Today in Not Being Helpful: A measure advancing in the North Carolina legislature would require teens to obtain notarized, written parental consent in order to access a range of health services, including testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, birth control prescriptions, pregnancy … Read more →
Two things make me want to write this post: #TellAFeministThankYou, which is happening on Twitter right now, and Suzanne Venker’s latest assertion that “Feminism didn’t result in equality between the sexes, it resulted in mass confusion.” I’m a big fan of … Read more →
Remember our recent discussion about the alarming trend toward criminalizing the actions of pregnant women, including that of a teenage girl in Utah who paid someone to beat her up in an attempt to induce a miscarriage? Yeah, about that: … Read more →
I’ve come across an interesting confluence of articles about pregnancy and family planning today.The first is from Steph Herold at RH Reality Check, and it’s about ambivalence over pregnancy: [I]t’s not teens that have the highest unintended pregnancy rates, but young … Read more →
Today (or the 22nd, anyway) is the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. People have been writing all sorts of interesting things, and unfortunately I haven’t had the time to read them all, but I just wanted to put out … Read more →
Pregnancy can certainly be scary. Even for those of us fortunate to have access to good medical care, pregnancy still presents a risk of serious health complications and death. For women in abusive relationships, abuse frequently escalates with the discovery … Read more →
I recently attended a screening of the Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, which is about a woman helping her friend obtain an illegal abortion in 1980′s Bucharest. The trailer is a little strange, but the film … Read more →
Savita Halappanavar died when doctors refused to complete a miscarriage, citing Irish anti-abortion laws. From RTÉ News Ireland: Praveen Halappanavar has given instructions to his solicitor Gerard O’Donnell to proceed with an application to the European Court of Human Rights. … Read more →
Recently I wrote a post about the low U.S. birth rate, comparing the past several generations to make the point that population strongly correlates with economic conditions. That’s still true, but Carl Haub writes for the Population Reference Bureau that, as … Read more →
The case of Savita Halappanavar, who died in Ireland because doctors refused to complete a miscarriage, is unfortunately not an isolated incident. Marta María Blandón reminds us that harsh anti-abortion laws in Nicaragua and El Salvador result in women’s deaths from lack … Read more →