A new World Bank report warns that poor countries, wealthy donors, and aid agencies are losing sight of the value of contraception, family planning, and other reproductive health programmes in helping to boost economic growth. The report – Population Issues… Read More ›
reproductive freedoms
Bill to decriminalise abortion in Victoria
SMH: Vic MP to introduce abortion bill Former Victorian frontbencher Candy Broad will introduce a private members bill into state parliament this week to decriminalise abortion. The Upper House Labor MP announced her intentions to remove abortion from the Crimes… Read More ›
Fundiewatch: a Catholic prenatal diagnosis “counselling service”
Two of our local Catholic hospital networks have collaborated to offer a new so-called “counselling service, dubbed “Mamreh”. These two hospitals combined have a lot of community credibility already, as they provide the vast majority of private-hospital maternity services in… Read More ›
“Only stupid women are breeding” – academipanic from New Zealand
Jim Flynn, Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at a New Zealand university, has pronounced himself the arbiter of which women should be allowed to breed. Note that fathers are completely invisible in his genetic-decay worldview, what could just as easily… Read More ›
Lame jokes
I’m looking at you, Pavlov… Once there was a boy who had no arms, legs, or torso. In other words – he was a head. He used to roll to school, and roll home again. He was teased unmercifully, and… Read More ›
Read ’ems: Young Feminists edition
In today’s Read-‘Ems, I’m taking a break from Aboriginal issues, and focusing on young feminists. Enjoy. 1. On the YP4 (“Young People For”) blog, ojgreer asks “Am I A Feminist?”, and details her feminist awakening from beginning: As a young… Read More ›
Harradine’s poverty legacy continues
Sue Dunlevy writes an excellent column today on the legacy of Senator Brian Harradine, who held the balance of power in the Australian Senate for long enough to drag our foreign aid policy into a position whereby, Dunlevy argues, we… Read More ›
Motherless birthing, and the one-way street of obstetric “choice”
In another case of the disappearing agent, Australian newspapers have been breathlessly reporting the amazing case of an intrepid Australian doctor “performing” the delivery of a healthy baby with nothing but a first aid kit and an oxygen mask –… Read More ›
Maybe they need Bruce Willis for the voiceover
Synchronicity or a trend? Two posts in my feed-reader today which feature forced-birthers using talking fetuses as the sure-fire strategy to convince women that abortion is always always always wrong. Kevin T Keith (yay, a post from Kevin!) at Sufficient… Read More ›
Grrrr.
A fine rant from Amanda: Subsidized day care is murder – inspired by yet more US “pro-life” legislation against contraception that will result in increased abortion rates, the exact opposite of the fewer abortions they say they want. the notion… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 