In February 2014, Facebook made the startling announcement that they would provide 58 gender choices for their users to choose from. The typical identities such as male or female, heterosexual, gay or lesbian can be found on the list. But there are numerous other obscure options such as �Pangender� and �Two-Spirit.� When this �buffet-style approach� to gender becomes available to Facebook users, it places biology as secondary and allows users to describe themselves by however they �feel like� at the time.
Last week Planned Parenthood of Arizona announced it was closing its Yuma clinic, located in the southwest corner of the state, near both the California and Mexico borders.
Not to worry, PPAZ plans to hire a roving reproductive needs administrator to schedule abortions via iPad.
PP’s Yuma facility had committed medical abortions�until 2011, when a new law�went into effect�mandating that only physicians could dispense�mifepristone�(ie.,�RU-486), not nurses or medical assistants.
Apparently the clinic could not sustain itself without the financial help of kill pills. PPAZ CEO�Bryan�Howard said it was down to 200 patients a year.
Now is the time to reopen the conversation about Hyde and abortion access: the public and the administration have been clear in their support of reproductive rights and affordable access to health care. We have a long way to go and a hard history to overcome, but we cannot back down. We must ensure that all services, including abortion, are affordable in order to secure people�s reproductive rights and ability to make decisions.
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN As always, we welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com. MN Citizens Concerned for Life addresses the question of whether abortion should be allowable in the case of a terminal prenatal diagnosis.