TW for post and comments: fatphobia; body-shaming; discussing of diet, weight-loss, exercise.

You might have heard the terms fat-hate or fatphobia used to describe your words or what sounded to you like the reasonable words of others. Maybe you don’t hate fat people. Maybe you aren’t afraid of fat people. Maybe you aren’t less likely to hire fat ( Read more... )

By Brian Alexander, NBC News Contributor

A dramatic new study with implications for next month’s presidential election finds that offering women free birth control can reduce unplanned pregnancies -- and send the abortion rate spiraling downward.

When more than 9,000 women ages 14 to 45 in the St. Louis area were given no-cost contraception for ( Read more... )

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It’s called a “wrongful birth” bill and it’s all about preventing women from having an abortion, even if it kills them. The Arizona Senate passed a bill this week that gives doctors a free pass to not inform pregnant women of prenatal problems because such information could lead to an abortion ( Read more... )

Mon, Jan 23 2012

By Genevra Pittman

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Getting a legal abortion is much safer than giving birth, suggests a new U.S. study published Monday.

Researchers found that women were about 14 times more likely to die during or after giving birth to a live baby than to die from complications of an abortion.

Experts say the findings, ( Read more... )

Pennsylvania is one of a handful of states that have abhorrant parental consent laws that require pregnant teens to get permission from their parents to have abortions. If they don't want to ask their parents, they have the option to petition a judge. Several months back, one pregnant teen was denied her request to have an abortion because the ( Read more... )

Mods, can we have tags for birth, reproductive justice, and/or midwifery? Also, I thought this was incredibly on-point, and does a fantastic job addressing the racism and classism behind "choosing" a "natural" birth. I actually think this can be extended to breastfeeding and living eco-friendly.This was a quote from my eighth grade history class, ( Read more... )

Trigger warnings for: misogyny, ableism, and emotional abuse.

Since I've been going to therapy, I've been taking an interest in women and mental health, particularly women with depression and why they have it more than men. And then I came across this. I'll be honest. It was emotionally difficult for me to read, so I figured it was better to be ( Read more... )

((MODS: For some reason it will let me add other tags, but it won't let me add the 'usa' one ( Read more... )

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration issued new standards on Monday that require health insurance plans to cover all government-approved contraceptives for women, without co-payments or other charges ( Read more... )