Category: reproductive rights
Jan 23 2025
The lack of contraception …
The lack of contraception, and abortion when contraception fails, forces women to refrain from sexual intercourse, for few of us—mostly the naïve—would risk pregnancy, childbirth, and fifteen years of servitude for what is bound to be not even a few minutes’ pleasure.
So, men, note: withholding contraception, and abortion, ensures that any sexual …
Apr 12 2024
Eggs and Chicken and Abortion
(thanks to Dead Wild Roses https://deadwildroses.com/2023/03/05/the-dwr-sunday-religious-disservice-eggs/)
Mar 26 2024
from Decisions and Dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – quotes and notes
When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court?
Her answer: When there are nine.
“[L]egal challenges to undue restrictions on abortion procedures … center on a woman’s autonomy to determine her life’s course, and thus to enjoy equal citizenship stature …” Gonzales v. Carhart
[She …
Feb 27 2024
The Onion on condoms
Be sure to look at both slides, 6 then 7:
https://www.theonion.com/birth-control-myth-vs-fact-1851274941/slides/6
https://www.theonion.com/birth-control-myth-vs-fact-1851274941/slides/7
Jun 01 2022
A great idea from Jodi Taylor
“Helen and I watched a short film about childbirth and it was so gruesome we had to turn it off. She had a stiff drink, I had a cup of tea, and we swore we’d never have sex again.” Jodi Taylor, The Long and Short of It (p181)
But yes! That should …
Aug 07 2020
Tubal Ligation vs. Vasectomy. Hm.
Read Kacey Merced’s post here:
The Primary Axis of Oppression is Based on Sex
Imagine.
Aug 12 2018
Gwynne Dyer (along with half the species) misses an obvious point
I highly recommend Gwynne Dyer’s Climate Wars, but I must say he misses an obvious point, especially evident when he says “There are almost seven billion of us, and it is almost impossible to imagine a way that we can stop the growth before there are eight and a half billion” (p.268) — because it’s …
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