This week the Kentucky Senate passed to the floor a bill that forces women to have an ultrasound before getting an abortion [the webpage has been glitchy, so you may have to refresh to get it to load correctly]. Kentucky law already requires counseling, in case you didn’t know. Find your representative’s contact info here [...]
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… and it’s a big one. Remember how no federal dollars can go to abortion? This includes military hospitals. More here. Takes on the [necessary for the 60th vote] abortion clause in the healthcare bill from Feministe, Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards, Cynthia Nixon, and a participant in the National Day of Action opposing Stupak-Pitts. Unsurprisingly on all [...] Your intrepid webmistress apologizes for the delay. And here we go. What is wrong with a country when beating women is more acceptable than men kissing men? Destigmatizing female sexuality, and more on the problems with studying female desire. Meanwhile, this essay digs into “hookup culture” and related misogyny. And, really, vagina mints? Crap like this [...] Speaking of turkeys, the ROCK blogger’s at it again. Debunking of this post is here. The ROCK blogger followed up the first Oprah rant here. Since we at PAPER tend to be a little hedonistic, we’ve come up with a drinking game for reading ROCK blog posts—or anything ROCK produces! ROCK Drinking Game Rules 1 shot for [...] Here’s a cultural shift PAPER can get behind: an argument for premarital sex. It seems especially apropos considering some of the new fundie children’s devotionals. Evidence that abstinence-only doesn’t work continues to pile up—STIs are spreading at “soaring rates.” It’s an interesting week for porn. Sociological Images considers a new doc on the industry, and Jezebel’s take [...] Late in the day, the terrible Stupak-Pitts Amendment was added to the House’s healthcare bill. The amendment, supposedly in an effort to keep federal funds from going to pay for abortions [already covered by the Hyde Amendment and policy PAPER disagrees with anyway], essentially prevents insurance from covering abortions and participating in the new government [...] |
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