I first published the following on my blog a year ago. At that time, I was watching the laws I mention in the post unroll across the feminist landscape with horror and a growing resignation that rolling back this tide of anti-choice legislation in the states was going to be a decades-long struggle. I had [...]
Tag Archives | reproductive rights
Chris Christie Says It’s ‘Silly’ to Spend Time Talking Contraception
The contraception debate has caused women to sit up and take notice of the presidential race, if they weren’t already paying attention. I realize it’s a little hard to get excited about this primary season. But mess with a woman’s reproductive rights and you stir up a hornet’s nest. It has served as fuel for [...]
The Sexuality Wars: Women Are Under Attack, But What About Men?
For the past month, I have felt under assault. At every turn, someone in the political space was talking about some aspect of women’s sexuality and doing it in a way that was intended to limit it. My neighbors to the south in Virginia – as well as in other states – were fighting their [...]
There’s More Than One Way to Medicate a Vagina
Whatever happened to good old American ingenuity? What happened to having a back-up plan? All of this bickering about vaginas and amendments, about who’s getting calls from the President and who’s not, about who started cursing at women first and who just followed suit, is missing the point. There’s more than one way to skin [...]
A Practicing Catholic Sends a Letter to Her Bishop
Earlier this week, I wrote a blog for Daily Kos outlining my discomfort around the Catholic Bishops’ attacks against the Affordable Care Act because of a mandate to cover birth control. Since then, I snail-mailed a letter to Bishop Salvatore Cordileone of the Archdiocese of Oakland, California, in the same contribution envelope I was sent [...]
Broads of the Week — 11/11/11 Edition
As The Broad Side is getting off the ground, our hope is to bring you not only amazing content with the posts you’ll find here every weekday, but also to share the best from the around the web on issues that women (and a few very cool guys!) are writing about. This week there was [...]
Seven Years Ago
I was pregnant. I was pregnant with my sons, Nicholas and Zachary. I was about 23 weeks pregnant. I was uncomfortable. Swollen, bloated, exhausted, nauseous. I thought it was just twin pregnancy stuff. A week or two earlier, I’d been kicked out of the only midwife practice I could find that would accept twin pregnancies. [...]
A 21st Century Look At A 20th Century Abortion Law
I’ve been pro-choice since I read Orson Scott Card’s classic Ender’s Game,in which, the government limited the number of children parents could have, based on some sci-fi reason of intelligent selection, only parents who had especially bright children could get a waiver to have a third child who might save the world. I figured if [...]
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The Truth About Mormons and Mitt Romney
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Lego Needs to Hear It’s 2011 for Girls & Women
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I Got Left Behind: Thoughts on School Drop-Out Laws
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A Practicing Catholic Sends a Letter to Her Bishop
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What Women are Learning from The Learning Channel
