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Girls Not Brides, a new campaign against child marriage

Girls Not Brides, a new campaign against child marriage

By Chally on September 20, 2011

From the press release: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Dr Gro Brundtland and Mary Robinson will draw global attention to the neglected issue of child marriage during the United Nations General Assembly week in New York, 19-23 September. [...] Each year, an estimated 10 million girls are married worldwide before the age of 18. That’s more than [...]

Posted in gender & feminism, health, medicine | Tagged birth, birthing, children, children's rights, girls, marriage, pregnancy, reproduction, reproductive choice, reproductive freedoms, reproductive justice, reproductive justice, reproductive rights, young mothers | 4 Responses

Quick Hit - World Health Day and a Voice For Choice

Quick Hit – World Health Day and a Voice For Choice

By Mindy on April 7, 2011

April 7 is World Health Day. Mothers for Choice are having a blogswarm on why Abortion is a health issue not a crime.

Posted in Culture, education, gender & feminism, health, law & order, Life, medicine, Politics, social justice, Sociology | Tagged abortion, blog for choice, reproductive choice, reproductive justice, sexuality and health, social change | 1 Response

Femmostroppo Reader - July 19, 2010

Femmostroppo Reader – July 19, 2010

By tigtog on July 20, 2010

Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

Posted in culture wars, linkfest, violence | Tagged autism, domestic violence, rape culture, Read-ems, reproductive choice

Quickhit: alpha status now assured

By Mary on March 20, 2010

Carol Nader reports in the SMH today that the Official Generation Code-Naming Authority?—?there is one, right? an important body that declares that Generation Z is so 2009??—?has decided that as of the 1st of January, Generation Alpha is being born. (Apparently we aren’t yet using non-ASCII characters here in the future.) This means of course [...]

Posted in health, relationships | Tagged childhood obesity, reproductive choice, social change | 3 Responses

That Homebirth Study in South Australia

By Lauredhel on January 16, 2010

Planned home and hospital births in South Australia, 1991-2006: differences in outcomes Robyn Kennare, Marc Keirse, Graeme Tucker and Annabelle Chan, MJA 192(2), 18 January 2009 You’re going to be hearing a lot from the Australian Medical Association about That Homebirth Study In South Australia, so here are a few actual facts to be getting [...]

Posted in gender & feminism, medicine, Science | Tagged AMA, australia, birth, bodily sovereignty, episiotomy, home birth, homebirth, hospital birth, intervention, labour, medical journal of australia, midwifery, midwives, morbidity, mortality, NICU, perinatal, pro-choice, reproductive choice, reproductive justice, risk, safety, statistics, stillbirth | 25 Responses

Things that are not our business, Duggar edition.

By Lauredhel on December 17, 2009

I don’t suppose anyone has a cite for this? “Every time you have a pregnancy, the placenta implants in the uterus and that implantation site cannot be used again because it’s scarred,” said Dr. Diane Harper of the University of Missouri in Kansas City. [source] There’s also a bizarre statement about how the “weakened” pelvic [...]

Posted in gender & feminism | Tagged babies, birth, disability, obstetrics, pro-choice, reproductive choice, reproductive justice, sexuality and health | 27 Responses

Rally in Canberra September 7: Homebirth: What’s the Crime? Guest post by Janet Fraser

By Guest Hoyden on June 29, 2009

This is a guest post by Janet Fraser, National Convenor of Joyous Birth, the Australian homebirth network, also blogging at Looking Glass Alice. It is cross-posted here. With a background in academia and feminist activism, Janet brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to running the world’s only forums solely devoted to homebirth. HOMEBIRTH: WHAT’S [...]

