women's Health Center in Atlanta, who is one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit challenging Georgia's law, said these statistics apply to the center's clinic as well. (georgialawnews.com)
Women's2
  • The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) is a non-profit organization headquartered in Arlington County, Virginia, whose stated mission is to advance non-violence and women's power, equality, and economic development. (wikipedia.org)
  • Feminists who advocate for women's spaces are on the opposite side of trans issues from rightwingers. (molvray.com)
Foundation1
  • On March 23 and 24 of 2013, FMF hosted its 9th Annual National Young Feminist Leadership conference in Arlington, Virginia, with speakers such as Dolores Huerta (President, Dolores Huerta Foundation/Co-Founder United Farm Workers/Recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom), Morgane Richardson (Founder of Refuse The Silence), Monica Simpson (Executive Director, Sister Song), Ivanna Gonzalez (Who Needs Feminism? (wikipedia.org)
Legislation2
  • For the past three years, Coburn has unsuccessfully tried to pass Congressional legislation barring the FDA from approving Mifepristone. (feminist.org)
  • Repubs are the opposite of feminists when they ballyhoo anti-trans legislation. (molvray.com)
Vast majority1
  • The vast majority of feedback, of the order of 80%, was in favour of the various proposals of the Bill. (johnling.co.uk)
Abortion rights3
  • Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, abortion rights in the US have been severely restricted in several states, with a recent ruling by a federal judge in Texas, designed to take the abortion pill mifepristone off the market nationally, heading to the Supreme Court. (theartnewspaper.com)
  • Now artist Nancy Baker Cahill is giving the overwhelming majority of Americans who support abortion rights a voice-and an image: a bright red, exploding uterus that appears, through augmented reality (AR) technology, above the Supreme Court and choice statehouses. (theartnewspaper.com)
  • In response, the European Parliament adopted a resolution to include the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights , with an overwhelming majority and France approved a bill enshrining abortion rights in the constitution. (womenonwaves.org)
Drug3
  • On Jan. 3, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a new certification process for brick-and-mortar pharmacies to become eligible to sell the abortion pill mifepristone for the first time. (msmagazine.com)
  • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lifted the requirement for personal prescriptions for a drug called mifepristone during the pandemic, and later made the rule permanent. (georgialawnews.com)
  • The fact remains that Dr. Ford was the lead biostatistician on several studies for her current/former employer (status unclear) on new uses for the existing abortion drug, RU-486, a.k.a., mifepristone, which are designed to extend its patent and keep it legal. (mariaromana.com)
Woman2
  • In order for a woman to receive mifepristone via videoconference, she must first go to her local Planned Parenthood and undergo the required physical exam, blood test, medical history report, ultrasound, and counseling session, all administered in - person by a nurse, describes the Times . (feminist.org)
  • A young white woman speaks from the heart about her feelings about Obama, then asks, "As a feminist who is supporting Obama, what can I do to continue to combat sexism? (blogspot.com)
Provide3
  • Planned Parenthood has being using telemedicine to provide mifepristone to patients in Iowa since 2008, performing some 1,500 procedures, reports the Times . (feminist.org)
  • Well, I get balls-deep (literally as all wedding traditions are patriarchal in origin) into the history of each major Western wedding tradition, I analyze it from a contemporary feminist and intersectional perspective, I provide positive solutions and egalitarian options, and I weave in my own self-deprecating, wedding anecdotes because, after all, this is about weddings. (thefeministbride.com)
  • Reproductive Health Care Organization (RHCO) members provide family planning and/or reproductive health services-not including abortion-in proprietary clinics, nonprofit clinics, feminist clinics, physicians' offices, and/or facilities affiliated with hospitals. (slntech.net)
Political3
  • She had told him of her concerns about diminishing support among Republicans, the party which has provided a substantial majority of the political support for suffrage so far. (feminist.org)
  • Geolocation can be a fickle beast," says the artist, whose AR work has roots both in feminist Land Art and the history of political interventions. (theartnewspaper.com)
  • But in reality AKP government and the state machinery need ignorant, scarcely educated majority to increase as a percentage of total population to guarantee their political and social existence. (wluml.org)
