Each day, women shoulder violence, inequality, racism, sexism, and simultaneously stay optimistic in the face of these challenges. As a humanitarian organization, the United Nations works to attack the serious issues they face head on with the noble goal of making the world a better place. A recently released Progress Report by UN Women, shows ...
With the ever present news surrounding the abortion battle within the US, the UK has been facing their own battle: the fight between an anti-abortion group and the government to have the abortion statistics revealed. And the stats have finally been released. In the last year, there were 2,290 abortions due to medical problems with ...
Kansas came close to being the first state in the US without any abortion providers. It will have one. The state Health Department instated a new law that requires abortion providers to have a special license. But to obtain it by the July 1 deadline, the state’s three abortion providers needed to adapt their clinics ...
Harassing women outside pregnancy clinics has become a popular pastime for anti-abortion activists, but in Germany they’ve been stopped in their tracks. A court has ruled members of the Life Centre- Helpers for God’s Precious Children association may no longer approach people accessing a family planning centre to discuss “pregnancy conflict situations,” or show them ...
Reality TV may actually have a purpose in our lives. It turns out watching shows like 16 and pregnant makes Americans more likely to support abortion, and less likely to support having children at too young an age. A new report from the Public Religion Research Institute (PPRI) also reveals the millennium generation’s views on ...
If you criminalize something necessary, people will continue to do it and will become criminals themselves. This is especially true for something as significant as abortions, and the consequences are tragic. Self-induced abortions are on the rise after numerous states are restricting their laws. Even if a state technically allows abortion, women who cannot afford ...
I am happy to report that defunding Planned Parenthood is illegal and unconstitutional! This was declared by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Medicaid Administrator Don Berwick. Indiana signed into law the defunding of Planned Parenthood last month, but in a letter sent to Indiana’s Medicaid director, Berwick rejected Indiana’s proposed ...
In 2011, thirty-eight years after abortion was legalized in the United States, discussions of the procedure’s morality and availability continue with more vigor than ever. In the past few months it has become achingly obvious that anti-abortionists are not simply a vocal minority. They are, in fact, among those passing laws, printing newspapers, administering justice ...
Young women are not the only ones getting abortions. Women of the so-called Sex and the City generation are making the decision well into their 40s. Surprising new figures show that 8,179 women aged 40 and over have had an abortion, according to government figures reported by Daily Mail. Samantha Syndrome? That’s what the article ...
That’s right, along with changing laws regarding pensions and citrus farming Florida Gov. Rick Scott passed a bill yesterday that outlawed bestiality. The even stranger thing is that it took the Legislator three tries before this law finally passed. Other legislatures were squeamish and thought it was a waste of time because bestiality never happened, ...
John Burnside’s novel A Summer of Drowning takes us into the mind of Liv, a woman remembering the strange,...
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ~...
Are you a couple? Aren’t you? Maybe it’s just complicated. Thanks to xkcd.
This week I had a meltdown. In its wake, the remains of a Very Nice and Thoughtful Man who...
If you are breastfeeding your child, they are less than six months old, they only eat breastmilk (no other...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Actually, some time in the 1980s in a flat...
Dear Madame X, I have been on a few dates with a guy I met online. He is really...
Achmat Dangor’s novel Bitter Fruit begins in post-apartheid South Africa, when Silas spots the police lieutenant who raped Lydia...
