Right now, there is a whole slew of legislation here in the United States, on both state and federal levels that undermine access not only to abortion, not only to contraception, but to even to basic care like cancer screenings. The common thread in all these awful proposals is sheer contempt for women and our health and our livelihoods. Think I ( Read more... )

Dear Representative Wolf ( Read more... )

I have resigned myself to your stance on reproductive health issues. But your co-sponsorship of the No Taxpayer for Abortion Act was beyond the pale. The sentiment of the Hyde Amendment gets reiterated time and again and it is already forbidden for public money to go toward abortion except in the cases of the mother's mortality, rape, and incest. ( Read more... )

I've been invited to join the abortion gang in honor of the late Dr. George Tiller. My first post is on why I'm pro-choice ( Read more... )

Adam Beauford is the son of Aphrodite and a retired Army General who was way hot back in the day. He's been in Camp Half-Blood for five years. When he's not at Camp Half-Blood, he waits tables in DC, where his dad lives in a condo in Dupont Circle. One fine morning, Adam senses monsters disguised as protesters outside the downtown Planned ( Read more... )

It's Blog for Choice Day next Friday, and I'm getting a head start by answering what the phrase "Trust women" means to me. Actually this is kind of tough. I mean, this is hardly the first time I've written about what it means for me to be pro-choice. Look here, for example. Or here. And here. For a start. Anyway ( Read more... )

I've wondered, with a lot of women's sexual issues, why I'm so passionate it? I have a very meager sex life, woe is me am not on the pill, and somehow, I don't think we'll ever be at a point that condoms will be banned, and in the event that any store pulled a CVS, I like to think I'd have the ovaries to look the cashier dead in the face and say, " ( Read more... )

You know what's funny? Every time we make progress, it seems, it comes at the expense of women - particularly women's reproductive rights. And it happened again with respect to health care reform and the Stupak amendment. I learned a while ago that misogyny knows no political affiliation. Whether it's this recent news, which has been better ( Read more... )