If you can't legally stop women from having abortions, all you can do is harass and intimidate them. Oklahoma's new law is an example. It requires physicians to collect extensive personal details from women seeking abortions - details which will be posted on the Web, making it possible for individual women to be identified. The law has been put on ( Read more... )

Via fritters: cat shower. Wet head! Towel off, eh.

silverblue tweeted: Nuns on counseling condom use and AIDs prevention in PNG: "We are getting very old and hard of hearing, and Rome is a long way away."

Via qthewetsprocket: A FREAKING ENORMOUS SPIDER and many amusing responses thereunto. Don't click if you know it'll freak you out! (Oops - you need to join whatwasthatone to see it ( Read more... )

Advice on having Safe Sex At Dragon*Con, or indeed, having sex at all. Educates while it entertains. But the reason I mention it here is that it suggests anal intercourse as a means of avoiding pregnancy, which notoriously doesn't work, and I can't leave a comment or find a contact email so I can wave my arms about and point them to countless urls ( Read more... )

Australia will no longer charge immigration detainees for their own imprisonment

School of hard knocks still follows tradition, say parents: claims that bullying continues at Farrer high school, despite policy changes and a half million dollar payout to a severely traumatised former student.

Anti-abortion group barred from NSW schools

Girls not ( Read more... )

For young women, here are some snappy retorts to use if you're pressured for sex. "BOY: Everyone else is doing it. GIRL: Well, you'd better go and have sex with everybody else then." (Where would we be without Kaz Cooke? 'A Modern Girl's Guide to Safe Sex is one of the best books I've ever owned ( Read more... )

Doing a bit of research here, which has prompted two thought balloons ( Read more... )

Cardinal Pell continues to insist that condoms increase HIV transmission, describing them as "a significant cause of the problem".

Specifically, he states that:"Condoms give users an exaggerated sense of safety, so that they sometimes engage in 'risk compensation'. In one Ugandan study, gains in condom use seem to have been offset by increases in ( Read more... )

Sydney Archbishop Pell backs Pope in saying condoms worsen AIDS spread.

'Not good science': Pell's AIDS-condom link: "The president of the Australasian Society for HIV medicine, Doctor Jonathan Anderson, says there is no scientific basis to support the statements... 'There are many countries around the world that have a very high number of ( Read more... )

The Lancet wants a retraction of the Pope's false claim that condoms exacerbate the problem of HIV and AIDS.

Vatican clarifies remarks on abortion: "The Catholic church accepts abortion when the death of the foetus is not intentional, but is the result of care provided to the mother". Which means if she needs an abortion because the pregnancy will wreck her health or kill her - for example, if she's only nine years old - she's fucked ( Read more... )