Finally, the mainstream media has come out with the beginnings of a critical investigation into birthing in Australia. The Herald today published “Fatal flaws in steady rise of caesareans”. Apparently some Sydney obstetricians have opened a bleary eye and started… Read More ›
sexuality and health
Refusing to be ashamed
Audrey Apple, in her non-alliterative RL persona, has written an online column for Adelaide’s Sunday Mail where she freely discusses her experience of two abortions as simple relief, and that she refuses to be shamed for not feeling guilt or… Read More ›
Step up, Rudd: Lib doctors throw down the gauntlet on foreign aid and abortion
This may be a watershed: the Rudd government has been challenged to show its true colours on women’s rights. Way back in the twentieth century, the Liberal government faced a situation where a woman-hating theocon, Brian Harradine, held the balance… Read More ›
Melbourne Anglican Diocese supports the decriminalisation of abortion
Props to the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne! The Bendigo Advertiser reports that they have put in their submission to the Victorian Law Reform Commission‘s examination of the possible decriminalisation of abortion. And the Church is in favour. An all-woman taskforce… Read More ›
Carnival Against Sexual Violence #37
has just been published at Abyss2Hope. There’s a link there to Lauredhel’s post “Naughty little girl”, explains rape apologist Crown Prosecutor in gang rape of ten year old girl , amongst other discussions of the recent furore over the sentencing… Read More ›
An Embuggerance
Author Terry Pratchett has revealed that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. I can only imagine how distressing it must be for someone who has spent his life as a wordsmith to start… Read More ›
Rape in the military
One of the signs of changing attitudes towards rape, and sexual coercion generally in Western society, where it is harder for men now to openly claim that rape is sometimes OK or to believe that sometimes coerced sex is not… Read More ›
Gratuitous John Barrowman blogging
I just realised (watching Torchwood from the beginning on cable) that John Barrowman is about to start this year’s panto season, starring as Aladdin at Birmingham’s Hippodrome. He’s a musical theatre lad from waaaaay back. As I look at his… Read More ›
Ten-year-olds aren’t “asking for it”, Judge.
The ABC reports that the past two years of criminal sentences handed down to Cape York crims will be reviewed. This comes after a gang of nine teenagers and men raped a ten year old Aurukun girl. All of the… Read More ›
Young Women’s Feminist Activism: Medical Students For Choice
I only just found out about Medical Students For Choice. MSFC is a Northern American network of medical students advocating for reproductive rights in general, and for medical student and resident training in particular. 97% of non-metropolitan councils in the… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 