Sunday News Round-Up, Stay in the Air Conditioning Edition

Some of my recent posts over at Our Bodies Our Blog, the blog of Our Bodies Ourselves. There are links to lots of stories of interest on OBOS’s on Twitter and Facebook accounts as well.: Women Make Movies: New Releases Include Films on Virginity, Women in Prison and Body Image State by State: Laws Restricting Abortion and Family Planning as of Mid-2013 CIR Prison Investigation Opens Another Chapter on Sterilization of Women in U.S. Keeping Up With Anti-Abortion Attacks in the States Ask the FDA to Approve *All* Emergency Contraception Pills for OTC Access And some guest blogger posts at OBOS: Lessons Learned: Why Midwives Should Matter to Everyone Egg Donation is Made to Look Easy, but Questions and Health Risks Remain Emergency Contraception Can Be Free, But it Takes Planning – And a Prescription Also of interest: Forced Sterilizations and the Future of the Women’s Movement – Salamishah Tillet at The Nation. “the victims of forced sterilization as integral to the future of the women’s movement as the fight over choice” – because when *to* have a child, and having control over that yourself, *is* a matter of choice. In the New York Times: American Way of Birth, Costliest in the World. Honestly, when you figure that the majority of women who have abortions are *already* mothers, healthcare costs are something anti-abortion “pro-life” folks should really look at. Tampons as a feminist issue, via GenderFocus. And not...
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