There’s been a lot of buzz about IUD’s in the blogosphere this past week. I’ve only known one person who has used an IUD for birth control, so I am immensely curious about why the IUD has become so popular as of late. Kate Klonick at Slate writes about the economic benefits of [...]
While volunteering as a clinic escort, I have listened to anti-choice protesters try to scary patients by telling them that abortion causes breast cancer. They shout it all day long, and they even have it on the pamphlets they try to hand to people as they walk by the clinic. The pamphlet encourages [...]
In a recent Huffington Post piece, Louise Marie Roth, PhD., tells the horrifying story of a mother who, during a normal, full-term birth, refused to have a c-section–against medical advice. The mother (V.M.), was accused by hospital staff of being irrational and erratic. Her refusal to have a c-section (an invasive procedure she [...]
Rape Survivors Forced to Pay for Their Own Exams – Feminist Campus
A Man Who Trusted Women – Ms.
Scott Roeder’s Hearing Brought Anti-Choicers Out of Woodwork – Jezebel
Parental Notification Law to Go Into Effect in Illinois – Planned Parenthood
After the jump, there’s an Ode to Herbert the Pervert from Family Guy.
Guest writer Carolyn Marie Fugit is a native Kansan involved in social justice for over a decade. In addition to volunteering for ProKanDo, she has worked extensively in LGBT rights advocacy. Since Dr. Tiller’s assassination, there has been renewed interest in Kansas for pro-choice advocacy, and she is working to organize that energy to defend [...]
Uganda has moved to ban female circumcision with support from President Yoweri Museveni. The law will award the death penalty to anyone who performs on a circumcision on a girl who ends up dying from the process.
Female genital circumcision (FGC), also often referred to as female genital cutting or mutilation, happens in some communities in [...]
The Feminist Majority Foundation and RH Reality Check have teamed up to take a look inside the crisis pregnancy center (CPC) movement. This short film highlights the gross misinformation that CPC’s provide clients. They tell women who come to them that abortion causes breast cancer and that women who have abortions are 154% [...]
A judge declared at a Tuesday hearing that there is enough evidence against Scott Roeder to move forward to trial. Roeder is accused of killing Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider from Kansas. As I noted yesterday, Roeder is unfortunately not the first person to murder an abortion provider. Paul Hill assassinated [...]
Cue the cheesy porn music (bom chicka wah wah), ‘cuz I’m throwing some sexy links your way to get an early start on the weekend. “So I hear you need deine cable repaired, ja?” (Bonus points if you can name the film.)
Coming Out BDSM: The Upsides & Downsides – Sexgenderbody
Fisting Negativity – Essin [...]
Today marks the 15 year anniversary of the assassination of Dr. John Bayard Britton, a Florida abortion provider, and Britton’s his body guard James Herman Barrett. Dr. Britton and Mr. Barrett were murdered by Paul Hill, an anti-choice fanatic. According to a 1994 story in the Washington Post:
Britton, who authorities said had received [...]
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