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This article, and the comments in response, make me want to throw something. The (white, male) author bemoans the frequency of teen pregnancy amongst the low-income, mostly non-white girls he teaches. He writes:

It happens too often. A female student approaches my desk, says "Mr. Okun?", and and whispers the two words no adult wants to hear from a teenager: "I'm pregnant." I want to scream, I want to cry, I want to shake her with anger. What have you done? Life is not hard enough already? Is it over, have you given up? What about finishing high school? What about college? What about your own dreams? What about enjoying the last of your own childhood? How can you parent a child when you are just a child yourself? How will you support your baby, how will you support yourself? Where is the man, will he be here next year? Will I see you and your baby coldly waiting alone for a city bus that will not come? Please look me in the eye and tell me you know what you have done.

Anti-choice activists want us to believe that they're about preserving life, and that they care about babies. The truth is, they don't. "Pro-life" policies kill women. They killed Olga Reyes. And they'll kill tens of thousands of women this year, just like they did the year before and the year before that.

Hi there -- I'm Jill, a YP4 guest-blogger for the month of November. I run the progressive blog Feministe, where I write with two co-bloggers and a bevy of guest-bloggers about feminism, liberal politics, reproductive justice, civil rights, LGBT rights, and whatever else interests us. I'm a law student at NYU, and I'm currently studying abroad in Hamburg, Germany.

I'll be shooting for at least one post per day over here. I plan on writing about the reproductive justice movement quite a big, so as an introduction, here's a post I wrote on this year's anniversary of Roe v. Wade -- I think it pretty clearly spells out why reproductive rights are crucial and non-negotiable:

Hello, YP4!

I was delighted to accept the invitation to blog with you when Jamia Wilson,

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I just had to share this video with everyone.  The anti-choice woman in the video is South Dakota's very own Leslee Unruh, who founded the National Abstinence Clearinghouse, and spearheaded the (unsuccessful) near-total ban on abortions in South Dakota.

She's really as crazy as she looks, I promise.