Menstrual Magic
The curse, the red tide, my period, my monthly, my friend, on the rag, on the spurt, and on and on. All the jokes, all the whining, all the bitching, all the unfair media portrayal, the cultural...
View ArticleLions and tigers and tenaculums, oh my!
The IUD, I’m beginning to learn, is a much maligned form of contraception. It got a terrible reputation in the US because of all of the furor surrounding the Dalkon Shield in the 1970s, however, the...
View ArticleIUD Insertion!
I inserted my first IUD today! I did it mostly on my own, with my preceptor checking my sounding and talking me through the procedure, and I was amazed by how simple it was. After learning all of the...
View ArticleThe anti-birth control/anti-abortion band wagon
Seems like ever since the FDA announced that two more women have died after taking RU-486, one of the drugs used during a medical abortion, the abortion debate has reached a new pitch as pro-lifers...
View ArticleContra-contraception
Better late than never: check out this article from the New York Times magazine last weekend, which featured a long, in-depth look at the growing anti-contraception movement in America. A few...
View ArticleFDA approves Plan B for OTC sales
This just arrived in my inbox, moments ago. I can’t find a single news story written about this yet, in any of the papers. Is it really possible for a blog to beat the newspapers when it comes to a...
View ArticleNewsworthy 11/11/08
One week after our historic election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States, here’s a very interesting article on what his presidency might mean for Women’s Health (of the...
View ArticlePlan B available, but still not easy to get
This is an interesting story about how difficult it was for a woman to obtain Plan B from Walgreen’s, over on the Consumerist. Apparently the folks at her local Walgreen’s in Oxford, MS, tried to...
View ArticleThe Fight for Planned Parenthood
And now, on to the national scene. As I’m sure everyone knows by now, the House voted last Friday 240 – 185 to defund Planned Parenthood, which has 800 clinics across the nation and provides thousands...
View ArticleThe history of Planned Parenthood
This is a few weeks old, but it’s absolutely fascinating: Jill Lapore’s article Birthright: What’s next for Planned Parenthood in the New Yorker chronicling the history of Planned Parenthood and the...
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