Category Archives: Reproductive Health

What the Right Gets Right about Abortion and the Left Doesn’t Get

This gallery contains 3 photos.

The most determined abortion opponents will say or do almost anything in the service of their cause: Distortion, deception, manipulation, intimidation, even murder.  If you were trying to save millions of innocent children from butchers, wouldn’t you do the same? … Continue reading

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 13 Comments

Captive Virgins, Polygamy, Sex Slaves: What Marriage Would Look Like if We Actually Followed the Bible

This gallery contains 1 photo.

Bible believers are beside themselves about the prospect that marriage norms and laws are changing, but let me tell you a secret about Bible believers that I know because I was one. Most don’t actually read their Bibles. If they … Continue reading

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , , , , | 137 Comments

Pamper, pamper, pamper– plus 9 other tips for falling in love with your IUD

This gallery contains 1 photo.

See the interactive slide show at the Huffington Post and vote for your favorite tip. You may have heard that an IUD can give you five to twelve years of never-have-to-think-about-it contraception. You may have heard also that, depending on which IUD you … Continue reading

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 19 Comments

Thirty Signs You’re a Slut

This gallery contains 1 photo.

In middle school, my daughter Brynn went through a phase when she screened new friends by lending them a book, He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut, by sharp-witted, sharp-tongued blogger Jessica Valenti.  Brynn had read He’s a Stud three times.  … Continue reading

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , , , , | 10 Comments

15 Bible Texts Reveal Why “God’s Own Party” Keeps Demeaning Women

This gallery contains 1 photo.

Why can’t GOP politicians trumpet their religious credentials without assaulting women?  Because fundamentalist religion of all stripes has degradation of women at its core. Progressive Christians believe that the Bible is a human document, a record of humanity’s multi-millennial struggle … Continue reading

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , | 102 Comments