Sunday News Round-Up, Conference Then Vacation Edition
First up, some recent posts from Our Bodies Our Blog:
How Can We Help Teen Mothers Avoid and Cope With Postpartum Depression? – discussion of a study that tried to answer that question
Study: IUDs Offer Safe Contraception Option for Teens But Rarely Prescribed – analysis of a study looking at IUD use in adolescents, with data on complications
Supreme Court Hears Case Against Myriad Genetics: Why Patents Hurt Women’s Health – OBOS is a co-plaintiff in the case against BRCA1 an BRCA2 gene patents. I look at the oral arguments.
“Can We See the Baby Bump, Please?”: Film on Commercial Surrogacy in India...
Source: Women's Health News - April 28, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Abuse, Rape, & Safety Access, Rights, & Choice Adolescent Health Body Image & Eating Disorders Cancer Contraception Drugs Events & Observances Government Health Research Laws, Legislation, & Courts Libraryland Miscellane Source Type: blogs
Sunday News Round-Up, OMG the Next Three Weeks Edition
First up, some brief comments on Gosnell:
The “care” women received from Dr. Kermit Gosnell is abhorrent. The idea that nobody is covering it is not true, however. It was covered extensively when many details first became known in 2011. Here’s my own post on the issue. It is also not representative of abortion care or even late-term abortion care (which is extremely limited) in this country. A woman is more likely to die from pregnancy than abortion in the United States. There absolutely was a failure to inspect and act on his clinic. That is a failure to do what they were *supposed* to do – and no ...
Source: Women's Health News - April 14, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Abuse, Rape, & Safety Access, Rights, & Choice Body Image & Eating Disorders Contraception Drugs Ethics Government Laws, Legislation, & Courts Miscellaneous News Round-Ups Pregnancy ART comics emergency contraception Source Type: blogs
A Genetic Picture of Me – 23 and Me Testing
I recently did 23 and Me genetic testing, which provides a ton of info on genetically linked health issues and traits, as well as genetic ancestry data. I’ll probably post something on the health data at some point, but I thought it would be fun to share the ancestry portion of my results. I was curious as to how they’d come out genetically, given that I’m what many people would call “1/4″ Korean.
Reminder: I’m allowed to call myself a mutt. Other people, not so much. Jokes about my ancestors getting around, historically speaking, are fair game. Click to embiggen. Set on Standard comp...
Source: Women's Health News - April 7, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Miscellaneous 23 and me ancestry genealogy genetic testing genetics haplotype A4 neanderthal Source Type: blogs
Over at OBOS: Expanding Abortion Provider Types, and Fertility Clinic Advertising
Couple of recent things over at the Our Bodies Ourselves blog:
What’s Wrong With Fertility Clinics and Online Advertising – about the kinds of information on fertility clinic websites, and why it might need better oversight. A version of the article was originally published in The Women’s Health Activist, the newsletter of the National Women’s Health Network, and is republished/adapted with permission. What I wasn’t able to get into for theme/space was the overwhelming whiteness of most of the sites, which I have in mind for a follow-up post here at some point. When these clinics try to present magic mira...
Source: Women's Health News - April 7, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Access, Rights, & Choice Advertising/Marketing Pregnancy fertility clinics infertility IVF nurse practitioners nurse-midwives OBOS Our Bodies Our Blog Our Bodies Ourselves physician assistants websites Source Type: blogs
It Wasn’t Even An April Fool’s Joke: Tennessee Women Jailed for Drug Use While Pregnant, Even Though Law Said They Couldn’t Be
Via the Tennessean:
Tennessee women who take illegal drugs during their pregnancy cannot be arrested for the harm they do to their babies. But some ended up in jail anyway.
That’s because some police and prosecutors — unaware state law changed last year — pursued criminal charges thinking they had the authority to do that. They did not realize lawmakers eliminated their ability to charge women with assault or homicide against their unborn children.
Even the state attorney general overlooked the change when he issued a written opinion Jan. 7 about whether women could be prosecuted.
Well, that just fills me with confid...
