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What Every Red State Resident Should Know about Birth Control Options

Posted on March 27, 2023 by Valerie Tarico

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Some birth control options are 100 times more reliable than others. Continue reading →

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Men Should Be Able to Express Opinions and Feelings about Abortion

Posted on March 19, 2023 by Valerie Tarico

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I don’t see any way to deny the validity of male voices in abortion conversations without broadly trashing the human capacity to empathize and perspective-take and wrestle with moral questions. Continue reading →

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$100M Jesus Ads Point to Exploitable Weakness in Religious Right

Posted on February 20, 2023 by Valerie Tarico

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The people paying for this ad campaign are the same ones promoting homophobia, advocating against reproductive healthcare for women, and funding politicians to protect the good old pecking orders: rich over poor, men over women, pasty white people over everyone with more melanin. Continue reading →

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Abortion isn’t the Only Part of Women’s Healthcare That Just Lost Half a Century

Posted on February 18, 2023 by Valerie Tarico

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Leading with a diaphragm that will fail 1 in 5 women during a single year over an implant that will fail 1 in 2000 leads to less reproductive empowerment, not more. One might think of it, in fact, as a form of stochastic coercion; you don’t know who is going to get forced by contraceptive failure into a baby they didn’t want, but you know for sure that someone will. Continue reading →

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Shun, Exclude, Expel, Ostracize, Exile—The Power of Silence and Separation—And Staying Engaged

Posted on December 5, 2022 by Valerie Tarico

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Being excluded activates the same brain pathways as physical pain. A few days after Thanksgiving 2022 a sad little article flitted across my newsfeed. After a group of friends removed a 13-year-old Italian girl from their group chat (as a … Continue reading →

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