Rosa Hernandez, a teenage girl in the Dominican Republic, needed chemotherapy for her leukemia. She didn’t get it because she was pregnant, and chemo might possibly cause a miscarriage, and they have a total abortion ban. She and the fetus both died. This bears another going-over. Rosa wasn’t seeking an abortion. She was seeking chemotherapy. But because chemotherapy might possibly have caused a miscarriage – [...]
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Jennifer Kesler
The “Turnaway Study” follows a group of women who received abortions and a group who were denied them due to local laws and looks at their mental, physical and financial well-being to see the impact of being unable to get an abortion. Those who feel abortion should be legal probably won’t be surprised at the results. Those who think it should be illegal probably won’t [...]
Some of you who have dismissed feminism as some man-hating “feminazi” agenda may have recently come to realize that damn, there are some men out there who would like to set back women’s rights. Maybe feminism isn’t so past its expiration date after all. If so, you may be searching for a modern definition of what feminism is. You may be wondering, is it really [...]
A few weeks ago, I was listening to a radio interview with a guy named Nate Silver. He’d created a mathematical model for crunching all the data from all the political polls, plus looking at various past patterns and so on, and distilling all this into amazingly accurate election predictions. His accuracy rating alone was persuasive, but I also understood some of his remarks about [...]
The US talks a lot about freedom and how essential it is to a good life. Freedom may not cure disease, prevent natural disasters or even fix the economy, and yet somehow we realize life just isn’t worth living without freedom. By which of course many Americans mean their own freedom, not yours. Remember: we were blithering about freedom to the king of England as [...]
We hope you’ve enjoyed our coverage of some of the most gobmackingly uninformed bullshit the GOP has spouted regarding women, rape and pregnancy in recent months. Now for a little post-election follow-up. Senate hopeful Tom Smith, who said pregnancy from consensual sex is just like pregnancy from rape, from “the father’s” perspective, lost the election. Richard Mourdock of “rape pregnancies are God’s will” fame lost [...]
More of Penn State’s leaders have been indicted now, following Sandusky’s conviction. The charges are “obstruction of justice, perjury, conspiracy, endangering the welfare of children and failure to report allegations of child abuse.” I hope this is the beginning of a trend. Sadly, it’s really not enough just to punish the child molesters. We have a society that so thoroughly encourages child molestation by ignoring [...]