Voters1
  • This abortion fight is directly related to the dissolution of democracy through redistricting and the suppression of voters' rights-it's not what the majority of Americans want. (theartnewspaper.com)
Public1
  • Harkema and Roberts practice together in the seven-member WIP Collab-orative , a "shared feminist practice of inde-pendent design professionals working to-gether on projects that engage community and the public realm. (archpaper.com)
Review1
  • The Trump-appointed federal judge Matthew Kaczmarek purposely exploited confusion about procedural details in the FDA's approval process to peddle the false narrative that the agency recklessly hastened review of mifepristone. (bauaw.org)
History1
  • The majority held that abortion is not a constitutional right as the Constitution does not mention it and its substantive right was not "deeply rooted" in the country's history. (wikizero.com)
Court1
Swing state1
American1
  • In November 2003, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Concord Feminist Health Center, the Feminist Health Center of Portsmouth, N.H., and Manchester, N.H.-based ob-gyn Wayne Goldner filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of this law because it did not include an exception in cases where a minor's health was at risk. (prochoice.org)
Join1
  • Chief Justice John Roberts agreed with the judgment upholding the Mississippi law but did not join the majority in the opinion to overturn Roe and Casey . (wikizero.com)
Misoprostol6
Abortion pill3
  • Peg Yorkin, a feminist activist and philanthropist who as a founder of the Feminist Majority, a national women's rights organization, campaigned to bring mifepristone, the abortion pill, to the United States and to increase the number of women in political office, died on Sunday at her home in Malibu, Calif. She was 96. (bigyack.com)
  • Walgreens just announced that it will not distribute the abortion pill mifepristone in a whopping 24 states--including states where abortion remains completely legal. (weareultraviolet.org)
  • Join the protest if the Texas court bans the abortion pill, Mifepristone! (bauaw.org)
Progesterone6
  • While previous literature has suggested the potential for progesterone-mediated reversal of mifepristone-induced abortion, this process has not been effectively investigated pre-clinically. (nature.com)
  • Our study explored the potential reversal of mifepristone-induced pregnancy termination using progesterone in a rat model, following a clear initiation of pregnancy termination. (nature.com)
  • Female Long-Evans rats were divided into three groups (n = 10-16/group): Pregnant control (M−P−), mifepristone-only/pregnancy termination (M+P−) and mifepristone + progesterone (M+P+). (nature.com)
  • Our results indicate that progesterone administration following initiation of mifepristone-induced pregnancy termination (indicated by weight loss and uterine bleeding) reversed the process in 81% of rats in the M+P+ group. (nature.com)
  • Thus, our results indicate a clear progesterone-mediated reversal of an initiated mifepristone-induced pregnancy termination in a rat model at first-trimester human equivalent, with resultant fully developed living fetuses at the end of gestation, clearly indicating the necessity for further pre-clinical investigation to assist in better informing the scientific/medical communities of the potential implications in humans. (nature.com)
  • The first pill, mifepristone (or RU-486), blocks progesterone, essentially starving the preborn baby of nutrients. (lutheransforlifefortwayne.org)
Yorkin4
  • The Feminist Majority was founded in 1987 by Ms. Yorkin, Katherine Spillar, Toni Carabillo, Judith Meuli and Eleanor Smeal, a former president of the National Organization for Women. (bigyack.com)
  • Ms. Yorkin and her colleagues next turned to mifepristone, which the French government in 1998 had approved for use in family planning centers to induce abortions in the early stages of pregnancy. (bigyack.com)
  • Ms. Yorkin, Ms. Smeal and others gathered support from scientists and politicians, and in 1990 they traveled to Europe to urge the French company that had the patent for mifepristone to seek Food and Drug Administration approval - while, at the same time, anti-abortion activists were fighting to keep it out. (bigyack.com)
  • Ms. Spillar, who is now executive director of the Feminist Majority, remembered Ms. Yorkin saying that in the days before the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, she helped women find doctors in Mexico who could provide abortions. (bigyack.com)
20231
  • To ring in the new year, Ms. asked a few of our favorite feminists-reproductive justice advocates, scholars, legal minds, voting rights activists, Ms . staffers and environmental justice experts-what they are wishing for in 2023. (msmagazine.com)
Congress1
