Boy, am I glad I didn’t pick up a copy of the Sunday Times this morning
I was meeting someone today at a newsstand and had run out of stuff to read (the wait was also longer than I’d anticipated, since he was at an entirely different newsstand, wondering why *I* hadn’t shown). I was eyeing the magazine choices, not all that thrilled with any of them. I thought briefly about [...]
...read moreWhy strip? Because it’s good for your blog!
OK, I will probably go see Juno and I’ll probably like it. The title character is apparently one of the smartest, funniest, pluckiest female protagonists in a while: a 16-year-old who’s dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, initially goes to have an abortion, then ends up deciding to carry the pregnancy to term, with a nice [...]
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Baby Bribes
I’m a little thrown by this article about “push presents” — gifts given to new moms from their partners as a reward for birthing a baby. There’s nothing wrong with giving your partner a gift, especially after she’s just been through a trying ordeal. There’s nothing wrong with thinking it’s really nice that your partner [...]
...read moreHelp Pregnant Drug-Addicts, Don’t Jail Them
A while back I wrote about Theresa Hernandez, one of many women in this country who has been prosecuted for neo-natal drug use. After a four-year ordeal, throughout which Hernandez was unable to see her children and understandably fearful of receiving a life sentence, she accepted a deal to plead guilty to second-degree murder. Theresa [...]
...read moreForced Miscarriage = Murder?
I’ve been musing over this one for a little while and I’m eager to hear what you think. Recently, a Texas Court ruled that a fetus can be murdered, but not by abortion. Texas laws allow the killing of a fetus to be prosecuted as murder, regardless of the stage of development, but the laws [...]
...read moreTwo Words: Shut Up.
This article, and the comments in response, make me want to throw something. The (white, male) author bemoans the frequency of teen pregnancy amongst the low-income, mostly non-white girls he teaches. He writes: It happens too often. A female student approaches my desk, says “Mr. Okun?”, and and whispers the two words no adult wants [...]
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Bad Ass Women’s Activist of the Week: Gutsy Abortion Provider Edition
The Bad Ass Women’s Activist of the Week is a semi-regular segment that I do over at The Curvature whenever I come across a really kick ass person who deserves some praise and recognition. With all of the bad news out there in the feminist blogosphere, I figure that news about the people who are [...]
...read more“Too young, too pregnant”
I’m not sure how one gets to be too pregnant, but that should give you some idea as to how ridiculous parts of this article are. It’s about the high teen birth rate in Texas (#1 in the nation, baby), and is unfortunately full of skewed statistics and flat-out untruths. Parts of it are actually [...]
...read moreWant to live a longer life? Don’t be pregnant in America
Sarah Blustein’s got the reasons why, especially if you’re a woman of color: Good news! if you are an ordinary mortal living in the United States, your chances of staying alive are better than ever. According to new government numbers, the rate of Americans dying in 2004 (the most recent year to be calculated) hit [...]
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