By Carol Hanisch On the heels of our Mother’s Day post on “Birth Regret: A Mother’s Day Truthtelling” comes a chilling report that not only do more women in the United States die of complications from childbirth than in any other…
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Birth Regret: A Mother’s Day Truthtelling
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A Consciousness-Raising Discussion about Motherhood and Birth Regret The public is often harangued with stories of supposed “abortion regret”. A recent on-line discussion resulted with its opposite: birth regret. Women discuss their often mixed feelings about having given birth —…
Surrogacy in the United States
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by KATHY SLOAN for presentation to the UN COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN– CSW 61 “TRADING ON THE FEMALE BODY” MARCH 14, 2017 The practice of commercial surrogacy in the United States is growing by leaps and bounds with…
“Viagra for Women” Pill Fails to Perform
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The “little pink pill”, sometimes referred to as the “Viagra for women”, is having a hard time performing up to its corporate claims. When the drug flibanserin (brand name: Addyi) was approved a year ago by the FDA – supposedly to help women’s…
Military Medical Hypocrisy: Females on the Bottom
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by Ti-Grace Atkinson A few days ago, the Pentagon announced that it was lifting its ban on openly transgendered individuals. The reason given was the need for qualified persons in a volunteer army. The Pentagon has further committed itself—and its…
Short Takes • May 28: Sloppy Science Invoked to Support Trans Ideology
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by Kathy Scarbrough Not a day goes by lately when loving parents can’t be heard spouting some hackneyed sex stereotype (“my son likes pink; my daughter prefers trucks to dolls”) as evidence that their child is the opposite sex “inside”…
Short Takes • March 4, 2016: Abortion
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by Carol Hanisch Anti-Abortionist Legislator Grateful His Grandmother Was Raped? The ongoing attack on abortion rights continues to bring forth revealing anti-woman sentiments from male-supremacist legislators. This week’s doozy came from Texas State Representative Jason Isaac, co-author of the Texas…
Ros Baxandall on Day Care
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SHORT TAKES: February 5, 2016 Introducing a new MEETING GROUND feature We often have links or brief comments that we want to share with our readers that do not really fit an article format. We will try to post at…
Dangerous Federal Decision Claims Being a Woman Is a “Choice”
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by Margaret LeClair Reactions to the November 2015 U.S. Department of Education ruling that a transgender youth who identifies as female must be allowed unrestricted access to girls’ facilities have, for the most part, focused on what this means for…
Housework, Reproduction and Women’s Liberation
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by Carol Hanisch PART II: Who Benefits from Housework? In a city of 500,000 people, containing, say 100,000 working and lower middle class homes, 100,000 women are planning how to get the windows washed, the curtains cleaned, the clothing washed…