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In the Sometimes Good News Comes in Tiny Increments But It’s Still Good News Department (aka: The Department of SGNCITIBISGN): 1) Judge blocks Kan. law stripping Planned Parenthood of fed. funding, says law unlikely to last An incredulous federal judge on Monday rejected the state’s claim that a new Kansas statute that denied Planned Parenthood [...]
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Expect lots of extroverted, neurotic babies coming soon.
Who read NY Daily News this weekend? Did you see that article? One called “Extroverted men, neurotic women are the most fertile combination: study“? If you’re anything like me (Jewish, New Yorker, and yes, neurotic) you glanced at this and were like “Really? Then how am I not pregnant already?” But then you actually *read* [...]
...read moreDoes the Pill hurt your sex drive?
Studies point to yes (and the experience of many women points to yes). In the 1960s, there was much hue and cry that the Pill would turn women into sex fiends and put marriages in peril. But in recent decades, medical concerns about hormonal birth control have shifted to the other end of the spectrum, [...]
...read moreThinking Critically About the Pill
This interview with Laura Eldridge over at Bitch is worth a read. Eldridge is a feminist writer, and has been an outspoken opponent of hormonal birth control. There’s a lot she says that I disagree with, but I think this point is well taken: It’s hard for anyone to be critical of the Pill, even [...]
...read moreTarget Women: Birth Control
Note to self: just post these as soon as they come out, because Sarah Haskins is always funny as hell. Doot-doo-doo-doot!
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Anti-Choicers Defeat Birth Control Bill in South Dakota
A South Dakota bill that would have given women easier access to contraception and taken substantial steps to decrease the unintended pregnancy and abortion rate was defeated in the state senate — by “pro-life” legislators. The Birth Control Protection Act said South Dakotans have the freedom to obtain and use safe and effective methods of [...]
...read moreAnti-choicer says birth control pills “don’t work;” newspapers don’t bother to correct her.
This is what I mean when I say that the media is failing to do its job. An anti-choice activist is quoted in an AP article run in the Denver Post as saying: “Let’s face it, they’re in the business to kill babies for profit,” she said. “First and foremost, they get young girls hooked [...]
...read moreIf you go to NYU…
Tune into NYU-TV today at 4. They’re doing a piece on the recent hike in birth control prices, and I was interviewed for it. I don’t live in NYU housing, and I don’t even have a TV, so I’ll be missing the broadcast. Someone tell me how it is — they scheduled the interview with [...]
...read morePricier contraceptives for college women
Well this is fantastic. Prices of oral contraceptives are doubling and tripling on college campuses. While $30-45 might not sound ridiculously expensive — after all, you are preventing pregnancy — that’s a lot of money for a student living on a tight budget, especially if they’re used to only paying $10 or $15. My birth [...]
...read moreBack Up Your Birth Control!
With Emergency Contraception. Feministing has more.
...read moreWhy I’m Pro-Choice – Blogging for Choice Part 2
I am pro-choice because I believe women’s lives matter. I am pro-choice because I think women themselves are the best people to decide when and if they get pregnant, give birth, and raise children. I am pro-choice because I believe that the right to control your own reproduction is a fundamental right, and is protected [...]
...read moreSo, what do you hate yourself for?
Jill asked this question on Alas, and I’m ganking it and pretending that it’s an actual post by me: Moving away from the highly predictable “Fat is unhealthy! Let me come in here and explain how unhealthy it is because you have probably never, ever heard this before! I’m doing you a favor!” conversation, I [...]
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