  • We're expecting great things from all the newly-elected feminists in Congress and governor's offices and state legislatures across the country. (msmagazine.com)
Hormone1
  • Mifepristone, formerly known as RU-486, has anti-hormone properties. (feminist.org)
Medications2
  • A majority of U.S. patients terminating their pregnancies do so with abortion medications. (bigmoneyhall.com)
  • The U.S. Supreme Court is considering the legal status of mifepristone, the first of two medications in the most common and most effective method. (bigmoneyhall.com)
Supreme Court1
  • Without a doubt, the 5-4 June Medical Services v. Russo ruling was a significant victory in the pro-choice arena, especially considering the conservative majority in the Supreme Court. (now.org)
Health3
  • When all else fails, feminists can make health research for gender minorities move forward. (feminist.org)
  • Abortion pills are available at pharmacies in Cameroon, but obtaining them necessitates a strict medical prescription, and the majority of regular health personnel in the country are not authorized to prescribe them. (womenonwaves.org)
  • Moments ago, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans released a new version of their health care legislation, which would repeal Affordable Care Act. (weareultraviolet.org)
Study3
  • In this mixed methods study an interpretive feminist lens was used which allowed for the exploration of gender related oppression and marginalisation, valuing the voice of women who described and shared their lived experience of SPT. (medscape.com)
  • This qualitative feminist study used transcripts of semi-structured, in-depth interviews with abortion-seekers from previous research to create I-poems. (bvsalud.org)
  • The study, which followed 754 women who wanted to stop their in-progress chemical abortion, reported a 68 percent success rate in reversing the effects of mifepristone. (lutheransforlifefortwayne.org)
Prescription1
Conservative1
  • If you look at polling on abortion, even in conservative states, there's a majority pro-choice view. (publicnow.com)
Group1
  • If Trump-appointed District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk rules in favor of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the far-right group bringing suit, mifepristone would be forced off the market and clinics' capacities could significantly fall. (msmagazine.com)
Reverse1
  • The ruling in a lawsuit out of Texas seeking to reverse FDA approval of mifepristone is expected as soon as this week. (msmagazine.com)
Time2
  • At the same time, feminists were pushing the Democratic Party to take a stronger stand in favor of reproductive rights. (publicnow.com)
  • Yet Medicaid data from 2015 showed these events were miscoded a majority of the time. (lozierinstitute.org)
Process1
  • The Trump-appointed federal judge Matthew Kaczmarek purposely exploited confusion about procedural details in the FDA's approval process to peddle the false narrative that the agency recklessly hastened review of mifepristone. (bauaw.org)
Percent2
  • The name Feminist Majority comes from a 1986 Newsweek/Gallup public opinion poll in which 56 percent of American women self-identified as feminists. (wikipedia.org)
  • They took the organization's name from polling indicating that more than 50 percent of women in the U.S. identified as feminists. (bigyack.com)
Years1
Days1
  • In her book Winning Choice on Abortion , author Ann Thomson brings alive the struggle and the personalities of the many women who were instrumental in securing abortion rights in the 1960s and 1970s, the earliest days of the feminist movement in Canada. (prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org)
Research1
  • [ 1 ] The majority of research on the topic of SPT focuses on risk factors and causes, and the methods of repair to minimise short and long term morbidities. (medscape.com)
Access2
  • Mifepristone is very difficult to access, My suggestion is to distribute through friendly and mapped-out pharmacies in communities and towns where the hotline reaches. (womenonwaves.org)
  • Instead, a large part of their work is serving communities who lack access to basic reproductive services - the majority of those patients are Latino and low-income. (kclu.org)
Bill2
  • The bill saw a Judiciary Committee hearing in 2019, and its next steps are a full committee hearing and a vote - which the House Majority Leader's office confirmed will happen if H.R. 40 survives committee. (feminist.org)
  • Abortion opponents had the two-thirds majorities that will be necessary to override the veto of the bill on medical treatment for infants delivered alive during abortion procedures. (bigmoneyhall.com)
Results1
  • President and one of the founders, Eleanor Smeal, chose the name to reflect the results of the poll, implying that the majority of women are feminists. (wikipedia.org)
Services1
  • The majority of these patients consist of preventative services like pap smears, getting mamo-orders [mammogram]. (kclu.org)