Posted in gender & feminism, law & order | Tagged activism, australia, autonomy, birth, bodily sovereignty, feminist, homebirth, human rights, insurance, midwifery, midwives, pro-choice, protest, rally, reproductive choice, reproductive justice, violence | 2 Responses

Feminism and birth in Australia: moving from stat-wrangling towards a reproductive choice perspective

By Lauredhel on April 11, 2009

I’ve been looking for the most recent official stats on homebirth and hospital birth mortality in Australia. I can’t find 2007 or 2008 figures, but there are 2006 figures available. Australia’s mothers and babies 2006 The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Perinatal Statistics Unit, Published December 2008. Most births in Australia occur in hospitals, [...]

Posted in gender & feminism, health, law & order | Tagged AMA, australia, birth, bodily sovereignty, home birth, homebirth, hospital birth, moral panics, morbidity, mortality, pregnancy, pro-choice, reproductive choice, reproductive justice, reproductive justice, safety, statistics, stillbirth | 22 Responses

Douchebag oTY contestant: “Uh oh” nurse routinely pulls IUDs out

By Lauredhel on January 19, 2009

Turns out yesterday’s Douchebag of the Year contestant has a competitor. Already.

Posted in ethics & philosophy, gender & feminism, health, medicine, violence | Tagged assault, contraception, doctors, douchebag, misogyny, pro-choice, pro-life, reproductive choice, reproductive justice | 16 Responses

Third Debate Thoughts, and Video of McCain’s air-scarequotes “health of the mother”

By Lauredhel on October 16, 2008

My first impression thoughts of the third presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, mostly grabbed from my twitter feed: – McCain choked on addressing Obama as “Senator Obama” at the opening, unless there was a glitch in the CNN audio. “Mmmmfnator Obama”. – Obama a very obvious winner with the worm audience on [...]

Posted in education, health, Politics | Tagged cnn, elections, reproductive choice, reproductive justice, sarah palin | 31 Responses

Angst in the papers

By tigtog on October 13, 2008

This morning’s editorial in The Age is muted with respect to the two laws passed regarding reproductive choice in Victoria last week, opining that the abortion decriminalisation legislation goes too far with its explicit negation of a conscience clause, and the fertility intervention extension legislation (allowing access to IVF for single and lesbian women) doesn’t [...]

Posted in culture wars, education, gender & feminism, history, media | Tagged abortion, exploitation, gratuitous ogling, moral panics, reproductive choice, reproductive justice, sexuality and health, social change, victoria | 16 Responses

Nuance for Dummies

By tigtog on October 9, 2008

The wingnuts continue to wag fingers at feminists for not supporting Gov. Palin’s election campaign. The way these loopers misrepresent feminist positions would be comical if it wasn’t so agenda driven. Jim Quinn (paraphrased): feminists simply can’t stand that Palin didn’t join the Abortion Cult when pregnant with her son Trig. WRONG: Palin made a [...]

Posted in culture wars, ethics & philosophy, gender & feminism, media, Politics, relationships, work and family | Tagged elections, feminists, peeves, reproductive choice, reproductive justice | 1 Response

Wallowing in victimhood in our purple ghetto

By Lauredhel on September 5, 2008

And the “fair and balanced” mainstream media quote of the day goes to … The Australian! From “Redefining feminism: Have activists morphed into female chauvinist piglets?”: Unlike the professional feminists who love to wallow in victimhood in their purple ghettos, Ms Palin exuded strength in her first major speech of the campaign. Like Margaret Thatcher [...]

Posted in culture wars, gender & feminism, media, Politics, social justice | Tagged bigotry, feminists, mainstream media, reproductive choice | 134 Responses

Pennsylvania Primary: what are the good reasons and what are the bad reasons to vote for either Dem candidate?

By tigtog on April 23, 2008

Just a nod to the fact that a majority of my readers are US voters, some of them are in Pennsylvania, and the polls have not yet closed. It’s still the 22nd over there. It’s a no-brainer that with all the animosity between the two campaigns, there are people who have become intransigent and who [...]

Posted in Politics | Tagged barack obama, Hillary Clinton, john mccain, race & racism, reproductive choice | 15 Responses

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