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Maja, a 27-year-old from a small town in the northeastern Polish region of Podlasie, was neither financially nor emotionally ready for another child when she found out she was pregnant.
With legal abortion in her country not being an option, she contacted a group providing underground postal access to abortion pills and took them at home while breastfeeding her 11-month-old baby.
Another woman, Anita, wanted a child but learned when she was 13 weeks pregnant that due to a congenital defect, her baby would die within a few hours of birth - if not before.
Due to a recent change in Polish law that forbids women from terminating pregnancies even in cases of severe and irreversible fetal defects, the young woman was told to wait until she miscarried.
If ever a story provided a strange snapshot of the Gubu Ireland before referenda and social change brought us kicking and screaming into the modern world, it is surely that of Dr Andrew Rynne. In the 70s, the media cast the pioneering vasectomy doctor as a kind of medical renegade, as he helped scores of Irish men avoid endless fatherhood. He prescribed the contraceptive pill to women before it was legal in Ireland. A priest called to his house and urged him to stop his work with vasectomies. His own father sought to have him excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Any interference with the Irish tendency to large families was considered borderline heretical.
gutmaker, the president of planned parenthood at the time, congratulating the president of planned parenthood and his colleagues on their new family planning pro-choice stamp. efforts like this that help further work of worldwide importance are something for which country can justly be proud. i m honored to own this first day cover and deeply appreciative of the dedication that it symbolizes. george h.w. bush writing that to planned parenthood. before he was a u.n. ambassador, mr. bush, of course, had been a member of congress. and while he was in the house, he introduced the family planning act of 1970. for his enthusiastic promotion of family planning, of contraception, of planned parenthood in particular, george h.w. bush earned himself a congressional nickname. his congressional nickname, can we put it up on the screen? his congressional nickname was rubbers, that s what they called him. and today through the magic of the republican party s
houses. it is scary about rick santorum is i keep thinking of jimmy swaggart. as soon as he starts with the social issues you run off with a hooker. forgive me for saying that. makes me a little queasy. you know what i m saying? i think that people in america in this good part of america especially the good state of michigan they go to the heart of the united states. they believe in god. it is okay to believe in god and be he prolife. i think rick pushed the envelope a little bit and struck a nerve in the way right wing that will lose them the election. judge jeanine: you don t think it had more to do with the fact that mitt romney nailed him and said you are selling yourself as a social conservative when you supported the federal family planning act and the bridge to know where and you are not as conservative fiscally as you say? no, judge, to your point, they have to stop. and i know hillary and obama went at it and went at the jugular.