Poli Psy: “A Father’s Tears”
Published December 6, 2007
The brochure is celestial blue with wafting clouds. Its cover is darkest, suggesting a lowering storm; each successive panel grows lighter. The logo is a dove. Last week’s two-day San Francisco conference “Reclaiming Fatherhood: A Multifaceted Examination of Men Dealing with Abortion” clearly hoped to move men in a heavenly direction. But the presentations’ titles [...]
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Poli Psy: “Our Bodies, Ourselves, Again”
Published April 26, 2007
Within minutes of the Supreme Court’s April 18 ruling in Gonzalez v. Carhart, which upheld the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, emails poured into my inbox from feminist and pro-choice organizations. NARAL Pro-Choice America asked me to forward my friends a message starting, “I’m sending you an email because I want you to help [...]
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Poli Psy: “Newborn Tragedies”
Published August 30, 2006
In August, while the headlines reported the mounting deaths of already-born Lebanese and Israeli children, a bill to save American “children,” both “pre-born” and pregnant, moved toward passage. Senate bill 403, the Child Custody Protection Act, criminalizes the transport of a pregnant minor across state lines to get an abortion, if the transporter isn’t the [...]
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Poli Psy: Hard Right
Published June 22, 2005
A minor seeking an abortion must show “she understands that some women have experienced severe remorse and regret” following the procedure. So wrote newly confirmed Federal Appeals Court Justice Priscilla Owen. It was 2000, and Owen was on the Texas Supreme Court hearing its first case under the state’s Parental Notification Act. To be excused [...]