Nellie Bly

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Happy birthday to feminist journalist Nellie Bly.

Paraguay is denying an abortion to a 10-year-old girl who was the victim of rape and incest. 

Norway’s monument to those accused of being witches.

Fox News: “Men should be able to veto abortions.”

A school district in West Texas that offers no sex education is experiencing a large outbreak of chlamydia.

The Satanic Temple is starting a legal fund to win a religious exemption from Missouri’s abortion waiting period and biased counseling.

Emily Nussbaum on Amy Schumer.

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Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.

Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.

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