What We Missed

Public Health researchers released a study noting what many of us have long suspected regarding what happens to women after they are denied abortion care: “When a woman is denied the abortion she wants, she is statistically more likely to wind up unemployed, on public assistance, and below the poverty line.” *and* “[Women] were more likely to stay in a relationship with an abusive partner than women who got abortions.”

Despite some serious strides in the last week, the U.S. is only ranked  79th in the world for female political participation.

UPS is no longer supporting the Boy Scouts due to their anti-gay policies.

G.D. thinks the line for journalistic integrity may have been crossed in Jezebel’s expose of racist teen tweets.

While this slut shaming fool wants us to believe that ‘Broadwell threw herself at Petraeus’,  there are so many other military scandals that are far worse than adults having consensual sex:  “Only 240 cases of sexual assault in the military were prosecuted in 2011, out of more than 3,000 reported cases. The Department of Defense estimates that the number of actual sexual assaults in the military each year is closer to 19,000.”