What kind of women are having abortions?
Mike the Mad Biologist reports on a new report by the Guttmacher Institute. He concludes:
61% of women who have abortions already have children. So much for the 'irresponsible slut' propaganda.
Force the GOP candidates to answer whether they support freely available birth control.
Here’s how Christina Page addresses this question: 98 percent of American women have done it. 37 million Americans are currently doing it. Most of the GOP candidates oppose it. What is it? “It” is using birth control. The GOP candidates have made it clear that they oppose the right of…
Pope: Save the environment. Pope’s Critics: Then stop banning condoms.
This post is from Press Esc: The Pope's calls to save the environment [were] met with dismay by critics who have repeatedly pointed out that the Vatican's ban on contraception will effectively negate all attempts at protecting the environment and tacking climate change. "Care of water resources and attention to…
Missouri Mandates Ignorance-Only Sex Education
Last Friday, Governor Blunt signed a bill that mandates that sex ed teachers provide political affiliations and charitable contribution disclosures to the state in order to prevent any teachers possibly affiliated with any reproductive rights centers or groups from teaching about reproduction. It also prohibits schools from obtaining materials from…
Pro-choice, even assuming the fetus is fully human
In this 1971 article, Judith Jarvis Thomson suggests that we’ve spent way too much time and emphasis on the issue of whether a developing fetus is fully human. She doesn’t concede this point (she argues that acorns are not oak trees). Yet she prefers to bring the conversation to what…
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