Dr. David Gunn: Murdered on March 10, 1993. Dr. Barnett Slepian: Murdered on October 23, 1998. Dr. George Tiller: Murdered on May 31, 2009. These are just three of the most sobering examples of the violence extremists have levied against abortion providers in the U.S.. Though threats of violence against abortion providers are prohibited by […]
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Maternal Health, One Year Later
Women’s History Month should be a time of celebration. Sadly, when it comes to maternal health, there’s not a lot to celebrate this year. Just one year ago, this wasn’t the case. In April 2010, maternal health was making headlines—with an encouraging story. Research published in the medical journal The Lancet found glimmers of hope […]
Big Apple Takes Big Step Against CPCs
The battle against crisis pregnancy centers’ (CPCs’) deceptive tactics rages on, and this time New York City has joined the fight. The City Council passed a truth-in-advertising bill on Wednesday in order to combat about a dozen CPCs that are currently operating in the city. The bill’s passage comes after a federal judge struck down a […]
South Dakota Votes To Triple Abortion Wait Time
Under the guise of protecting and informing women, the South Dakota State Senate voted on Wednesday 21-to-13 to pass a bill (HB 1217) that triples the current 24-hour wait time for an abortion and mandates anti-abortion counseling. During the new 72-hour wait, women seeking abortions would have to go to a pregnancy health center for […]
How a Nonexistent Study is Predicting the Future and Ignoring Women
Have you heard about the new study concerning rising rates of depression among men, as a consequence of both the mancession (men losing their breadwinner jobs in the latest recessio,n which will depress them) and changing social gender roles (men having to become house-husbands, which will depress them)? Neither have I, because the study doesn’t […]
Heinous Billboard Reminds Us of Missing Voices
Last weekend, my friend told me that her 15-year-old student is pregnant. My friend works at a low-performing Philadelphia high school in a poverty-ridden, predominantly African American and Latino community. This particular student had been accepted into some of the most competitive high schools in the city, but remained in her neighborhood school in deference […]
If You’re Facing an Eating Disorder, Don’t Face it Alone
This week is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. Take the opportunity to learn the truth about eating disorders, or to play an important role in fighting them. Here is one major truth about these pervasive illnesses: Eating disorders lie. They deceive us into believing that whatever and however much we eat is wrong. They insist that […]
What Abusers and “Pro-Family” Conservatives Have in Common
Birth control sabotage has been revealed to be a common form of partner abuse. In a report released earlier this week by the National Domestic Violence Hotline, 25 percent of women callers to the hot line, who voluntarily answered questions about birth control and pressure to get pregnant in their relationships, reported some form of […]
Women CAN Handle the Truth–About Cancer OR Alzheimer’s
The BRCA genes were discovered in 1994 and 1995, but when you visited your doctor anytime from 1995 through the early 2000s, chances are that she or he did not recommend that you test for a mutation on the genes that would indicate an increased chance of developing ovarian or breast cancers. Why not? Because the paternalistic […]
Are You Joking, South Dakota?
The war on women rages on. In a move that has pro-choicers around the globe picking their collectively dropped jaws off the floor, the Republican-controlled South Dakota House of Representatives is set to vote on a bill (largely backed by anti-abortion representatives) that would legalize the killing of abortion providers. Mother Jones reported that the […]