Category: Reproductive Rights
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It Depends on Your Definition of Tradition
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe birth control debate has focused on single women. However married couples depend on birth control more consistently than single people. I’d like to invite the legislators to include married women in the discussion. There is a disconnect in our understanding of sexual relations in marriage. We laugh about old television…
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Reproductive Rights & Female Status
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe dialogue about women has not been flattering lately. Officially, it’s centered around reproductive rights, but in between the lines the brutal tactics convey something else. Most recently we’ve been confronted with callous hospital policy. One hospital risks a mother’s death from complications of pregnancy. The other keeps a dead woman on…
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Onan and the Patriarchal Agenda
Reading Time: 8 minutesThis issue of women’s rights is at the center of any serious discussion about political reform. It can be argued that women’s rights are synonymous with human rights, or that the repression of women is the foundation of all repression. Every repressive regime in the world has developed a rationale for limiting…
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Nadya Suleman and the Dark Side of Reality
Reading Time: 4 minutesNadya Suleman’s story did not have to go in this direction. However, the headlines have chosen to paint a picture of Nadya Suleman and the Dark Side of Reality. In the last few years two diverse opinions were voiced. One was caring and the other was condemning. Condemnation has been the more…
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The Inhumanity of Patriarchy
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the [intlink id=”904″ type=”post”]last post[/intlink] I talked about the controversial nature of the United States’ pro-natalist policies. Policymakers such as Phillip Longman have admitted that these policies will only be effective under the influence of patriarchal marriage. The implication is that patriarchal marriage eliminates a woman’s control of her own fertility. Patriarchal…
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New America Foundation, Quiverfull and the Attack on Reproductive Rights
Reading Time: 14 minutesOn March 31, an opinion was published on the Yahoo Contributor’s Network concerning a Tennessee mother who had her son baptized without the permission of her estranged husband. in this man’s opinion she should go to jail. ((Poupard, Vincent L. Mother who baptized children without consent needs to go to jail. Yahoo…
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Fatherhood Initiatives and Grothman’s Senate Bill 507
Reading Time: 4 minutesSenate Bill 507 introduced by Wisconsin Republican Senator Glenn Grothman is the last in a series of outrageous attacks on the rights of women, and it signals a clear trend. Senate Bill 507 moves to amend existing state law by “requiring the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board to emphasize (non-marital) parenthood…