Utterly awful: supporters of Scott Roeder, the murderer of abortion provider Dr. Tiller, tried to raise money with eBay auctions. Link includes pictures of Roeder’s drawings, which are [...]]]> More on the sex offender ruling. This is an ongoing story—let’s continue to hope for policy that differentiates between violent offenders, pedophiles, and people who made stupid mistakes.

Utterly awful: supporters of Scott Roeder, the murderer of abortion provider Dr. Tiller, tried to raise money with eBay auctions. Link includes pictures of Roeder’s drawings, which are just ghastly. Thankfully eBay has removed all the auctions!

Sigh… Planned Parenthood director becomes anti-abortion activist. Unsurprisingly, more and more details just aren’t making sense. We too smell a right-wing ploy.

More on Mexico’s abortion wars.

A visual history of birth control. Pretty neat!

Colbert on gay rights:

Houston may get its first gay mayor.

New study says that larger foreskins may increase risk of AIDS contraction. This is part of a continuing move to increase circumcision, particularly in hard-hit places in Africa.

Good news: Obama lifted the ban on HIV+ people coming into the US.

Oklahoma continues to crack down on teen sexting, and warns teens there are consequences—i.e., the consequences a stupid law creates. Come on, Oklahoma.

Do you suffer from restless vagina syndrome? On women’s sexual dysfunction and profiting from it.

Criminalizing prostitution will be very bad for Rhode Island. Yup.

Story on runaways and underage prostitution. All the more reason to put strong protections in for sex workers and write better sex trafficking laws.

Outrageous: a sixteen year old girl gets life without parole for killing her abusive pimp. Two SCOTUS cases on the docket could keep this kind of nonsense from happening—let’s keep our fingers crossed.

Reproductive justice recommendations from an international panel.

Yet again conservatives move further right: moderate Republican Dede Scozzafava forced out of NY race, essentially by a Conservative candidate. Scozzafave has since endorsed the Democrat—this is going to be interesting. Also in big election news today are two big gay rights initiatives, one in Maine to repeal gay marriage and one in Washington to allow gay partnerships. Tonight’s news will be big, however these turn out.

More on abstinence only and how it does NOT belong in healthcare reform. And here’s some nauseating abstinence-promoting, patriarchy-glorifying young adult “literature.”

The sad plight and oppression of Somalian women. Unsurprisingly, fundies are to blame.

From the animal world: teacher suspended for having his students read about gay animal behavior, the oral sex lives of bats, and four animals with interesting sex lives.

Lastly, the abortion link page and blog list have new additions.

Second, today was [...]]]> First off: this Saturday, 10/24, is the Kentucky Right to Life Convention, and our abortion clinic is expecting an uptick in protesters. Check out Every Saturday Morning to get involved—they will need more escorts than usual. A local anti-choice archbishop is even getting Louisville national attention. Let’s hope this Saturday is peaceful.

Second, today was the Theatair X hearing. The decision, the article says, will probably take a few weeks.

Profile of the most vocal abstinence-only lobbyist.

This’ll get messy: SCOTUS will hear a sex slave case… as in, a sex slave case with a lot of BDSM ramifications.

Inside sex trafficking and why it’s so hard to fight. There’s more on this topic here. Both are long, sad, worthwhile reads.

Very interesting: They shoot porn stars, don’t they? An unflinching look at what goes on in Porn Valley.

And here’s a mean-spirited one: a lesbian teen who took her senior photo in a tux won’t be pictured in the yearbook. Really pitiful.