Source: Women's Health News - April 2, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Access, Rights, & Choice Birth Ethics Government Pregnancy addiction NAPW reproductive justice Tennessee war on drugs Source Type: blogs
V-Day at Vanderbilt University Presents: A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer 2013 – Nashville, TN
Announcement for an event tomorrow, Wednesday March 27th at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN (6-8pm).
Vanderbilt Feminists in partnership with VUEES is happy to present “A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer.”
This is a groundbreaking collection of monologues by world-renowned authors and playwrights, edited by Eve Ensler and Mollie Doyle. These diverse voices rise up in a collective roar to break open, expose, and examine the insidiousness of violence at all levels: brutality, neglect, a punch, even a put-down. The reading will feature members of the Vanderbilt community who are proud to speak ou...
Source: Women's Health News - March 26, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Events & Observances v-day Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Feminists Source Type: blogs
Sunday News Round-Up, Gloomy Sunday Edition
Some interesting and important resources and stories that have caught my eye over the past week:
Reviews of sports bras for big boobs.
A couple of my recent Our Bodies Ourselves posts:
Are Right-to-Know Breast Density Laws Good for Women’s Health?
Rally at the Supreme Court – Breast Cancer Gene Case to be Heard Next Month
Also of interest: FDA Approves Silicone Gel Breast Implant Without Public Meeting
Also Supreme Court-related, gay marriage is up this week. Lots of wonky coverage on SCOTUSblog, if you’re not familiar with that source.
Steubenville’s Jane Doe asked people to do something
This is just…no...
Source: Women's Health News - March 24, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Abuse, Rape, & Safety Access, Rights, & Choice Adolescent Health Birth Boobs Cancer Contraception Drugs Ethics Events & Observances Global Issues Government HIV/AIDS Laws, Legislation, & Courts Miscellaneous News R Source Type: blogs
LGBTI Health Fair This Saturday – Nashville, TN
An LGBTI health fair being run by the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine’s Program for LGBTI Health is taking place this Saturday, March 23rd at the One Hundred Oaks mall from noon to 4:00 pm.
Services will include diabetes, HIV, and blood pressure screening and other resources. There will also be food, and entertainment by the Nashville in Harmony choir. The event takes place in the first floor conference room; use the “A” entrance on the back side of 100 Oaks.
If you need to take the bus to get there, you’ll want the #17 (12th Avenue South) bus route.
Here’s the flyer:
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Source: Women's Health News - March 22, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Uncategorized blood pressure diabetes health fair HIV/AIDS LGBT LGBTI Nashville screening Source Type: blogs
Farewell, Mr. Miles
Miles like to make pillows of the other cats.Last night, our beloved 13 year-old cat Miles died. He wasn’t sick for long, and we were petting him as he died. Miles is the one who taught us how to love cats, and I’m going to miss him very much.
As I did with Ella and Otto, some Miles memories:
Miles was Joel’s and my first pet together. We were living in an apartment and couldn’t get a dog, which both of us were more familiar with. We went to the PetSmart in Knoxville, TN where a local org did adoptions and picked him out when he was about 3 months old.
The adoption people let us take him with us ar...
Source: Women's Health News - March 11, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Miscellaneous cats grief Miles Source Type: blogs
Sunday News Round-Up, Catastrophizing Edition
In Texas, Restoring Family-Planning Cuts Without Ruffling Feathers
Using taxpayer dollars to finance family-planning services has become politically thorny in Texas, largely because of Republican lawmakers’ assertions that the women’s health clinics providing that care are affiliated with abortion providers. In the fiscal crunch of 2011, the Legislature cut the state’s family-planning budget by two-thirds, with some lawmakers claiming that they were defunding the “abortion industry.” Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, found that more than 50 family-planning clinics had closed statewide as a result....
Source: Women's Health News - March 10, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Abuse, Rape, & Safety Access, Rights, & Choice Drugs Ethics Events & Observances Global Issues Government Laws, Legislation, & Courts Miscellaneous News Round-Ups abortion providers appreciation Arkansas birth control Source Type: blogs
Proposed Forced Ultrasound Legislation Withdrawn in Tennessee
Forced Ultrasound and Post-Ultrasound Waiting Period for Abortion Proposed in Tennessee – My analysis of the bill from last month.
