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This song tells women that no one else own your body, mind, nothing! You have the power over yourself

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SAYGRACE - You Don't Own Me ft. G-Eazy (Official Video)

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In this article by ROBIN ABCARIAN

states how not allowing women have an abortion, or allowing them to have access to birth control is slavery.

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Willie Parker is a 54-year old physician, nattily dressed, standing in the sumptuous backyard of a large home in the flats of Beverly Hills. Lavender jacaranda blossoms from a nearby tree float in the jumbo swimming pool, as if strewn there by a particularly decadent florist.

Here, Parker is worlds away from his workaday life, which takes place in the besieged abortion clinics of Mississippi and Alabama, states that have done their utmost to regulate abortion out of existence. He is an outspoken abortion doctor driven by his deep Christian faith, and as such, has become an unlikely new hero of the abortion rights movement.

"I believe that as an abortion provider, I am doing God's work," writes Parker in his new memoir, "Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice." "I am protecting women's rights, their human right to decide their futures for themselves, and to live their lives as they see fit."

That is why he's been invited to California on this lovely Tuesday evening. Parker has come from Alabama to accept a Person of the Year award from a 26-year-old abortion rights group that is not famous, but certainly deserves to be.

The group is the Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project, or WRRAP. Founded 26 years ago by Joyce Schorr, a former sales executive for Reynolds, WRRAP gives money to women who can't afford to pay for their abortions. (Previous winners include Gloria Steinem, Dr. George Tiller, Sarah Weddington ... and Kelsey Grammer, who was for abortion rights before he was against them.)

Since the early 1990s, Schorr estimates, the group has helped 40,000 women, chipping in relatively small sums, usually between $200 and $500.

"The women we help are very, very poor," said Schorr, who owns an entertainment company with her husband, Arny Schorr, a former Rhino Records executive. "Everything is a struggle. It's hard for them to find transportation. The last thing they need is another child to take care of.''

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Parker grew up poor and fatherless in Birmingham, Ala. At 15, under the tutelage of a coach who was a Pentecostal minister, he became a born-again Christian. The first member of his family to attend college, he carried a Bible door to door in his dorm, spreading the gospel of Jesus. After he became an OB-GYN, he refused to perform abortions for religious reasons, but would refer women to doctors who did.

Eventually, though, as he practiced at the Queen's Medical Center in Hawaii, he started to see abortion as a critical part of his patients' care, its restriction as a profound injustice.

One day, as he contemplated the parable of the Good Samaritan, he had an epiphany: "It was like a punch, all at once in my spiritual gut," he writes in his memoir. "The Scripture came alive and it spoke to me. For the Samaritan, the person in need was a fallen traveler. For me, it was a pregnant woman. It became not: Is it right for me, as a Christian, to perform abortions? But rather, is it right for me, as a Christian to refuse to do them? Now I saw, without doubt, fear or ambivalence, that it was appropriate, even ethical for me to provide this care."

In his book and in conversations - including a recent appearance on "The Daily Show" - Parker compares forcing a woman to bear a child to slavery. It's generally unwise to compare anything that is not slavery to slavery, but Parker is unbowed.

"I know it's a powerful analogy to draw, and people are skittish," he told me, "but if you look at what was evil about slavery and what happens to women when they are forced to give birth, it's apt. When we make fetuses 'people' and demand that women be subordinated in servitude to them... women become a means to an end. It's no different from slavery."

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The conventional wisdom is that to be devoutly religious is to be antiabortion - but like Parker's epiphany, Schorr's impulse to help women obtain abortions also has spiritual roots, though perhaps in a more roundabout way.

Her moment came in 1991, as she watched an episode of the "Phil Donahue Show.'' His guests were Quaker women who ran a kind of underground railroad for women needing abortions in the years before the Supreme Court legalized abortion. "In 1969, when I was in college, my best friend had almost died from an illegal abortion," Schorr told me. "It just triggered me: I can't let this happen. We need to help these women get abortions."
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She approached the National Council of Jewish Women in Los Angeles and was given permission to start WRRAP under its auspices. Four years later, WRRAP became an independent nonprofit, run by Schorr, who has never collected a salary. About 50 volunteers help out.

