Reproductive Rights
by Joyce Arthur (choice joyce)
Reprinted with permission from the author (originally published on the Blogger’s Paradise on Daily Kos)
The biggest difference by far between men and women, the only one that's really important - is that women can bear children and men cannot. I believe that difference, in one way or another, directly or indirectly,
Being a pro-feminist organization, NOMAS defers to the position of the National Organization for Women on the issue of reproductive rights of women. For each of the following issues:
- legislation about parental and/or paternal consent
- catastrophic late-term abortion
- presidential gag-rules
- public funds for contraception and/or abortion
- US Military personnel access to abortion
- US support for organizations at home and abroad that provide abortion services
- inaccessibility of abortion providers to women in substantial areas of the country
- mandatory sterilization
- religious hospitals’ refusal to provide facilities and/or services
- punitive reactions from local, state and national institutions
as well as on other issues, NOMAS affirms and supports the individual woman’s right to choose, without governmental, judicial and familial interference.
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