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Latest Anti-Choice Loophole Puts Virginia Women At Risk
On Friday, the Virginia State Board of Health reversed an earlier decision to exempt existing abortion clinics from a 2011 bill which enforces the same building requirements on these clinics as on...
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EAT, People (Not a Zombie Blog)
This is a guest post from the awesomely talented and funny and feminist Katie Goodman. Check out her comedy and other stuff here. I’ve never written about this before, but when I was in high school and...
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Sexy Feminism Excerpt: Lessons Learned from Dieting
To celebrate the publication of our book, Sexy Feminism, we’ll be sharing some short excerpts of it with you, the readers who helped make this book possible! My dieting history is totally cliché and...
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The Pressure to ‘Recover’ from Anorexia
Emma Woolf, author of the memoir An Apple a Day, writes about her journey back from weighing a mere 70 pounds at the height of her eating disorder. Will she ever be recovered? That’s a complicated...
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Choice Redefined
It has been a bad couple of weeks for women’s right to choose. In spite of Texas state Senator Wendy Davis’ incredible filibuster of a draconian anti-abortion bill, the Texas legislature reconvened...
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‘Why Don’t You Just Give the Vagina You Have a Better Life?’
This and other important questions are raised by this 8-minute film we just discovered, Goodnight, Vagina, starring Cheryl Hines and Gary Cole. Reasons you should watch include the following lines: “I...
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Clinical Irony: Obamacare vs. Abortion Rights
Watch the above video with the sound muted. Until the second title card comes up, what point of view do you think it is advocating? With elements like the Big Brother-like surveillance of the...
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“Legal Limbo”
In The Trial, Franz Kafka satirizes the labyrinthine, backwards, and maddening court system by telling the story of a trial in which is utterly lacking in logic, empathy, and concern for the rights of...
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Charity Cases
To be charitable is to give without an expectation of something in return. While giving to charitable organizations in exchange for nothing more than the warm feeling you get when you’ve helped...
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‘After Tiller’: The Lives of the Last Late-Term Abortion Doctors
On May 31, 2009, Dr. George Tiller was shot to death during a church service in Wichita, Kansas. Dr. Tiller was one of only five doctors in the United States who performed abortions after the 20th...
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