I started watching American Horror Story?! It wasn't really on my radar last year, but I've seen a few good reviews of Asylum and the first season went up on Netflix last week, so I'm giving it a try. ( So get off my back, carve a goddamn pumpkin, go get a goddamn costume, and man up. )

If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, it is that human rights are women's rights - and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard. (Hillary Rodham Clinton)

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Read the whole thing here. She's never let up, either.

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So I am editing my Roslin essay (FAVORITE CHARACTER FOREVER, I CANNOT EVEN DEAL, I LOVE HER SO MUCH, YOU GUYS) and I cannot stop thinking about that terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad abortion episode.  I have thoughts on the edits of my thoughts which are really the redacted version of my real thoughts.  I think too much.  Because FINALE WHAT ( Read more... )

( discussion of child sexual abuse and the Assange case under the cut )

A:  An IUD.

Apparently, doctors in Scotland are following some new sexual health guidelines, concerning the discussion long-term contraceptive options with young teenage patients who ask about the contraceptive pill, “as long as the doctor does not suspect exploitation or coercion.”  The Express, the paper which originally reported on this, ( Read more... )

Absolutely nothing I am about to say should be construed as a defense of the actions of the Catholic Church here or abroad.  I am writing to clarify, not to excuse, defend, or render sympathetic - I think that all of those things are currently impossible.  But I do think that when good critics of conscience talk about the problems explicitly and ( Read more... )