( SPOILERS for The End of Time and, erm, I, Claudius )

Frustratingly, migrating to the new puter has somehow resurrected a bunch of deleted bookmarks. It's a real jumble. So apologies for any duplicates which get posted as I try to sort them out.

Doctors' fears mean woman is sent to Darwin for abortion: "Queensland Health is paying for a woman to be sent to Darwin for an abortion because doctors fear ( Read more... )

Here's an entry from my proto-blog, "Kate Almanac", dated 9 July 2000.In June this year, I visited relatives in Washington DC. I packed my passport, my swimsuit - and a list of references to look up at the Library of Congress. Despite plundering university and local libraries around the world, there were still a handful of citations I hadn't been ( Read more... )

Via silverblue and hnpcc: Some US health insurances companies count domestic violence as a pre-existing condition.

Via mrteufel: Sexual Assault Prevention Tips Guaranteed to Work!

And in another kind of violence... Queensland women cannot currently obtain abortions while a question mark hangs over the legality in the state.

Iraqi women suffer 'silent emergency': "Despite the billions of dollars poured into rebuilding Iraq and recent security gains, a quarter of the women interviewed still do not have daily access to water, a third cannot send their children to school and since the war started, over half have been the victim of violence."

Aussies urged to stop ( Read more... )

One of my Internet essays gets a mention in a 1998 book, Domestic Violence and Social Work. (Yes, I was ego-scanning Google books. What's it to ya? :) I must extract my digit and get that back up online.

Couple from the Guardian Weekly: How I lost my unfaith: "No matter how often is it repeated that religious faith is uniquely and by definition a matter of assent to propositions for which there is no evidence, this simply won't do as a description. Quite probably some or all forms of religion do involve assent to untrue propositions but so does any ( Read more... )

Support Planned Parenthood: Pledge-A-Protester!

Memo to Media: The Palin Rape-Kit Story Has Not Been 'Debunked'

Midwives found to aid babies' survival

Love Me Tender? Sex and Power in the Age of Pornography

Just five to 10 per cent of child sex abuse cases which proceed to court result in a plea or verdict, and only half of those result in a ( Read more... )

A proposed amendment to Colorado law would redefine "person" to include any human being from the moment of fertilization. (The wag who sent me this link suggested this would mean you couldn't refuse to hire someone on the grounds they hadn't been born.) A Denver Post editorial explores the bizarre ramifications.

Palin: Unserious About Sex Crimes ( Read more... )

Off to the sleep lab tomorrow yay, so here's a last squirt of feminist stuff to keep you going until I emerge from the pit of bewilderment.

Ta to thegameiam for Where Palin Really Stands on Sex Education: turns out she clarified (somewhat) her stance an interview, describing herself as "pro-contraception". So that's one less thing to worry about.

OTOH, ( Read more... )