OMG – I love dogs in costumes. I think more people should hand out little dog biscuits with the trick-or-treat candy, because little dogs like Halloween, too, you know.
On the pro-choice front, here’s your Friday click list to kick off the weekend!
When it Rains, it Pours . . . And Then There’s [...]
Just when I begin to get complacent about the constant struggle that women face across the globe for reproductive rights, stories like this are thrust into my consciousness, not soon to leave. Tegan Leach, a 19 year old girl from Queensland, Australia and her boyfriend, 21 year old Sergie Brennan face serious jail time for [...]
On Tuesday I posted Jimmy Carter’s brave op-ed distancing himself from the Southern Baptist Convention on the Moral Courage Project blog. The post prompted some interesting dialog on the site. I was particularly struck by the words of Erin:
Although it seems that disassociating with an organization that discriminates against women is the right thing to [...]
In Gloria Feldt’s The War on Choice, the right wing’s attack on sex education is put under the microscope. They have started small at the local school board level and worked their way up to the federal level. The result has been that abstinence is the only sex education that American students receive [...]
Jury duty continues this week, but at least I’ve got my pro-choice reading materials to keep me occupied during breaks. Here’s a few to get your week started off right.
India to Create Abortion Registry to Reduce Sex Selection – Medical News Today
Blue Dog Democrats Won’t Support Health Care Reform – NPR
Sotomayor on Gay Rights: [...]
Well ain’t that something? A new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health shows that teen pregnancy rates, which had been on a 14 year decline, have been steadily on the increase since 2006. The study attributes the rise to a decrease in contraceptive and condom usage. According to an article in [...]
MTV has been a presence in teens’ lives since it’s creation in 1981. That’s nearly 30 years of influence. Now, in my opinion, MTV used to be much cooler back when Real World was in Seattle and they showed hours of full length music videos (and therefore living up to its name as Music Television). [...]
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