Posts tagged womens health
An open letter to my period on the occasion of randomly disappearing for two months.
True Story: How To Reclaim Your Sex Life After Surviving Sexual Assault
One in every five women has been sexually assaulted. And most of those assaults happen before the age of 25. I am a woman.
I’m 25 years old, and I am part of the 20 percent of women who have been raped. It’s one of the hardest things I’ve had to accept about myself, and it’s one that’s not frequently talked about.
Pediatricians urged to advance-prescribe the morning-after pill to teens.
Vigil For Savita TODAY (Tuesday) At The Irish Embassy In New York City
The Soapbox: How I Lost Faith In The Pro-Life Movement
The spring of my sophomore year of college I was president of my university’s Students for Life chapter. The fall of my junior year of college I cut my ties with the pro-life movement. Five years later I have lost the last shred of faith I had in that movement. This is my story.
A Handy Guide To What These Various Old Conservative White Politicians Have Said About Rape
The only exception I have to have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother. I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God. I think that even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.
Missouri To Allow Employers To Refuse To Cover Birth Control, Abortion - The Frisky
Bad news out of Missouri this week: employers and insurers who personally oppose birth control, abortion and sterilization will be able to refuse to cover those forms of health care in their employee’s health insurance. Missouri’s Governor Jay Nixon had vetoed the bill, but earlier this week, the Republican-controlled legislature overrode the veto.
Republican Tom Smith Compares Rape To Child Out Of Wedlock
Oof.
New Hampshire sheriff candidate would use “deadly force” to stop abortions from occurring. (Because that makes sense.)
