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“Many of these women who work overseas are separated from their families, work alone, and are subject to modern day slavery conditions, particularly in the Middle East, Singapore, Japan, and the US.”
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“[A] new Health and Human Services Department proposal that would define the pill, the patch, the shot, the IUD, the ring, and Plan B as abortion rather than contraception.”
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“How is simply reaching youth effective or important if they are being hand fed content that is ignorant, racist, sexist or merely marketing product?”
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“Becker, University Professor of Economics and of Sociology, acknowledged that the idea might strike some as “repugnant,” but putting a price tag on immigration could draw more skilled workers here and stem the tide of illegal immigrants—some of who
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“On June 29th, […] Pat Buchanan appeared on a neo-Nazi radio program to promote his new revisionist history of the Second World War, Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
coco wrote:
i don’t understand how the Dept. of Health and Human services could fail to see that limiting access to birth control would contribute to a rise in abortion rates.
and, why should women already dependent on federally funded medical programs be subjected to further insecurity about controlling their fertility?
given that there are racial disparities affecting minority access to medical care, how will this affect women of color and their families? how will this affect their economic status?
further, given the racial disparities in adoption that particularly disadvantage black children, who is proposing redefining adoption laws to benefit them?
and, why would a government agency propose to reject the American Medical Association’s definition of pregnancy in favor of the one offered by “Steadman’s Medical Dictionary” [who?]
i’d like to know if the proposal’s authors actually practice what they preach. Do they reject hormonal birth control themselves? I doubt it, esp. since 40% (nearly half) of American women currently use these methods.
Posted 16 Jul 2008 at 4:13 pm ¶
Lea wrote:
This might be a good time to marry a Canadian. I’m just saying.
Posted 20 Jul 2008 at 2:38 am ¶