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Demographic Trends are Choices on the Large Scale
Interesting comparison from the US Census Bureau: The percentage of women who reach the end of their fertility with zero or one live-born child almost doubled over a recent 28-year period. The fraction...
View ArticleWho Let the Loons Loose?
Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) asks on Twitter: Why oh why is our country in the grips of a sex panic? I just don’t get it. My response was: Obama backlash was greenlight for all wingnuts; every...
View ArticleUgly Grandstanding on Abortion (. . . Again . . .)
Today’s news is that an amendment to the Republicans’ medical-residency defunding bill, prohibiting the use of any medical-education funding for “training in the provision of abortions”, was passed in...
View ArticleReligious Right Victory: Child Rape and Paternity Rights for Rapist
I missed this story when it first came out: a 10-year-old girl in Mexico became pregnant after being raped by her step-father. Abortion is legal with restrictions in Mexico City, but hardly at all...
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Oy . . . Such Putzes
This has been getting a fair amount of commentary, and rightly so. There is a citizen-petition initiative on the ballot for the City of San Francisco, this coming November, banning circumcision of male...
View ArticleAbortion Funding Assistance for Women in Need
From “Fund Abortion Now“, the blog of the National Network of Abortion Funds – non-profits that provide financial assistance to women in need of an abortion – comes this list of funding sources by...
View ArticleThe War on Women: Reality Optional
Rick Santorum – humiliated in his last electoral bid, and trailing badly in the GOP primary polls – knows he needs to keep saying outrageous things to keep himself in the public eye. Plus which, he’s...
View ArticlePatriarchal Progressives
Jill Filipovic, at Feministe, has a great post up on objectification of women within liberal activist circles. It was prompted by the much-commented assholery of one Steven Greenstreet, who took video...
View ArticleBlog for Choice Day 2013: Decimating Law to Eviscerate Women’s Rights Under...
January 22: the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and a perennial high point in the continuing relentless fight for women’s rights. This year is the 40th anniversary of the decision that gave women their own...
View ArticleUnderstanding Lives in Context
An interesting, and healthy, discussion has sprung up just recently over the historical view of Richard Feynman, iconic 20th-Century physicist and “character” whose physics were impeccable but whose...
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