The current Turkish government is threatening women’s right to abortions. On Saturday at a rally in southern Turkey, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called abortion murder, saying that women had no right to abort a fetus in their uterus. The next day, thousands of demonstrators protested in the capital city of Ankara. There were also ...
Britain’s Daily Mail has become internationally notorious, largely because of the pink “sidebar of shame” down the right-hand side of the increasingly apoplectic website — a one-stop shop for celebrity body snarking and general judgement of famous women for being too fat, being too thin, wearing slutty clothes, wearing frumpy clothes, giving birth by elective ...
Yesterday, anti-abortion protestors gathered at Parliament Hill in Ottawa for the annual March for Life. Campaign Life Coalition is demanding the Conservatives take a second look at abortion laws in Canada. Stephen Harper and the Tories have repeatedly stated they will not change any legislation regarding abortion. However, Conservative MP Steven Woodsworth brought a motion ...
Anyone browsing on the Voice website (the online version of the British Columbia-based Indo-Canadian newspaper the Voice) this week may have noticed an advert for sex selection IVF treatment at a Washington State-based clinic. Not only is this treatment unethical, it is illegal in Canada, so what exactly is going on here? Sex-selection techniques are ...
There is an argument that life begins at conception, rather than at viability. But one American politician has decided that life actually begins at a mother’s last period when she’s not even pregnant! Sounds ridiculous, right? But that didn’t stop Arizona governor Jan Brewer from signing a bill into law that says life begins two ...
Idaho lawmaker Chuck Winder is on to women. He knows that we have been duping America to get rid of our pregnancies guilt-free. He knows that we are just a bunch of scheming, lying women’s libbers. Or at least that’s what his latest bill makes it sound like. Winder said Monday that women use rape as ...
Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury cartoon strip which compares the vaginal ultrasound Texas women are forced to have before an abortion (in addition to an imposed waiting period) to rape has been pulled from several newspapers. I’ve yet to hear a sensible explanation for this decision. Trudeau is one of many voices in the United States objecting ...
Surely a woman may feel a sense of loss and pain after getting an abortion, but does the procedure actually boost a woman’s chances of suffering from mental illness? In 2009, Priscilla Coleman, of Bowling Green State University in Ohio, published a study saying that, yes, there is a link between abortion and mental illness. Using ...
The bill that would require women to undergo an invasive transvaginal ultrasound before having an abortion was pulled after Virginia’s governor withdrew his support. Governor Bob McDonnell faced a wave of criticism over the bill. It was argued that a transvaginal ultrasound, or “state-sponsored rape” as some blogs have named the invasive procedure, is not medically ...
Once a week, I transform into a sci-fi geek girl. Under cover of darkness (and a pink blanket), I proudly fly my geek girl flag as I watch three hours of the re-imagined TV show, Battlestar Galactica (BSG) with the two good friends. Last week, the episode we watched was entitled “The Farm.” One of ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
