I suppose it was inevitable, now that we know that abstinence pledges aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on, the Vatican had to try another approach to bad-mouthing sex and how better to do that than to make women feel guilty for taking the pill:
“The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part […]
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There are simply no words for this, particularly in light of the fact that elected officials in the region just agreed to end FGM with assurances that its practice would be prosecuted!
From All Africa:
“About 500 girls were circumcised in Sebei region over the Christmas period, a sharp rise in Female Genital Mutilation from just 90 […]
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I’m not a Christian, and I’m not into dissing other people’s beliefs, but I have to confess that I’ve never quite bought the thing about immaculate conception. One thing I feel quite confidant about though, if there was a baby Jesus, he was probably a hungry little guy and needed to be fed.
And just a […]
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Hey guess what–if you believe in a woman’s right to have an abortion, you–yes you–are the reason that illegal immigration is a problem. Kudos to the fine folks on a Missouri legislative panel for determining that,
“(A)bortion is partly to blame because it is causing a shortage of American workers.
The report from the state House Special […]
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Press release from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF):
“Teams from the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) are struggling to provide free, quality emergency care to pregnant women and their babies in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti.
Over the last month, hundreds of women have desperately sought emergency obstetric care at Jude-Anne […]
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For all the U.S. pseudo saving of women in Afghanistan, the reality is that it remains one of the most dangerous places on earth to be a woman and the second most dangerous country in the world for a woman to give birth. Read below for FemAid Director Carol Mann’s outstanding analysis of why […]
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As the unspeakable violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo continues, the situation for women and children whose bodies have literally become part of the battlefield of war is urgently dire. In a report for the Belfast Telegraph, Johann Hari describes a visit to the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu:
“It starts with a ward […]
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I fully believe that when John McCain nominated Sarah Palin to be his Veep, he thought he would be viewed as gawd’s gift to women’s empowerment, never mind that he gets a flunking grade on the issues that most impact women’s lives. We totally heart the Daily Show’s Sam Bee for calling out […]
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With a huge h/t to Our Bodies Our Blog for this catch–from an Amnesty report about the treatment of pregnant prisoners in the U.S. prison system:
“Louisiana and the Federal Bureau of prisons have no restrictions on the application of restraints other than specifying that pregnant women should not be restrained facedown in four-point restraints.”
They had […]
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From All Africa:
“Thousands of young girls annually prepare for their initiation into a women’s secret association, Sande Society, which operates mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
As part of their initiation, young women take a vow of secrecy after weeks of training in the forest, promising not to not tell uninitiated girls or men what […]
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