Posted in Feminism, Gender, United States on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In her contribution to the debate over the state of feminism and the mother-daughter battle circling Hillary Clinton’s candidacy as the first viable female presidential contender, The Feminist Reawakening: Hillary Clinton and the Fourth Wave, Amanda Fortini writes, “In particular, the campaign has divided women and the men they know on the subject of race. [...]
Posted in History, New York, Reproductive Rights, United States on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
The feminists at Feministing have picked up on an abortion ban currently being considered by the Lithuanian Parliament, under pressure from the Catholic Church, to ban abortion in their country. They make the most significant point that such abortion bans only truly affect lower-income women, and this has been the case throughout much of history. [...]
Posted in Gender, History, United States on April 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Forget the title, we should probably just take “masculine” out of the picture just as we take “feminine” out. What female wants to be described as “feminine” (shrinking, timid, ladylike, well-kept), and what male wants to be described as “masculine” (grunty, gruff, muscular, insensitive, sports-watching)? (To be fair, I can think of a few on [...]
Posted in Activism, Reproductive Rights, Sexual Education, United States, What You Can Do on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Recently, POPLINE, which is run by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is both the “world’s largest reproductive health database,”and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), began to block searches using the word “abortion.” Such overt interference of politics and anti-intellectualism into research projects, databases, information dissemination is especially [...]
Posted in Sexuality, United States, tagged ENDA on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Long and short of it from NPR’s story:
“The Justice Department’s inspector general is investigating whether a career attorney in the department was dismissed from her job because of rumors that she is a lesbian. The case grew out of a larger inquiry into the firings of U.S. attorneys and politicization at Justice under former Attorney [...]
Posted in Reproductive Rights, United States, tagged Abortion, EC, Ob-Gyn on March 19, 2008 | No Comments »
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has tried to set professional guidelines that would require an ob-gyn who refuses to perform an abortion or give Emergency Contraception (EC: a heavy dose of birth control — NOT an abortion pill, contrary to anti-choice reports) to refer the patient to another ob-gyn. The Bush [...]
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