Karen Cunagin Sypher was found guilty of attempting to extort money from University of Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino after the two had a sexual encounter in a Louisville restaurant in 2003. Although Sypher had claimed that Pitino raped her, no charges were ever brought against Pitino. Pitino is married and the father of [...]
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An FDA advisory panel has officially approved Ella, the newest version of emergency contraception. Dubbed the “week after pill,” the drug works similarly to Plan B, but extends the window of effectiveness to up to 5 days after unprotected sex (Plan B currently protects only up to 72 hours). Furthermore, Plan B decreases in effectiveness [...]
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Following in the very noble footsteps of Pat Roberston, Jerry Falwell, and their ilk, a Houston minister has declared the latest oil spill crisis was the fault of…abortions! Preacher Joseph Herrin has announced that the Spirit of Christ revealed to him a parable in the BP Oil Spill: that Planned Parenthood, and abortion-rights advocates were [...]
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I received an email from NARAL Pro-Choice America announcing their 2010 “Who Decides?” report. This annual report shows, on a state-by-state basis, how the laws and practices in each state impact a woman’s reproductive freedom. The factors include “access to abortion, making birth control harder to obtain, and attempting to drive abortion providers out of [...]
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As I’ve written before, I’m a resident of Northern Virginia. I’m almost embarrassed to say that because the politics of Virginia have been very conservative over the years. And now we have a governor (Bob McDonnell) who is a far right-wing Republican and has caused recent uproar with his executive order allowing gay employees to [...]
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I had a bad feeling about Chris Christie back in October. In the New Jersey gubernatorial race, Jon Corzine had explicitly used women’s issues as a major platform to separate himself from his opponent. Christie’s record and stances on women’s health seemed so striking, that this method of attack seemed like the best approach. He lost, [...]
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I happened to be reading today a 1996 article by Henry Morgentaler titled The Moral Case for Abortion. Mogentaler is a physician who survived Auschwitz, moved to Canada, opened Canada’s first abortion clinic in 1968 even though the law at the time was that abortions could only be performed to save the life of a [...]
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