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The Reality of Abortion
Recently, I was on a panel about reproductive rights and sexual health and at one point I mentioned a blogger at Pursuit of Harpyness who blogged her abortion experience in detail, including a photo of what came out after she took RU-486. Even though it was a pro-choice audience, they…
Irish president: World leaders backsliding on women’s rights
Women’s rights are under the greatest attack for almost 20 years after a failure of world leaders to continue to support reproductive rights, according to Mary Robinson, the first female president of Ireland. Her comments come amid fears that religious conservatives are eroding support for family planning around the world.…
Hustler’s sex negativity once again reasserts itself
I just want to ditto everything Lindsay says here about Hustler’s idiotic attempt to “defend” reproductive rights by making crass sex jokes about silencing S.E. Cupp with sex. I like to make fun of Cupp’s obvious play-acting at being a fantasy sex kitten for the easily aroused and rather slow-witted…
Republicans take a bold stance in favor of bullying
The relatively good election results on Tuesday are mainly due to the hard work of organizing and educating of liberals supporting everything from labor to reproductive rights. But it's also true that Republicans are kicking ass in the art of burning out all your political capital by being complete and…
Reproductive rights and the power of the secret ballot
Going into the polls yesterday, there was strong reason to worry that Misssippi voters would vote to amend their constitution to declare fertilized eggs to be "persons". After all, a slight majority of voters favored the ballot initiative going in. And the people who strongly favorited it, basically white Republicans, are…
There was a panel, and now there’s a post
Ha! Finally found an outlet so that I can blog a little. I’m at the Feminism 2.0 conference, which is about bringing feminism up-to-date with the netroots world. I’ll admit that I was a little bemused—Jessica Valenti could barely get a panel on the power of blogging at the NOW…
Gay marriage: the ultimate scapegoat
I’m sort of stunned, but here it is (via Figleaf)—a conservative who makes a valid point in an otherwise silly rant based on traditional ideas about forcing people to suffer for “morality”. He’s trying to parse out why voters are pro-choice but still anti-same sex marriage even though reproductive rights…
A new reproductive rights video? Hell yeah!
RH Reality Check: Framing Reproductive Rights from RH Reality Check on Vimeo. This is a fun one, where I debunk some of the favorite terms used by right wing nuts to discredit supporters of reproductive rights, doctors who provide abortion, and general human beings with common sense. I have particular…
All those pills are different pills
Here’s the last of the four videos we’ve released in the RH Reality Check series about reproductive rights. This one is about the difference between emergency contraception, the birth control pill and the abortion pill, and why right wingers are trying to confuse you about it. RH Reality Check: Emergency…
Videos, newspapers, and pills in school!
Marc and I have started a new video series for RH Reality Check, and I’m hoping all you bloggers out there who write about these issues can bookmark it and use it as a tool. The idea is to take on some controversial areas in reproductive rights and health—especially places…
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