Dear Madame X, When my boyfriend and I were broken up a few months ago I found I was pregnant and had an abortion. It was terrible and I cried and cried. We are back together but I am so angry at him. He didn’t know but I am so angry for putting me in the ...
When we trust we give up power. We close our eyes and fall backwards into the arms we hope are waiting to catch us. For centuries women trusted the government to make decisions about our bodies, our livelihoods. We put faith in the system that we thought had our best interests at heart.
Mick, Morning Quickie
Today is the 37th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the historic ruling that legalised abortion in America. NARAL Pro-Choice is asking people to blog about what “Trust Women” means to them in honour of the abortion doctor, Dr. Tiller, who was killed last May and who often wore a badge with this phrase on it.
For US soldiers serving in Iraq, becoming pregnant or impregnating someone can lead to jail time. This policy has been put into effect because the pregnant woman will obviously have a negative impact on the mission and need to be removed and replaced. Now I definitely think she should be removed and replaced; a ...
Irish abortion laws are “draconian” and breach the human rights of the mother, it has been claimed. Women have been denied abortions even when their own life is at risk and when the health and safety of other children is compromised, and can lead to life imprisonment.
Not only does the UK have an incredibly high rate of teenage pregnancy, but last year more than 5,000 teenagers had a repeat abortion. The numbers of teenagers in the UK who get pregnant each year are also rising, in spite of the government’s effort to reduce these rates.
Speculation is abounding on the net that the ex-Director of Planned Parenthood was a plant by the anti-choice lobby and working to infiltrate Planned Parenthood in order to bring them down. As conspiracy theories go, it’s a little weak. Abby Johnson resigned with a statement that she is now anti-choice after working at Planned Parenthood for more than eight years. She ...
A study has found that women who have had an abortion have a higher risk of mental health problems. Researchers say “risk of mental illness was ‘proportional to the degree of distress’ associated with the abortion”. “Collectively, this evidence raises important questions about the practice of justifying termination of pregnancy on the grounds that this ...
Mack // Shere Hite, a sex researcher famous for the Hite Report in 1976, was featured in an article in the Times about the debate over motherhood and the right to bear children. Hite’s view is that motherhood is a feminist issue and women should have the right to bear children at any age. When asked ...
In spite of the fear of another shooting with such a large crowd of Pouillon’s pro-life colleagues, over 300 friends and neighbours, not to mention those drawn by the unusual facts of this case, were at the memorial service for the anti-abortion protester killed on September 11. Makeshift shrines and vigils were held throughout the ...
Seeing as how “housewife” vanished from just about everyone’s lexicon in 1987, I was surprised to hear there was...
Dear Madame X, I’ve heard that there is a big risk for elderly people to get diseases because when...
It’s a strange thing for me to love Charles Bukowsky, renowned hater of women. And yet from the first...
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle
The Internet is for porn! Check out these stats about who is using porn and the trouble they’re getting...
This week I thought I might like to write something about why men (and it is generally men) like...
Whatever you do, don’t use your teeth to open the condom! It may be used on TV to look...
Feminists have a bad rap. And it starts with the word. For some men and even a number of...
