This apology is for you!

What I just left on the Facebook wall of Rep. Alan Dick of Alaska, who believes that women should have to ask men's permission in order to obtain abortions: Hi, Rep. Dick! I had a baby 8 months ago and haven't resumed menstruation yet, but I thought I'd be proactive and get your blessing to do so. After all, those precious eggs will be wasted by ( Read more... )

This is something that more people should read: Overplanned Parenthood, a description of what reproductive policy was like under the despotic regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu. Hint: It's more than a bit reminiscent of what the GOP has lately been attempting to enact on a state and federal level.

It's been obvious for the last three decades that today's Republican Party isn't actually conservative anymore, as we used to understand the concept. It likes to preach about smaller government and spending less, when the evidence clearly shows that they practice the opposite at every opportunity. Just now it occurred to me that, ironically, it's ( Read more... )

Mine came back negative. Yay! Fortunately for me I have insurance and don't have to rely on Planned Parenthood for an affordable mammogram, now that the Susan G. Komen Foundation's anti-choice VP of Public Policy has engineered Komen's defunding of such by PP ( Read more... )

Okay, I thought stuff like Bodyperks was weird enough. Now there's My New Pink Button, for those women who have now been convinced that there's something wrong with them if their labia aren't pink enough. O_o

Those Dove ads for "firming cream" have gotten a lot of adspace and discussion recently. Like many others, I appreciate the, um, exposure of normally sized women in advertising while also disliking the usual implication that something that is normal in women ("cellulite," in this case) needs fixing with some product that likely is just a new, ( Read more... )