Ever Used Plan B?
(image) Y'all might or might not remember that my first post for this site was about Plan B. Plan B is birth control, not an abortifacient (if you...
Noticed Your Birth Control Costing More? Tell Congress
(image) Remember this piece about birth control costs for college students going up because the Bush administration cut the funding that helps subsidize...
Rethinking Adoption: Birth Mothers are People, Too
(image) I've just finished reading a book called The Girls Who Went Away, which is about "the hidden history of women who surrendered children...
Birth Control News
(image) Three stories about what's going on in the world of SCIENCE!!! 1. They're redesigning the female condom. Amen, brother. Bitch_PhD...
Congress Repeals Global Gag Rule
(image) Hurrah! Feministing announces that Congress has voted to repeal the Global Gag Rule, which banned U.S. family planning money to international organizations...
Newsflash: Women Are People
(image) The news that Amnesty International has decided to support abortion access as a basic human right is, hopefully, not news to anyone reading this.
Count Your Blessings, But Don't Count On Them
(image) It's too easy, if you're part of the Industrialized World, to assume that a healthy live birth is the norm, that adequate medical care...
Pregnancy is Not a Promise
(image) Ugh. Here's a story about a fucked up situation where clearly *something* is not right, but lacking evidence prosecutors are trying to go...
If You Fuck a Man, He Owns You
(image) At least, some folks in Ohio are trying to make that the law--and with the current makeup of the Supreme Court, they man succeed, despite the precedent...
Do You Want Kids? Do You Want to Have the Option?
(image) I assume that by now folks have heard about this article about the difficulties 20-ish women have convincing docs to give them tubal ligations.
Give 'Til It Hurts?
(image) According to a new study (.pdf) by the Women's Campaign Foundation, women give only 25% of the money raised by Political Action Committees...
ABC for Plan B
(image) It's about time. On Wednesday, Republican representative from Connecticut, Christopher Shays and Democratic senator Frank Lautenberg from...
Presumably Men Have to Document Masturbation
(image) File this one under "we're not there yet, but thanks for the idea": in India, a new requirement for women civil servants orders...
Book Review: Promises I Can Keep
(image) Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage is a rare kind of book: a great read, academically sound, emotionally and intellectually...
Pregnant Girls Not Human in North Dakota
(image) Probably the scariest story yet about the extremes of the family values, anti-abortion right: North Dakota's House of Representatives just...
Latest News from the War on Women
(image) If you're in college, you may have noticed that the cost of your birth control's gone way up. This is annoying, of course; but it also...
How Much for That Baby in the Window?
(image) File this one under "unlikely to become law--riiight?" Texas state Senator Dan Patrick (R, as if you needed to ask) plans to introduce...
South Carolina to Mandate Unnecessary Medical Procedure
(image) South Carolina is considering a law requiring women undergoing abortions to view an ultrasound image of the fetus. It's obviously an attempt...
No Brainer: Vaccinate for HPV
(image) The brainless fundies in the Texas house of representatives are trying to ensure that plenty of Texan women keep getting cervical cancer. Big surprise:...
Sisters Doing it for Themselves (and Everyone Else, Too)
(image) Meet Loretta Ross, one of the founding members of the Sister Song Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, which is holding its second National...
Why Meth Users Matter
(image) So, why am I so on about the rights of pregnant drug users? Simple. First, because it's fundamental that if we're going to say that...