A woman in PEI is hoping to change hospital rules to allow women the right to eat their placenta. Currently the local hospital does not let women take their placenta home with them. But a business woman, Amber Morrissey, hopes to help women turn their placenta into pills. Other mammals eat their placenta, and, in ...
We told you last week that there have been some rumbling in PEI about needing better access to abortion. It’s the only province that doesn’t offer them locally — two doctors need to give permission, and then a woman has to go to a different province. The only exception is women who have “serious medical ...
In the United States, where abortion rights are under direct attack, The Doula Project is promoting services for women who are terminating their pregnancies. The remit of a doula is to provide non-medical support through the latter stages of pregnancy and birth. American States have passed over eighty laws this year restricting a woman’s right ...
A woman was fired from her job an hour after announcing she was pregnant. But management swears they were already going to let her go before her announcement for other reasons, so the firing was warranted. Riiight. Alison MacKinnon was working at the small hotel Inn on the Hill for only a month, allegedly unknowingly on ...
Unprotected sex is on the rise, STIs are spreading like wildfire and education is sorely lacking — everywhere. A worldwide study, involving 6,000 people from 26 countries found that teens are clueless about contraception and sex. Unprotected sex went up 111 percent in France in three years, which makes the American increase of 39 percent ...
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...
