Restrictive Abortion Laws Causing Women to Return to Back Alleys

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-06-03/abortions-return-to-back-alleys-amid-restrictive-new-state-laws/?cid=hp:mainpromo3

Kansas Legislator Compares Rape to having a spare when you get a flat tire

What is it about Kansas that attracts so many theocratic nutcases?

http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2011/05/pete_degraaf_rape_flat_tire.php

Ten Worst States to be a Woman

Many are in the south but Indiana makes the list due to their recent defunding of Planned Parenthood.

http://www.alternet.org/news/150878/10_worst_states_to_be_a_woman/?page=entire

Link to Rachel Maddow's great expose of the lunatic fringe and their assault on a woman's right to choose

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/38431_Rachel_Maddow_on_the_Violent_Anti-Abortion_Movement

Anti choice often equals anti-contraception

This great commentary from the NY times by Gail Collins highlights the common phenomenon that anti-choice people are also frequently anti-contraception.  Bottom line, it's all about controlling women and our sexuality.

http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/opinion/14collins.html?sort=oldest&offset=5