Ovarian Cancer: A Not-So-Silent Killer

My aunt, who just turned 72 a couple weeks ago, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer about eight weeks ago.  Because I’m a lazy grad student who hasn’t had paid work since mid-May, and because I live about five miles away from my aunt, and because her husband has the early stages of Alzheimer’s, I have [...]

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Anti-American Anti-Choicers

Nine Deuce, at Rage Against the Man-chine, called anti-choice activists anti-Americans today. And I’m inclined to agree with her.
In my beloved home state, Colorado, as I’ve reported here before, 20-year-old Kristi Burton and her pals at Colorado for Equal Rights have gathered over 130,000 signatures, ensuring that their proposal to define personhood as beginning [...]

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Oh, Colorado

Know what I love about Colorado?
I love being able to go get myself some birth control anywhere I want (if I have the money for it, that is). I love having information available to me about sex and birth control so that I can make my own decisions about my health. I love [...]

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Hit List, continued

Continued from yesterday:
5) Nebraska District Judge Jeffre Cheuvront
“A Nebraska judge bans the word rape from his courtroom“
Bowen testified for 13 hours at Safi’s first trial last October, all without using the words rape or sexual assault. She claims, not unreasonably, that describing what happened to her as sex is almost an assault in itself. “This [...]

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Hit List

The people or entities listed herein should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.
1) Eastern Michigan University
“Outrage at school’s silence on killing” — Laura Dickinson was raped, asphyxiated, and left to die in her Eastern Michigan University dorm room in December. The school told her parents that she simply died suddenly, despite the fact that [...]

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