No Kidding: Are You Essure?
Is it not at least a little funny that a permanent birth control procedure has the word "sure" in it? Considering how often I'm still asked if I'm sure about having my tubes tied and not wanting to...
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No Kidding: Do Women Have the Right to Sterility?
A fairly obvious question that I haven't addressed during this series is whether women have the right to be sterile. It seems like sort of an obvious one (if not with just one obvious answer) until you...
View ArticleNo Kidding: What About The Men? Pt. 1
When I talk about women's choices regarding children, pregnancy, and childbirth, someone usually asks about the men. Last month, I interviewed half a dozen men of varying ages, backgrounds, and life...
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Stop. Link time. (It had to be said.)For RH Reality Check, Jaime Jenett bravely discusses her experiences as a non-biological lesbian parent of an ill child while enduring the daily hurt of Prop 8...
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WTF Files: Jan Brewer Thinks You're Pregnant Two Weeks Before Conception (and...
Back in April, Arizona's Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill to prohibit abortions after the 18th week of pregnancy. That was scary enough, but it got even scarier when we...
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Call the Midwife: Three Questions to Ask Republicans about Reproductive...
Last night’s episode of Call the Midwife veered away from the familiar topics of abortion and birth control and provided a reminder of something that often gets lost in policy discussions about...
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Generation Roe is the Abortion Politics Book We've Been Waiting For
Finally: A smart book about abortion that doesn’t hew to a party line.Sarah Erdreich’s Generation Roe: Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement, is an incisive and comprehensive overview of the...
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Why North Dakota's Abortion Ban is a Win for Right-Wingers—Even if they Lose
The North Dakota legislature approved a “personhood” measure for the ballot last week—if the governor signs off on the measure, voters will decide in 2014 if North Dakota should criminalize abortion...
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New PSAs Treat Pregnant Women's Bodies Like Public Property
We as a nation just can’t seem to trust women to make their own choices, especially when their reproductive organs are involved.It’s not earth-shattering to point out a good deal of language tossed...
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Dystopian Book "Partials" Imagines a Society of Forced Pregnancy
I've never been attracted to books set in a world in which women have been stripped of their reproductive rights and function mainly as breeders.After all, I live in a very real society in which...
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Five Things You Need to Know About Texas's Terrible Abortion Bill
Orange-shirted pro-choice protesters fill the Texas legislature. Photo by Nick Swartsell, Texas Observer.The Texas House passed some of the nation's most restrictive abortion-access policies this...
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How Mainstream Media Failed on the Texas "Feminist Army" Filibuster
Yesterday was epic.Basically every feminist and politically engaged person I’m friends with on Facebook posted about Texas Senator Wendy Davis’ astounding all-day filibuster, which successfully blocked...
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The Power of Language Versus Data in Texas's Fiery Abortion Debate
In Texas today, 3,543 people signed up to publicly speak their mind on abortion. The capitol building crowd of reproductive rights advocates who turned out to protest Texas’s major...
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A Short List of Abortion Rights Restricted This Week
There have been so many political fights over abortion access this week that it has been overwhelming to try and keep up on what's happening where. In case you haven't been able to keep straight which...
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Everyone Should Be Horrified That California Prisons Sterilized Dozens of...
In 1923, 17-year-old Carrie Buck was raped and impregnated. Her adoptive family, trying to avoid the public shame of having an unwed mother in their midst, had her committed to an institution for the...
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Despite What Rick Perry Says, Support for Safe, Legal Abortion is a...
Laws restricting abortion rights have recently swept the country like a flood—legislatures in Texas, North Carolina, Ohio, and Wisconsin have all launched into high-profile debates over abortion-rights...
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Douchebag Decree: Clear Channel
Clear Channel is a behemoth—the media conglomerate owns 850 radio stations, making them the gatekeeper of mainstream radio airwaves across much of the country. And this week, the company is being a...
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The Empowerment Cure: How Teen Sex-Ed Has Undergone a Brilliant and Rapid...
The news on reproductive rights this year has not been good. Texas is shutting down health clinics, Ohio is forcing women to get an ultrasound before they get an abortion, Oklahoma is trying to...
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I Read a Bunch of Anti-Choice Memoirs So You Don't Have To
For the last four years I have been researching and writing about abortion rights and access, the latest trends in laws meant to overturn Roe v. Wade, and the politicians and activist groups pushing...
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Dissecting "Sweetening the Pill," a Completely Frustrating New Book on Birth...
Historically, the birth control pill is revolutionary. Today, it’s nearly mundane. In the 50 years since its approval, the Pill has radically changed contraception, placing it directly in the hands of...
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