Via Jezebel, Lisa Russ has a modest proposal regarding sex education in our schools: … Despite the fact that Texas ranks third in the rate of teen pregnancies and that its students are more sexually active and that they have more sex partners than the average U.S. student, sex ed here is nearly exclusively devoted …
Women's Rights
A Disgrace to Her Gender
Shorter Maureen Dowd: My status as a childless, never-married woman in the Ladies Sodality DC Media Village makes me the perfect expert to criticize Michelle Obama’s marital and child-raising talents. But I’m using the classic “feminine” passive-aggressive trick of lovingly retailing every nasty rightwing slur ironically, because I am just that hip, so it proves …
Skeert of The Mean Lady, Elizabeth Warren
Shamelessly stolen from Jim Newell’s Gawker article, “Will Tough, Awesome Elizabeth Warren Head the New Consumer Protection Agency?”: … Warren’s voice became more prominent over the last decade for her work studying credit card company abuses and other, suddenly very common financial sector exploitations of the debt-saddled middle class. Her fame and popularity “exploded” (Washington-wise!) …
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Be Still My Fluttering Heart
I can’t tell you how excited I am at the prospect of a debate over birth control in the year 2010. Do these religious nuts not have anything better to do than to fight battles they lost decades ago? How about a stirring debate on heliocentrism or phlogiston? Although I guess we should appreciate the …
You Say Abortion, I Say Contraception
The FDA is considering approval of “Ella”, a new morning after pill that works up to five days after sex, causing Right-To-Lifers to get all pissy pants (via). That’s funny, because this WHO study (via this menstruation blog) shows that the existing Plan B emergency contraception pill will stop most pregnancies in the five day …
We Wouldn’t Want To Get In Between a Patient and Their Doctor
Zealots: The Oklahoma Legislature voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to override vetoes of two highly restrictive abortion measures, one making it a law that women undergo an ultrasound and listen to a detailed description of the fetus before having an abortion. Though other states have passed similar measures forcing women to have ultrasounds, Oklahoma’s law goes further, …
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Death Panel by Algorithm
Murray Waas, award-winning investigative journalist, reports that “Insurer [Wellpoint] targeted breast cancer patients to cancel“: … None of the women knew about the others. But besides their similar narratives, they had something else in common: Their health insurance carriers were subsidiaries of WellPoint, which has 33.7 million policyholders — more than any other health insurance …