Reproductive Rights

While the Big Man on Catholic Campus was being Fawned Over in the US...

2008-05-01T11:08:20Z

countless women across the world were being denied access to reproductive and medical services due to his church's policies (i'm just highlighting the CC in this instance, however, they it is certainly not the only culprit) faith-based policies ...

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"If I can't f*ck, it's not my revolution."

2008-04-11T02:27:10Z

This article is great for many reasons: I'm not going to say who's playing top or bottom in that statement, but feminism and porn have been like Crisco and condoms for decades, and feminist positions (ahem) on porn are diverse. They often boil do...

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Once More, With Feeling - or - Stay the Hell Away from My Reproductive Rights!

2008-04-10T00:30:34Z

“I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned,” --- Sen. John McCain, at a campaign stop in Spartanburg, South Carolina 2/07 so, i read this article, which i've included at the end - which basically states that if women want to re...

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No More Brain Surgery, Plzzzzz

2008-03-23T17:52:41Z

the union contract renewed and in it the rx co-pay went from $20 to $40 .. which sux cuz i'm on alot of medication for the rest of my days, like it or not .. last time i saw my neuro i explained to him how i'm still having alotta break through ...

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i'll donate 10% of my paycheck to planned parenthood if they use it to sterilize fundies

2008-02-29T22:30:47Z

I always thought I was pretty well-informed on the wildy fallacious and increasingly bizarre arguments employed by the anti-choice lobby. But somehow the one that claims it's all a plot by neo-Nazis to eliminate black people from the gene pool se...

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Georgia county makes the switch

2008-02-25T23:33:42Z

Clark Country, GA has decided to switch their tactics. Currently, an "abstinence only" curriculum is taught in the high school. The country also has a 4.5% teen pregnancy rate, which is higher than the state average. In order to try to combat thes...

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Abortion law says the fetus is more valuable, according to logic

2008-02-23T16:34:12Z

It seems curious that if I was 28 weeks pregnant and presented to my doctor saying there was no way I wanted to continue with the pregnancy, the doctor would not be able to refer me for termination unless I met the restrictive criteria which have...

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Stop the presses! Women are obscene!

2008-02-19T03:24:52Z

So Grover Cleveland High School (in Reseda, California) has its panties in a twist because some rascals at the student newspaper published a labeled diagram of a vagina as part of a Valentine's Day spread (tee hee). Predictably, parents complained...

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Feticide?

2008-02-18T22:25:51Z

In this article, the term "feticide" is used to refer to the killing of a fetus, as occurs during abortion or miscarriage. I greatly dislike this term, for it seems to equate "feticide" with words like "genocide" or "homocide," which are inarguabl...

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Two women make a baby.

2008-02-14T05:21:58Z

Death of the father: British scientists discover how to turn women's bone marrow into sperm By FIONA MACRAE - More by this author » Last updated at 09:28am on 31st January 2008 British scientists are ready to turn female bone marrow into sperm, c...

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