June 4, 2012
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 ...
Tags: abortion,
access to abortion,
health,
Islam,
law,
pro life,
pro-choice,
rape,
reproductive rights,
Turkey,
women's rights
May 9, 2012
One editorial in last week’s New York Times has started a significant debate about women of colour and their relationship with their bodies. Alice Randall wrote that many black women are fat because “we want to be.” That is why, she explains, “four out of five black women are seriously overweight” and “one out of four ...
Tags: choice,
culture,
debate,
diabetes,
fat,
health,
obesity,
poverty,
race,
racism,
weight,
women
May 8, 2012
Vogue is finally doing something about the prevalence of underage and underweight models in the fashion industry. Nineteen of the magazine’s worldwide publishers have joined together to make a pact to ban models who have eating disorders and any model who is under the age of 16 from appearing in the magazine. The new standard ...
Tags: Allure,
anorexia,
BMI,
body image,
Body Mass Index,
eating disorder,
fashion,
fat,
food,
glamour,
health,
minor,
modelling,
plus size,
psychology,
size zero,
supermodel,
teenage girls,
underage model,
Vogue
April 13, 2012
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 ...
Tags: abortion,
abortion access,
abortion pill,
Arizona,
conception,
health,
Jan Brewer,
law,
pro life,
pro-choice,
reproduction,
reproductive rights,
Women's Health and Safety Act,
women's rights
April 11, 2012
How many times have scientists reportedly “discovered” that the female G-spot does or does not exist? More than I can count. But they’ve done it again. A new study has confirmed that women can orgasm from sex without any stimulation of the clitoris. Scientists found that clitoral and vaginal orgasms are completely separate and activate ...
March 28, 2012
Dear Madame X, I’ve heard that taking prenatal vitamins can help your nails, hair and can even relieve some symptoms of PMS. If I don’t have plans to have kids anytime soon (if at all), is it safe for me to take? Will it make me more likely to get pregnant or mess with my ...
March 15, 2012
Although Obama’s contraception mandate contained a religious exemption for various faith-based organizations, it was still a major milestone in women’s health. Under the mandate, American women are able to get prescriptions for birth control under their health insurance plans without having to co-pay, even if they’re taking birth control for its stated purpose — to ...
Tags: birth control,
birth control pill,
conservative,
contraception,
discrimination,
employment,
ethics,
health,
health insurance,
House Bill 2625,
individual freedom,
law,
madness,
moral objection,
morality,
Obama,
pregnancy,
prescription,
reproduction,
reproductive freedom,
tubal ligation,
vasectomies,
women's health
March 1, 2012
Black women are generally heavier than white women, but they are also more confident, according to a study of 800 American women. The survey, done by the Washington Post and the Kaiser Foundation, found that “66 percent of overweight or obese black women had high self-esteem, compared to 41 percent of average-sized or thin white ...
Tags: Academy Awards,
body confidence,
body image,
fat,
fat acceptance,
health,
Jennifer Hudson,
Melissa McCarthy,
Octavia Spencer,
Oscars,
plus size,
Queen Latifah,
race,
self-esteem,
study,
survey,
thin,
Viola Davis,
Washington Post,
weight
February 27, 2012
I can’t imagine how awkward it must be to..you know..produce a sperm sample at the doctor’s office. It seems downright impossible with all those people around, in a small room that has been used for that purpose for years. Fortunately for men, this humiliating visits may soon be over. There is now an inexpensive way ...
February 21, 2012
What happens when a child strongly identifies with a sex that doesn’t match their own body? Zach Avery may have been born with boy parts but he knew he wanted to be a girl by the age of three. Although initially Zach can dress up as a girl without being betrayed by his “boyness,” puberty ...
Tags: abuse,
bullying,
depression,
doctors,
emotional maturation,
gender,
gender identity disorder,
gender reassignment surgery,
gender roles,
health,
identity,
kids,
medical,
mental health,
nature versus nurture,
psychiatrists,
self mutilation,
sex change,
sex hormones,
sex-changing hormones,
suicide,
support,
transgender,
transgender children