Feminists For Choice

As I have said before–real reproductive choice includes the right of women to have and raise their children out of poverty. There are, of course, a number of obstacles to this, from the wage gap to higher rates of poverty among women, access to affordable medical care (including reproductive health care and birth control), disparities [...]

Shanman’s recent guest post about Nadya Suleman, “the Octomom,” got me thinking about media portrayals of single mothers. Kate Gosselin, of “Jon and Kate Plus 8,” has recently joined the ranks of single moms. She, too, has a passel of children to take care of – and I wonder if she, like Suleman, will be [...]