Posts Tagged ‘Reproductive Health Reality Check’

“Hide The Salami” Headline Of the Day

Over at Reproductive Health Reality Check, Wendy Norris writes of one possible scenario that could result from Obama's proposed cut of abstinence-only funding: Some Republican will fuck it up. She titles her piece appropriately:

Abstinence-Only Funding Not Dead if Congress Plays "Hide-the-Salami" Again

Norris then proceeds to shower her analysis with a slew of sex puns. Count [...]

Levi Johnston Hits Tyra, Victimizes Self

And we've got the whole, non-white-trashy thing on tape:
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Sarah Seltzer for Reproductive Health Reality Check wonders if Levi is a "victim" in the Palin spotlight. "The Internet is buzzing over Levi Johnston's appearance on Tyra yesterday to 'break his silence,' and providing us all with a reminder that patriarchal policies like abstinence-only education hurt young [...]

The Morning After: Poor Me, Born Sexy Edition

* Great, women claim even more power over Children. The New York Times reports on scientists who have discovered "a surprising new mechanism by which women train their fetuses’ budding immune systems: the mother’s cells slip across the placenta, enter the fetus’s body and teach it to treat these cells as its own."
* Strapped for [...]

The Morning After: Jiminy Cricket Edition

* Reproductive Health Reality Check details the Democratic response to Bush's "conscience rule" for medical providers. Party leaders have said they want to reverse it. What they haven't said is how.
* Wonkette discovers the FOX News Twitter feed hacked by a hillllaaaarious 12-year-old. The tweet? "Breaking: Bill O Riley is gay"
* Gender Goggles collects blogs [...]

A Pro-Choice Cabinet for Obama?

Reproductive Health Reality Check has some advice for our next president on the importance of choosing pro-choice cabinet appointees—and not just in Health and Human Services.

Policing Sex Workers: One in Five Asked For Sex by Cops

In an essay on San Francisco's proposed measure to decriminalize prostitution,  Sienna Baskin and Melissa Ditmore for Reproductive Health Reality Check quote a 2008 report on prostitution in the District of Columbia. The study, conducted by Different Avenues, is dubbed a "Move Along Report," and relates current trends in policing sex [...]