This Week In: Birth Control
● The world population has (possibly) reached 7 billion this week! ● Salon considers how the passage of a Personhood amendment would affect the legality of birth control. Mississippi votes next week...
View ArticleThis Week In: Sexism
Sexual harassment has been highlighted in the media lately and, though I’m glad awareness seems to be increasing, the messages being put out are not great for women. ● Katie Roiphe at the New York...
View ArticleThis Week In: Sexism
● My new favorite blog Skepchick writes about what happens when a teenage girl posts a headshot of her holding a Carl Sagan book on an Atheist forum. Spoilers: Rape jokes, misogyny, then some more rape...
View ArticleThis Week In: Your Government, the Good, the Bad, and the Huh?
Obama has denied requests from religious organizations hoping to withhold insurance coverage of contraception to their employees. Under the Affordable Health Care Act, birth control will be covered as...
View ArticleThis Week In: Politics and My Increasing Frustration
No, I’m not actually an anarchist. And I’ll probably end up voting for Obama again, just to avoid having a president who will take away our birth control and make safe abortions illegal. But sometimes...
View ArticleThis Week In: Abortion
“The Republican-led Arizona legislature has now taken measures to cut off Planned Parenthood’s access to taxpayer money funneled through the state for non-abortion services.” Use of taxpayer money for...
View ArticleThis Week In: Sexual Health
Vitamin D could be more important to fetal development than previously thought A recent study has implicated Vitamin D deficiency in mental and motor skill impairment in infants. Vitamin D deficiency...
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