Since Barack Obama has introduced the new healthcare bill, he has faced an onslaught of opposition against the birth control mandate, which obliges most employers to include birth control coverage in company health care packages, regardless of the organization’s stance on the issue. It was an effort by the government to improve health care for ...
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 ...
Just because a law against selling one’s eggs or sperm was enacted in Canada eight years ago doesn’t mean that it’s been either recognized or enforced. According to the Assisted Human Reproduction Act, “No person shall purchase, offer to purchase or advertise for the purchase of sperm or ova from a donor or a person ...
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 ...
The first day of women’s history month did not go so well. After law student Sandra Fluke went before Congress to speak in support of access to birth control, radio host Rush Limbaugh called her a slut. “What does it say about the college co-ed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essential ...
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 ...
Vice President for Public Policy, of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, Karen Handel resigned on Tuesday following the outstanding public backlash against the organization. Handel and the organization received major criticism for supporting new grant guidelines that excluded Planned Parenthood. Seen by some as another step in the “War Against Women,” the ...
When you need emergency contraception, you need it fast with no questions asked, as it’s most effective if it’s taken within 24 hours. At Shippensburg University, a vending machine dispensing Plan B and pregnancy tests has been installed so students can have easy access to the emergency contraception pill. The best part is that young ...
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 ...
It’s that time of year, when spring blossoms counteract the car pollution, beer gardens are filled with humans on...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
