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Lazy Sunday Roe Versus Wade Anniversary Post

Lazy Sunday Roe Versus Wade Anniversary Post

January 22, 2012 No Comments

Today is the 39th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the court case that made abortion legal in the USA. In honour of this day we are posting a video that explains some of the facts about who really gets abortions (not teenagers) and why (poverty and already having too many children to look after), in ...

Abortion Anniversary And Accusations

Abortion Anniversary And Accusations

January 21, 2011 No Comments

Tomorrow, January 22, is the 38th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the USA. This was a landmark case for the rights of women to control their bodies. But the right to an abortion has been fraught with difficulties since the beginning, including recent issues over parental notification laws, ultrasound ...

Will Women Ever Be Free To Choose?

Will Women Ever Be Free To Choose?

June 3, 2010 1 Comment

In America, anti-abortion advocates must be celebrating in the streets. Eleven states have passed laws this year restricting abortion and 370 state bills are under consideration. I think it’s time we finally accept that women will never be completely free to choose and there will always be an ongoing battle over rights to abortion.  Also, for ...

Blog For Choice Day 2010: Abortion Falling Into The Void

January 22, 2010 No Comments

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.

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Blog For Choice Day 2010: Accessing Abortion

Blog For Choice Day 2010: Accessing Abortion

January 22, 2010 No Comments

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.

How Many Lovers Is Too Many?

Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...

A Beloved Novel

Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...

The University Men’s Non-Wanker Centre

My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...

The Patriarchal Overlords And Your Shoes

Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...

Lack Of Female Film-Makers Is Not Gender Bias

The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...

Why Macho Men Are Sexy

Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...

Fifty Years Of A Clockwork Orange

When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...

Why Manly Skincare Is Better

Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...

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