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Advocates Updates
- Seeking an intern for the International Division!
- Community-based Organizations: Apply to be a part of the Anti-Homophobia/Transphobia Project
- Join The Hanger Project - send a clear message that we can't go back to an era of back-alley abortions
- New article in the Parents Sex Ed Center
by Robie Harris, author of It's Perfectly Normal - Job opening: International Policy Manager
- Job opening: New Media Manager
Publications
New Publications:
Responsible Education About Life (REAL) Act
- Ban lifted for green card applicants with HIV (LA Times)
A two-decade-old rule kept those with the virus out of the U.S. Now such immigrants will be able to visit the country and apply for legal status. - Council passes pregnancy center bill (Baltimore Sun)
The Baltimore City Council on Monday approved a first-in-the-nation law that would require faith-based crisis pregnancy centers to display signs telling prospective clients that they do not provide or refer for abortion or birth control. - Health bill revives abortion groups (New York Times)
The health care debate has brought new energy to the pro-choice fight - U.S. Officials See Progress and Challenges in Fight Against AIDS (Voice of America)
The director of the U.S. National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said progress has been made in the fight against HIV/AIDS but that scientific challenges remain in developing curative therapies and a safe and effective HIV vaccine. - Gay marriage momentum stalls in liberal NY, NJ (AP)
The state-to-state march to legalize gay marriage across the left-leaning Northeast lost some of its momentum this month.
by James Wagoner, President, Advocates for Youth
The Stupak amendment, which robs women of insurance coverage for abortion, has caused all of us to mobilize to redress the damage done by this historic assault on a woman’s right to choose. While this campaign should be our immediate focus for the coming weeks, it should not prevent us from analyzing the factors that brought us to this debacle in the first place.
A few provocative questions come immediately to mind. For starters, how does a pro-choice President and pro-choice House leadership end up moving a bill that seriously undermines a woman’s legal right to abortion? Has the political arm of the pro-choice movement been so co-opted by the Democratic Party that the pro-choice constituency is not just being taken for granted, but being taken to the cleaners on key legislative issues?
Has the refusal of pro-choice leaders to hold anti-choice Democrats accountable during primaries earned the movement the dreaded “paper tiger” label thus broadcasting a clear message that you can attack pro-choice policies in congress without suffering any real political consequences?
Has the decision of pro-choice leaders to acquiesce, implicitly or explicitly, with the decision of Democrats after the 2004 elections to vigorously recruit anti-choice candidates to build the Catholic “brand” within the party, set us on the inevitable path towards marginalization?
