April 2010

Help Pass the Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Act

The United States doesn’t have a great track record when it comes to sexual and reproductive health. We go back and forth on the Global Gag Rule every presidential term. We have huge numbers of pregnant children and teenagers while we have schools that refuse to teach them how to have responsible sex—or we give our funding for sex education to abstinence-only religious groups. We even have legislators demanding that women get vaginal ultrasounds to have enough “information” before getting an abortion—which is just as good as mandating that women be raped before getting the procedure done. Yeah, none of this is very impressive by any means, and it’s no wonder that we still have many mothers dying every day from being pregnant—many of them still of high school age.

Pro-Choice? Pro-Life? Let's Work Together

I have this crazy, irrational theory that I just came up with while in the shower (where I often receive my craziest, most irrational theories): I think that pro-choice people and pro-life people should work together.

Insane, I know!

As a pro-choice person, I have felt such animosity toward people I dub anti-choice since I can remember. How dare they tell women how to control their own bodies! How dare they try to implement legislation that allows the government to control medical procedures! I still feel this anger, but I’ve realized that my anger, while valid, doesn’t really help anything.

The Bunnies Know Their EC; Why Doesn't the FDA?

Have you seen the bunny video from the Center for Reproductive Rights yet? If not, you have to check it out; it's pretty funny--and pretty accurate:

This video is so funny on multiple accounts--the very animals that are used for testing so often (and usually so unnecessarily, but that's another post) know the facts better than the so-called "experts." They're also notoriously famous for breeding like, well, rabbits. While the issue at hand is a serious one, I applaud the Center for Reproductive Rights for their ingenuity in this campaign.