The Tutt Library at Colorado College has established a massive database containing an extensive listing of pro-choice resources and outlets for students to utilize.
According to the site, titled: “Women’s Health, Reproduction, and Abortion Issues,” there are several different sections for students to utilize, including sections on “Taking Action,” “Sexual Politics,” “Reports,” and “Challenges to Women’s Reproductive Rights in 2011.” The various sites feature a variety of links to pro-choice outlets and media organizations, which gives the Tutt’s Library resource an obvious pro-choice bias.
For example, the section “Taking Action” features a link to the site Government Free VJJ, which is an organization that encourages individuals to knit or crochet a uterus or vagina and mail them to male elected officials, along with the message: “Hands off my uterus! Here’s one of your own!” The section also features a link to Pro-Choice America Take Action, also known as NARAL, along with a blurb on the importance of taking action for pro-choice beliefs.
“We need you to take action on your pro-choice beliefs,” the guideline reads. “Every day, anti-choice activists work to take away our right to choose. Pro-choice Americans can never stop standing up for access to abortion, birth control, and sex education.”
Another site featured in the database is the Trust Women PAC, a group that seeks to expand and increase the availability of abortion clinics in the Midwest and South, and who measure their success by measuring “the number of women in this region who can easily access abortion.”
The section on “Challenges to Women’s Reproductive Rights in 2011” features attacks on a number of Republican politicians who took actions to protect the sanctity of life following the GOP’s historical wins in the 2010 midterm elections. The site attacks Energy Secretary Rick Perry for signing an ultrasound bill, while he was governor of Texas, that gives women the option to see their unborn child before deciding on an abortion. They also attacked the passage of a House bill that eliminated funding for Planned Parenthood and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., introducing an amendment to partially override the Obama administration’s contraceptive coverage rules (portions of which were later struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.)
Finally, at the end of the resource list, the library provides a number of links to pro-abortion media and research outlets including the Reproductive Rights Blog, the Guttmacher Institute, and even the far-left news outlet Salon.
