It was around 2010 that writer-actor-director Julie Proudfoot was sitting in a Starbucks at the IC station downtown, waiting for the South Shore line to take her home, when she became aware of two young couples sitting at an adjacent table. “And the males were not only saying sexist things to the young women,” Proudfoot […]
Tag: reproductive rights
Posted inFilm
Look Both Ways
Wanuri Kahiu’s Look Both Ways in other contexts might simply be a fairly inoffensive feel-good romance riff. As it is, though, the film’s lack of courage is painful and unforgivable.
Posted inArts & Culture
A provocative ad stirs debate about abortion in Natalie Moore’s new play
In The Billboard, Moore explores the nuances of abortion through intraracial lens in the face of threats from a political gadfly.
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Activists protest pro-life event at Holy Trinity Church
Attendees circled the entrance of the church holding signs and yelling chants including “Pro-life, your name’s a lie, you don’t care if women die.”
Posted inColumns & Opinion
How Bruce Rauner is trying to cripple the Democratic Party
Abortion bill HB 40, the union-busting Janus v. AFSCME case, and the Illinois governor’s unlikely coalition
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Amy Whitaker wants her patients to know that Planned Parenthood is here to stay
The medical director of Planned Parenthood of Illinois says the healthcare provider will stick with its mission, regardless of what the new president and Congressional Republicans do.
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The fastest vibrators in Chicago race for reproductive rights
Personal PAC’s pro-choice fund-raiser is kind of like a turtle race. Only with vibrators. And politics.
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Rahm promises that Chicago will remain a ‘sanctuary city’ for undocumented immigrants, and other news
Also, there’s been a huge increase in demand at Planned Parenthood.
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Chicago feminist group FURIE takes on antiabortion marchers this Sunday
Local feminist group FURIE plans a counterprotest against the Illinois March for Life this Sunday.