There is no physical location; two volunteers take calls from clinics for five hours each day. "We fund anyone who calls us," Schorr said. In the beginning, she said, she took calls from desperate women, but discovered it was far more efficient to have clinics call on behalf of patients. (Patients - and donors - can make direct contact through the group's website.)

Until recently, WRRAP's annual budget had been about $35,000. "We finally caught the eye of some very big donors,'' she said. In the last two years, these anonymous philanthropists have given a total of $550,000.

The money will enable Schorr, who at 65 is nearing retirement, to finally hire an executive director, and put a succession plan in place.

The abortion debate in this country waxes and wanes. The fundamental precept enshrined in Roe vs. Wade, that women have a fundamental right to control their own bodies, still stands.

But we appear to be in a moment when the antiabortion forces are ascendant, both in statehouses, which are defunding critically important abortion providers like Planned Parenthood, and at the federal level, where the Trump administration is systematically dismantling America's commitment to family planning programs around the globe.

Heroes like Willie Parker and Joyce Schorr, and the people who work in the trenches with them every day, give me reason to believe that no matter how hard some folks try to turn back the clock on women's rights, the antiabortion mission is doomed to fail.

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Forcing women to have children is akin to slavery, says a devoutly Christian abortion doctor

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Willie Parker is a 54-year old physician, nattily dressed, standing in the sumptuous backyard of a large home in the flats of Beverly Hills. Lavender jacaranda blossoms from a nearby tree float in the jumbo swimming pool, as if strewn there by a particularly decadent florist.

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Women's Reproductive Rights aren't just Withdrawn from the Government 

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Women's Reproductive Rights aren't just Withdrawn from the Government 

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In this political cartoon, it explains how not only is the government taking away our reproductive rights, so are other religions.

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Bill Nye the Science Guy Advocates for your Rights

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Bill Nye the Science Guy Advocates for your Rights

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In this video by Big Think, they have Bill Nye explain the science behind how conception happens. He explains also how birth control is needed not just to avoid pregnancy, also many more health benefits.

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Bill Nye: Can We Stop Telling Women What to Do With Their Bodies?

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The Science Guy argues that most anti-abortion legislation is derived from outdated beliefs that predate smart science by fifty centuries. Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/bill-nye-on-abortion-and-womens-rights Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Transcript - Many, many, many, many more hundreds of eggs are fertilized than become humans.

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A Life if a Women Had NO Reproductive Rights 

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A Life if a Women Had NO Reproductive Rights 

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This article by Alice Driver states how Trumps comment about how there should be "some form of punishment" for those that have abortions and many budget cuts from the teen pregnancy prevention program (although lowering the teen pregnancies over the years). The article continues to state how all over the world abortions are illegal, and cause many to hurt themselves just because they do not have the money, nor rights that they deserve.

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what women's lives are like when abortion is a crime (opinion)  - cnn

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What women's lives are like when abortion is a crime

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After interviewing female inmates in El Salvador, where abortion is a crime, Alice Driver warns that the US might not be so different, considering the recent House vote to criminalize abortion after 20 weeks.

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Trump Against Birth Control and LGBT Rights 

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Trump Against Birth Control and LGBT Rights 

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This article by David Crary and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar explains how Trumps new law, if passed, states if anyone wants to be on any type of birth control, they must attain their bosses' permission first. This is an example of how women need to fight for their own permission to be on birth control, or not.

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In a one-two punch elating religious conservatives, President Donald Trump's administration is allowing more employers to opt out of no-cost birth control for workers and issuing sweeping religious-freedom directions that could override many anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people and others.

At a time when Trump finds himself embattled on many fronts, the two directives - issued almost simultaneously on Friday - demonstrated the president's eagerness to retain the loyalty of social conservatives who make up a key part of his base. Leaders of that constituency were exultant.

"President Trump is demonstrating his commitment to undoing the anti-faith policies of the previous administration and restoring true religious freedom," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council.

Liberal advocacy groups, including those supporting LGBT and reproductive rights, were outraged.

"The Trump administration is saying to employers, 'If you want to discriminate, we have your back,'" said Fatima Goss Graves, president of National Women's Law Center.

Her organization is among several that are planning to challenge the birth-control rollback in court. The American Civil Liberties Union filed such a lawsuit less than three hours after the rules were issued.