Jim Tracy Withdraws His Ultrasound Bill – includes discussion and speculation on SJR127, the proposed state constitutional amendment that would allow more restrictions after passage and allow a total ban in the unlikely event that Roe were overturned. SJR127 going to a vote by Tennesseans in 2014, so that’s not likely to turn out well for reproductive justice in this state.
The sponsor of the forced ultrasound bill made a statement like they were withdrawing this bill in orde...
Source: Women's Health News - March 8, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Access, Rights, & Choice Ethics Government Laws, Legislation, & Courts forced ultrasound SJR 127 SJR127 Tennessee Tracy Womick Source Type: blogs
Sunday News Round-Up, Awesome Afghan Edition
I just read through the CDC’s first ever report on interpersonal and sexual violence by sexual orientation, and it’s depressing as hell. I should have more info up at Our Bodies Our Blog this week.
Also at OBOS, I point to the Selling Sickness conference I would have liked to have attended, and we have a guest item on new coverage may spur younger women to use long acting contraceptives.
More forced ultrasound for abortion, this time in Indiana, for medication abortion.
A list of pro-choice films – I’ve seen If These Walls Could Talk and The Education of Shelby Knox, how about you?
More in things ...
Source: Women's Health News - February 24, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abuse, Rape, & Safety Access, Rights, & Choice Contraception Drugs Government Laws, Legislation, & Courts Miscellaneous News Round-Ups Pregnancy Abortion advertising Alabama audi cultural appropriation domestic violence emerg Source Type: blogs
#LiberalTips2AvoidRape – More Proof That Conservatives Should Avoid Rape Talk
I honestly don’t understand what makes some conservatives believe that they can talk about rape without royally screwing it up, because we saw another example today that they can’t.
The use of the hashtag #LiberalTips2AvoidRape has been honestly one of the most ignorant, vile, women-hating, and victim-blaming things I’ve ever seen in such a concentrated way on Twitter.
Colorado State Rep Joe Salazar, a Democrat, in expressing support of banning concealed guns on college campuses, made an inelegant statement about women not needing guns to prevent attacks because of the availability of call boxes and whis...
Source: Women's Health News - February 20, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abuse, Rape, & Safety Access, Rights, & Choice conservatives misogyny OMG Todd Akin is almost reasonable compared to these people social media Twitter violence Source Type: blogs
Forced Ultrasound and Post-Ultrasound Waiting Period for Abortion Proposed in Tennessee
A bill has been proposed in the Tennessee legislature that would force pregnant women to obtain ultrasounds prior to having an abortion. The bill would also impose a 24-hour waiting period between the ultrasound and the abortion.
As introduced, requires that an ultrasound be performed prior to an abortion, with an exception for medical emergencies. The bill tries to avoid controversy about transvaginal ultrasound that has encouraged opposition to other forced ultrasound bills, by saying it should be an transabdominal ultrasound. This is still forced use of a medical procedure with absolutely no medical indication, and with...
Source: Women's Health News - February 11, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Abuse, Rape, & Safety Access, Rights, & Choice Ethics Government Laws, Legislation, & Courts Pregnancy consent forced ultrasound HB 984 Jim Tracy medical abuse by legislators Republicans SB 632 Tennessee Source Type: blogs
Sunday News Round-Up – Dolly Parton Flips the Bird Edition
Tennessee state Senator Stacey Campfield brought back the “Don’t say gay” bill to forbid teachers from discussing sexualities other than heterosexuality. He was rightfully mocked on the Colbert Report for this and other bills he’s filed. The bill (SB 234) technically forbids discussion of anything “inconsistent with natural human reproduction” – because, you know, all sex results in reproduction and all straight people are capable of reproducing. Worst, though, is that it requires teachers and school counselors who talk to a student who might be questioning their sexuality to notif...
Source: Women's Health News - February 10, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Abuse, Rape, & Safety Access, Rights, & Choice Adolescent Health Birth Breastfeeding Ethics Government Infectious Diseases Laws, Legislation, & Courts Miscellaneous News Round-Ups Sex & Sex Education Armenia birth cent Source Type: blogs
