Gobsmacked to learn that a Queensland woman and her partner have been charged with a crime for obtaining a medical abortion (that is, using a medication rather than surgery). Both of them could be sentenced to ten or more years' prison. Unsurprisingly, doctors have stopped prescribing the drugs ( Read more... )

Why Clinic Violence is Obama's ProblemOp-ed calls for the federal US government to revive the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and revive the National Task Force on Violence against Health Care Providers ( Read more... )

"Dr. Tiller's slaying is the most recent in a string of murders in the service of the anti-abortion cause, and hundreds of people have been injured or threatened because they provide legal abortion services. Bringing the killers to justice is not enough - the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security must root out and prosecute as ( Read more... )

I'd express some sort of outrage over Miranda Devine's offering this morning, only I can't actually work out what she's saying. I think she's trying to get across that men are natural born rapists and that women's best bet is to try and appeal to their chivalry, but the piece is such a muddle that I can't really be sure. One paragraph says that men ( Read more... )

Caught the trailer for the new Sherlock Holmes avec Robert Downey Jr. It looks like lots of fun, and whiny Watson gave me the lol. Somehow, though, I don't think this one's exactly going to pass the Bechdel Test, either. (Bit of a shame given the numerous kickass women in the Canon.)

In the past week we've seen the new Trek and the Wolverine flick and I've enjoyed them both: well-made, well-acted movies with plenty of pace and laughs. And yet I find myself oddly unmoved by either of them. ( SPOILERS for both films )

Tell Obama you support complete, accurate reproductive health information for women before midnight, 9 April. In other words, right now! It'll only take you a tick.

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• One in 10 young women polled by Grazia magazine have taken illicit drugs to lose weight.

• A study by the AMP and the University of Canberra cheers the closing of the wage gap for Australian women in their 20s and 30s, but lists the many reasons for the huge differences in lifetime earnings, from child-rearing to the glass ceiling. Of interest ( Read more... )

In today's SMH, Miranda Devine writes in praise of Bettina Arndt for calling on married women to return to their "wifely duty" and provide sex for their husbands. Despite feminist retorts, tiredness from housework is no excuse, explains Devine; the latest ABS survey shows that Australian men and women, on average, work the same number of hours when ( Read more... )