Jennie Chancey | December 6, 2011
From Jill Stanek’s blog: Nancy London finds that she’s in the awkward position of having to reverse herself. As a co-author of Our Bodies, Ourselves, published in 1973 (the year the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Roe v. Wade), London was among those who argued – convincingly – that biology was not destiny, that women should [...]
Category: Feminism & Related Issues, Hot-Button Issues, Mothering |
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Tags: birth control, children, feminism, motherhood
Jennie Chancey | December 6, 2011
From LifeSite News: You would think that when researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the University of Pennsylvania determine that something nearly TRIPLES a woman’s breast cancer risk, it would be big news. But not if that “something” is abortion. As LifeNews reported this week, a recent peer-reviewed study shows that abortion [...]
Category: Feminism & Related Issues, Hot-Button Issues |
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Tags: abortion, feminism, Planned Parenthood
Jennie Chancey | December 6, 2011
From a letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal: Spare us the statistics about fewer teen pregnancies and sexually-transmitted-disease rates falling with increased sex education. Abortion-on-demand and widespread birth control may affect the number of teen pregnancies, but they are not doing a lot for our children’s self-confidence, modesty or mutual respect. Are [...]
Category: Sexuality, Training Children |
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Tags: children, Education, parenting, sex ed
Jennie Chancey | December 6, 2011
“Restraints” of “Freedom?” Yes, indeed. We’ve argued this many times, and it is refreshing to see the same lines of logic in this piece. One person’s “freedom” very often results in the oppression or harm of other people. The rise of feminism, the Pill, and other contraceptive forms coincided with a new era of sexuality, [...]
Category: Feminism & Related Issues, Sexuality |
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Tags: Education, feminism, modesty
Tiffany | December 6, 2011
Today, choosing to stay home with your kids is a hard choice. The fact that this is true is made all the more clear by the increasingly smaller number of mothers choosing to do so. More and more it is assumed that children will stay with grandma, relatives, be put in daycare, or go to after-school [...]
Category: Family, Feminism & Related Issues, Mothering |
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Tags: family, motherhood, work