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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 [...]
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