"The Trump administration is forcing women to pay for their boss' religious beliefs," said ACLU senior staff attorney Brigitte Amiri. "We're filing this lawsuit because the federal government cannot authorize discrimination against women in the name of religion or otherwise."

The Democratic attorneys general of California and Massachusetts filed similar suits later Friday.

Both directives had been in the works for months, with activists on both sides of a culture war on edge about the timing and the details.

The religious-liberty directive, issued by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, instructs federal agencies to do as much as possible to accommodate those who claim their religious freedoms are being violated. The guidance effectively lifts a burden from religious objectors to prove that their beliefs about marriage or other topics that affect various actions are sincerely held.

"Except in the narrowest circumstances, no one should be forced to choose between living out his or her faith and complying with the law," Sessions wrote.

In what is likely to be one of the more contested aspects of the document, the Justice Department states that religious organizations can hire workers based on religious beliefs and an employee's willingness "to adhere to a code of conduct." Many conservative Christian schools and faith-based agencies require employees to adhere to moral codes that ban sex outside marriage and same-sex relationships, among other behavior.

The Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian law firm, called it "a great day for religious freedom." But JoDee Winterhof of the Human Rights Campaign, a national LGBT-rights group, depicted the two directives as "an all-out assault, on women, LGBT people and others" as the administration fulfilled a "wish list" of the religious right.

The new policy on contraception, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, allows more categories of employers, including publicly traded companies, to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women by claiming religious or moral objections - another step in rolling back President Barack Obama's health care law that required most companies to cover birth control at no additional cost.

Employers with religious or moral qualms will also be able to cover some birth control methods, and not others. Experts said that could interfere with efforts to promote modern long-acting implantable contraceptives, such as IUDs, which are more expensive.

The top Democrat in the House of Representatives, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, said the birth-control rollback was despicable.

"This administration's contempt for women reaches a new low with this appalling decision to enable employers and health plans to deny women basic coverage for contraception," she said.

On the Republican side, however, House Speaker Paul Ryan welcomed the decision, calling it "a landmark day for religious liberty."

The new policy took effect on Friday, but its impact won't be known immediately and may not be dramatic.

"I can't imagine that many employers are going to be willing to certify that they have a moral objection to standard birth control methods," said Dan Mendelson, president of the consulting firm Avalere Health.

Nonetheless, he worried that the new rules would set a precedent for undermining basic health benefits required under federal law. The administration has estimated that some 200 employers who have already voiced objections to the Obama-era policy would qualify for the expanded opt-out, and that 120,000 women would be affected.

Since contraception became a covered preventive benefit, the share of female employees paying with their own money for birth control pills has plunged to 3 percent, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Many Catholic hospitals now rely on an Obama-era workaround under which the government pays for the cost of birth control coverage. That workaround can continue under the new rules.

Despite that workaround, there have been extensive legal battles waged by religious institutions and other parties challenging the birth-control mandate. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops hailed the new policy as a "return to common sense" that would enhance "peaceful coexistence" between church and state.

Doctors' groups that were instrumental in derailing Republican plans to repeal Obama's health law outright expressed their dismay.

The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said the new policy could reverse the recent progress in lowering the nation's rate of unintended pregnancies.

"Instead of fulfilling its mission 'to enhance and protect the health and well-being of all Americans,' HHS leaders under the current administration are focused on turning back the clock on women's health," said the organization's president, Dr. Haywood Brown.

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Crary reported from New York. Associated Press writers Sadie Gurman and Eric Tucker in Washington and Religion Writer Rachel Zoll in New York contributed to this report.

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Trump's one-two punch hits birth control, LGBT rights

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In a one-two punch elating religious conservatives, President Donald Trump's administration is allowing more employers to opt out of no-cost birth control for workers and issuing sweeping religious-freedom directions that could override many anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people and others.

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Ivy is a proud 35 year old that has dedicated her life to fight for women that can't fight for themselves, especially when it comes to reproductive rights. She has attended many protests and continues to do so until she cannot physically go to the protests,and can no longer help fight this cause. Ivy has 3 kids and needs to be on birth control due to health issues with her menstrual cycle.