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more about #reproductiverights more comments → pesematology: There are tee shirts that say "Save the Ta-Tas!" displayed prominently on the main drag of my little town. All I can say to that is "nvfrguhadfrd jfad... more » PilgrimSoul: One of my favourite feminist bloggers spent a lot of time talking about her experiences with the "cancer-industrial complex" a couple of years back, a... more » Little Green Frog (Wise Latina): I am with Ehrenreich on this one. My doctor sent me for a baseline mammogram (I'm in my 30s). The hospital wing where it was done was not a hospital a... more » bowleserised: I like her stuff on the Pink Ribbon Cult, but (thanks to Feministing et al) I also know that there are PLENTY of grassroots movements out there campai... more » Benevolent_Dictatrix (patently absurd): This is a must-read post on this issue: [thefeministagenda.blogspot.com] more » Penny: Now, in some masochistic perversion of feminism, they are raising their voices to yell, "Squeeze our tits!" Okay, that made me laugh. more » CherriSpryte: You have forgotten the most important similarity: the country/world would be a whole lot better if both of these people went far far away and never ca... more » Notes from the underwhelmed: The most irritating thing about this is that they do have points, and the left has allowed them to have those points, and given them the ammunition. Y... more » funnyface: These two make Miss Teen SC look like a genius. At least she's realized that the thing that made her famous is a joke, and she's willing to laugh at i... more » buttercupia: "still standing"... because it's so hard to be a conventionally attractive, young, blonde, thin, caucasian woman with large breasts in this country. more » Blueberry26: Oh waaah. The only reason these women think they have it so hard is because they're so damn used to being treated better because they're white and pre... more » Ruby_de_la_Booby: If the media were truly liberal, then they would stop covering this dumbass Prejean, because obscurity is far worse to her than any sex-tape scandal e... more » toastandlove: What I don't get is that these women spend a hell of a lot of time explaining that they DO oppose gay marriage, but never really dwell on WHY. I woul... more » alotlikelo: Who are they looking up to on the covers? Jesus? more » I_can_still_pitch: All I can add at this point is this: If my charter-subscriber-to-Ms., protesting on the streets of DC in the 60s and 70s, multiple degree holding Orig... more » -
#breastintentions
Blindfolded By A Pink Ribbon? Barbara Ehrenreich On Mammograms, Breast Cancer
Barbara Ehrenreich asks, "has feminism been replaced by the pink-ribbon breast cancer cult?" In other words, are women so concerned with access to mammograms that they're ignoring science and even their own rights? More » -
#bookreviews
"Palinizing" Prejean, Prejeanizing Palin: Two Conservative Women Look Out For #1
Carrie Prejean has complained of being "Palinized" — that is, discriminated against because she's a conservative woman — but she and Sarah Palin have more in common than just a victim complex.
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#healthnuts
Health Care Bill Is Still Full Of Drama
It's been ten days since the announcement of the Stupak-Pitts amendment, and health care reform hasn't been the same. News bites, including the Massachusetts senate race, circumventing a filibuster, and how the Wall Street Journal got it wrong after the jump. More » -
#feminisms
Three Feminists On Dirty Words, Pop Culture, And The Language Of Choice
Yesterday the Planned Parenthood NYC Action Fund brought together Jessica Valenti of Feministing, Lynn Harris of Broadsheet, and longtime reproductive rights activist and writer Gloria Feldt to discuss everything from feminist pop culture to whether "feminism" is a dirty word.
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#healthnuts
Anti-Choice Democrats Hold Up Healthcare Bill
House Democrats are pretty much ready to get started debating the monster healthcare reform bill, except for those conservatives who are trying to seize the opportunity to block more women's access to abortion. More » -
#roevsworld
Illinois Votes To Enforce Parental Notification Laws While Pro-Choice Nun Suspends Activism
Illinois's Medical Disciplinary Board has voted to start enforcing a law that requires doctors to give the parents or guardians of girls 17 or younger 48 hours' notice before providing them with abortions. More » -
#roevworld
Ova Are People, Too
Colorado anti-choicers are redefining personhood yet again. Life no longer starts at fertilization, but at "the beginning of the biological development of a human being." If so, say goodbye to in-vitro fertilization, stem cell research, and bodily autonomy! [Colorado Independent] -
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#unkindcuts
Is A Forced C-Section Comparable To Rape?
Ever since women fought against twilight sleep being used in hospitals, questions about giving birth and what practices are helpful or harmful has captivated public conversation. A growing movement hopes to draw attention to the overuse of Caesarean procedures. More » -
#thetwits
What About The Miscarriage Penelope Trunk Didn't Tweet?
Just when you thought Penelope Trunk's tweeted miscarriage was old news, along comes Kathleen Parker, raising her voice yet again on behalf of women who can't stand other women.
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#ohbaby
Guttmacher Institute: Recession Cures Baby Fever
A recent survey by the Guttmacher Institute found that nearly half of the American women who responded wish to delay childbearing until the economy improves. Unfortunately, many are also skipping birth control and routine gynecological care to save money. More » -
#jezenomics
Who Is Enriching Himself In The Abortion Debate?
Well-known tool Tucker Carlson is really upset that doctors who perform abortions are charging for their services! He calls it "enriching" themselves. I call it being hypocritical and disingenuous, like most of the right-wing on this issue. More » -
#roevsworld
How The Anti-Abortion Movement Demonized George Tiller
Yesterday, David Barstow, in a front page story in the New York Times, provided one of the most thorough reviews as to how, for 30 years, the anti-abortion movement defined, demonized, harassed - and eventually killed - Ob/Gyn George Tiller.
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#conversationallyspeaking
Awesome, Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg Explains It All To You
Emily Bazelon got the chance to do something many of us would like to — sit down and talk to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (for the upcoming issue of the NY Times Magazine). Pure awesomeness, naturally, followed.
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#reproductiverights
Australian Doctors Fear Prosecution For RU486
The upcoming trial of a 19-year-old Australian girl charged with procuring her own miscarriage has lead obstetrician Caroline De Costa to advise doctors to stop prescribing "non-surgical abortions" because of the legal loophole responsible for this sorry case. [News.com.au] -
#roevsworld
Operation Rescue Goes Predictably Negative, Crazy On Sotomayor
In a Photoshop job that, were it about a child, might cause Sarah Palin to resign yet again, Operation Rescue's Randall Terry is calling for the defeat of Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court — and he's not alone. More » -
#roevsworld
Steven Waldman Thinks We Should Pay Women To Carry Their Unplanned Pregnancies To Term
Several readers wrote in today to tip us to a video of Beliefnet's Steven Waldman and Slate's William Saletan discussing the idea of paying pregnant women to carry their babies to term in order to give them up for adoption. More » -
#roevsworld
Perpetually Annoying Slate Writer Sez Calling It A Fetus Might Lead To Infanticide
Wow: William Saletan at Slate thinks that pregnant, abortion-loving women had better think twice about calling a fetus anything other than "a baby," or else they "might" end up offing their kids. More » -
#roevsworld
Some People Underestimate The Economic Impact Of Abortion
President Obama plans to bring together pro- and anti-choice advocates by focusing on what we can do to reduce the need for abortion. Two stories this week illustrate the need for that, and why some people remain blind to it.
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#dontdouthat
Op-Ed Writer: Pro-Choicers Have George Tiller's Blood On Their Hands
I'm starting to suspect that the New York Times is giving increasingly ill-considered and poorly written conservatives column space in an effort to undermine the idea that Republican ideology has any intellectual validity.
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