Just in time to stop Mitt Romney as he launches his “Why we shouldn’t fund birth control” argument on the campaign trail, a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics sweeps in like a God-damned super hero. While we already knew the dropping teen pregnancy rates were due to contraception, according to the [...]
March 19, 2012
Ready for this? According to a report from the ACLU, as a part of a sweeping anti-abortion bill, Kansas is ready to pass legislation that will ALLOW DOCTORS TO HIDE the results of your cvs, amnio, ultrasound or other tests regarding your pregnancy IF THAT DOCTOR DOESN’T BELIEVE IN ABORTION. Writes Jennifer Dalven: Buried in [...]
January 11, 2012
The “midwife of modern midwifery” Ina May Gaskin was interviewed recently at the blog Feministing, and instead of resulting in a shower of goodness around the beauty and wonder of natural childbirth, it stirred up a shit storm of controversies and anger about homebirth, attacks on Ms. Gaskin, and whole mess of judgements and shame [...]
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June 21, 2012
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