...or a couple of hot twins?

Donated, and intending to volunteer in my state. Never in my life thought abortion would be under the kind of threat that it is now, and it scares and disgusts and blows my fucking mind. Unlike most social issues that, with time, advance in acceptance amongst the general public, with abortion, we are actually moving backwards.

As IF what we REALLY want is LOADS AND LOADS MORE UNWANTED BABIES in this world, that we force the mothers - often dead broke teenagers - to have. Rotten, idiotic, immoral idea.

Yes, and thanks for the twins link. We fucking need more men with floppy, floppy hair.

Also, you can opt to GIVE MONTHLY. I just did - been meaning to sign back up for ages (used to give monthly, then got laid off). Most people can afford $10, $15 or $20 a month when you consider what you spend on yer daily morning coffee. Worth it alone for the good feelin' it gives!

The twin were definitely hot, in that almost ridiculous way. Not a fan of the incestuous eroticism, though.

Re: Thing 1, a large pool of small donors also helps non-profits demonstrate their impact and legitimacy when courting the big donors, so that's another bonus to giving what you can.

Yes! Join up and give monthly! I joined as soon as I got my First Real Job With Health Insurance, as PP had been my main source of health care up until that point, all sliding scale and lovely, and wanted to give back. I give $15 a month to the PP Action Fund (national campaign), and $15 a month to PP of the Great NW. They will not and do not scoff at whatever amount you give!

LW & interested parties: you can always phone bank for either Planned Parenthood or your parent's/ your favorite Democratic state assembly/senate in Wi with your cell. I do it all the time to help friends in local primaries. In the mean time, volunteer locally for woman like Kshama Sawant here in Seattle running this year.

Thanks Dan! The women's reproductive care movement desperately needs charismatic leaders to encourage the next generation to political activism. Young men and women need to be involved and make their voices heard. They deserve access to ALL reproductive care and need to make that clear to our politicians and judges.

Please continue to be a champion for women's reproductive health and thank you for addressing it in your column.

Kind of hoping women just pack up and leave these regressive states and come live in WA. TX and WI would be reduced to a couple of giant, lonely, desparate sausage fests.

So important to give. They are trying to take women's healthcare back to the dark ages.

@11...

I needed (and wanted, and had) an abortion because my birth control failed (and not because I used it incorrectly. It was an IUD... I am the 1%!).

Making assumptions about women's motivations for their reproductive decision making is a key feature of anti-choice rhetoric. It's simply not true that "no woman "wants" an abortion"... I wanted mine very badly. Calling my decision "a last-ditch act of desperation to terminate a pregnancy she doesn't want to complete" is simply wrong... it was a thoughtful decision I made with my partner, and one that I have always felt extremely comfortable with.

Of course no one wants an abortion when they're not pregnant, but that's never the context in which a woman chooses abortion.

I am a gay man, and I am a longtime supporter (emotionally and, when I can, financially) of Planned Parenthood.

First, though I will never get pregnant, nor will I ever accidentally get someone else pregnant, there are women in my life who face the issues that Planned Parenthood helps address. There are women in my life who rely on birth control. A few have had abortions. Many have relied on reproductive services to help them get pregnant. (Family planning works both ways.)

Secondly, I understand how homophobia is closely tied to misogyny. Gay men are "lesser" because they are perceived as "woman-like," "feminine," or "less than a man." Gay issues go hand in hand with with feminist issues in a psychological sense.

Thirdly, there's an extremely close association between gay right and women's rights in a legal sense. Many gay legal issues, like sodomy laws, have to do with the right to control our own bodies and the right to privacy -- issues that strike to the heart of the abortion debate. And many legal battles on gay rights have been argued on the basis of gender bias: by proscribing the gender of the person I'm allowed to marry, you're discriminating on the basis of their sex, and mine.

When I was in college, I did a research paper for what was then the Lesbian Rights Project (now the National Center for Lesbian Rights). Despite what the name might imply, their work then and now also included advocating for the rights of gay men. My paper was on the close association between abortion and gay rights -- e.g., why gay men should be concerned about keeping abortion safe and legal. Wish I still had the paper, though I think I'm summed up its points more succinctly here.

@7: Jesus, judge much? She's trying to help now, and she was not an opponent or an obstruction beforehand.

Donated. Thanks, Dan.