US Centric
Within 7 days of the Global Gag rule being overturned low income women in the U.S. are the first cut in 'concessions' to the right wing factions of our country :
House Democrats are likely to jettison family planning funds for the low-income from an $825 billion economic stimulus bill, officials said late Monday, following a personal ( Read more... )

This article over at mute magazine is a really good read.

In the context of the recent abortion debates in the UK - and in anticipation of further, much tougher ones as we contemplate an incoming right-wing government - I thought this is a really useful article. Basically it places the immediacy of the usual quite simplified (and very bourgeois) ( Read more... )

So, it's been mentioned a lot here about how the ability to eat healthy is highly linked with class when discussing fatphobia. (So, link to feminism: class, fatphobia, and the many fatphobia threads that have happened, and unfortunately probably will again in the future, were people tell us how it's just soo easy to not be fat, which is unhealthy- ( Read more... )

This article is pretty good and highlights a new study done by a variety of agencies on the [negative] impact of privatizing social security on people of color, women, low/middle-class workers, the disabled, children ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4331996.stmRead more... )

Has anyone here read The Price of Motherhood by Anne Crittenden? I just finished reading it and learned so much about how much is REALLY involved in being a mother. The book focuses on the ways women are penalized for having children. Women who work full-time often don't advance in their careers and get little help as far as housework and childcare ( Read more... )

So here's the scenario....I'm taking an online history class. It somehow seems that most people lose impulse control in online classes and blurt out things that they would probably never say face to face (or at least one hopes).
The discussion topic for this week was what one thing would you like to see changed about our country.

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From http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/printedition/chi-0509140325sep14,1,4508255.story

( Natural )

More Than One in Four Non-elderly Women Delay or Forgo Medical Care Due to Costs

Large Percentages of Women Say Their Doctors Haven't Talked About Diet, Exercise, Smoking, STDs, or HIV - Henry J. Kaiser Foundation

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