The new Nepalese constitution recognizes reproductive rights.
Alabama approves a few more TRAP laws.
Colombia's most popular telenovela is called "Without Breasts, There's No Paradise," and is about a flat-chested girl who gets implants to improve her life and ends up committing suicide.
Pregnant inmates face serious health risks.
There are more health warnings associated with the birth control patch.
Take action to repeal the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy.
A New York abortion provider is being sued for "masquerading" as a crisis-pregnancy center.
Pennsylvania considers a bill requiring hospitals to offer EC to all rape victims.
Following Spain's lead, India's health minister speaks out against super-skinny models.
Michelle Bachelet speaks out in favor of EC access for Chilean women of all ages.
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Wait, so the centers that pose as family planning clinics are suing a family planning clinic for posing as...a center that poses as a family planning clinic?
My head hurts.
Lunasol, it's more like family planning clinics being sued for posing as a pregnancy "support" center, right-wing clinics that help girls and women through their pregnancies but do not in any way offer abortion as an option.
I was under the impression that the white wing clinics never did much for the babies once they were born in way of financial aid, food, daycare, and the people who run/support them don't even support legal measures to help poor families that they helped put in that situation.
Quel suprise. So they're just counseling services that talk women into having babies.
Re: Columbia.
It is rather sad that our society/culture puts so much emphasis on a body part that has nothing to do w/ kindness or personality.
Mrs. Chief & I have a good friend who, some years ago, confided in Mrs. Chief that she was considering breast augmentation surgery b/c "that is the first thing men look at."
She didn't and eventually found a great life partner. But it speaks volumes about how FUBAR'ed our values are.
Historical footnote to Professor Althouse and her breast-blogging flame war
In 1974 a famous astronaut and a visionary science fiction writer agreed strongly on one thing: Breasts in space would be just too damn distracting. Unlike Althouse, NASA has moved on.
http://letterfromhere.blogspot.com/2006/09/historical-footnote-to-breast-blogging.html
No Lunasol -
Clinics offering an unwanted perspective falsely avertised to women who don't want it. One can hardly speak against protestors standing outside ProChoice clinis yelling their unwanted message at women who don't want to hear it if such actions go uncriticized.
holy jesus, no updates. i'm going to die.
Considering that in India skin-and-bones-level starvation is probably a lot more widespread than in Spain, I would be surprised if super-skinny was considered a sign of the elite/beautiful people there to begin with.