Questioning the Efficacy of HIV Home Testing

Tuesday, 1 December 2009, 14:07 | Category : Abortion
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A recent article in Poz Magazine about HIV take home tests has me intrigued, and also puzzled. For starters, I didn’t realize that there was even an option to do an HIV test at home. But since November of 2005, the FDA has been considering the possibility of allowing HIV tests to be [...]

Not a RIGHT, but an obligation, to fight.

Our predecessors risked everything to protect a woman’s right to choose. If we want, we can defeat the Stupak amendment.
I am reading an inspiring book, Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California. From free speech rights to the gay rights movement, the book recounts numerous [...]

Friday Click List

Dr. Susan Wicklund Blames Protesters For Dr. Tiller’s Death – West Virgina Public Broadcasting
Why I’m a Clinic Escort – Abortion Clinic Escort Blog
New AZ Law Could Limit Access to Plan B – Daily Wildcat
Coming Out in Middle School – New York Times
5 Ways to Save Money on Birth Control – US News & World Report
South [...]

Will Generic Plan B Actually Increase Access?

Thursday, 10 September 2009, 7:45 | Category : Birth Control
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This summer the FDA approved the generic version of Plan B, the emergency contraception pill, and ruled that the pill should be available to women 17 and older over the counter. A recent article in Ms. Magazine praised the decision, stating that the generic form of Plab B, called Next Choice, will go a [...]

Wednesday Click List

Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 5:43 | Category : Click List
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Smart Girls’ Guide to Good Sex – Huff Po
Washington Abortion Clinic Celebrates 30th Anniversary – Seattle Times
Abortion Pill Hasn’t Broadened Access – Reuters
The Choices Abortion Providers Face – Washington Post
Family Planning Facts – National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association

Military Spouses, Freedom & Choice

There are exceptions, of course–factions of the anti-choice movement that are also anti-war, anti-military. But by and large, the same people that have no problem with overturning Roe, or with making sure that abortions are not funded by federal tax dollars, or with protesting at abortion clinics, or with limiting abortion in any way they can, do, by golly, Support Our Troops.