Tag: Abortion

• On Death, Patriarchy & the Anti-Choice Movement

  

  Death-phobia pervades many a political and social movement, but few have perfected the manipulation of it quite as adeptly as the “pro-life movement.” Their rhetoric invokes death at almost every turn. Aside from the most blatant messaging which explicitly likens abortion to murder, they also invoke death-phobia in the way they legislate abortion. Caroline Reilly is…

  Death and the Maiden

  09/01/2017

  Caroline Reilly

  Abortion, America, Caroline Reilly, Deadmaidens, Death, Death Positive, Donald Trump, Law, Mike Pence, Planned Parenthood, Politics, Pro-Choice, Reproductive Justice, Rights, USA, Women

• Best of 2016

  The subject of women and death continued to make frequent headlines this year, as well as issues concerning gender, identity and death, reproductive rights and an examination of our complex and ever-changing relationship to our own mortality. Here’s a recap of what 2016 had to offer from our co-founder Sarah Chavez.

  Death and the Maiden

  03/01/2017

  Sarah Troop

  Abortion, Culture, Death and the Maiden, Death Positive, Feminism, Grief, History, Loss, Science, social justice, Society, Spiritualism

• What The Texas Fetal Remains Ruling Really Means and How You Can Take Action

  Last Monday, after the Texas State Department of Health Services announced the addition of the word ‘cremation’ to their list of approved methods of disposition for the remains of an abortion or miscarriage, headlines were quick to appear suggesting a forced linkage between certain women’s health services and those of the funeral industry. Still in…

  Death and the Maiden

  06/12/2016

  Guest Post

  Abortion, Burial Services, Cremation, Deadmaidens, Death, Education, Emotional, Fetal Remains, Financial, Funeral, Health Care, Law, Legislation, Miscarriage, Pro-Choice, Regulations, Reproductive Justice, Rights, Texas, Women