
- Congressional Democrats introduced a bill yesterday that would require all pharmacies to offer emergency contraception, no matter how batshit insane the individual pharmacist. [Feminist]
- The Japanese government, however, is offering cash bonuses for families who have kids. [ABCNews]
- Maria Sharapova gets a beatdown. [Guardian]
- Rising numbers of immigrants are pushing the fertility rate in the U.K. to a 26-year high. [Telegraph
- A Nigerian woman wins major UK literary prize; youngest female and first African to do so. [WashingtonPost]


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