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A Birth Control Pill for Men? In Your Dreams
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyNow that the balloons have come down from 50th-birthday celebrations of the Pill, I want to delicately point out the elephant in the room on biological destiny: Women remain the only ones in charge of preventing pregnancy. For those of us who grew up during the post-Pill era, the idea of woman's biological imperative to control her own fertility – the dream of feminists from Margaret Sanger, who Jamie Stiehm so beautifully eulogized, to Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan – surpassed privilege, and became a right before we were born. Whether we opted to take the Pill or not, the ...
How the Pill Liberated My Mother . . . and Me
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyMy father once told me that I was a "mistake." Not a mistake in the sense of: "We wish you'd never been born." But a mistake as in: "We didn't plan on having you." There were probably better ways to have conveyed this message to a child. But my father grew up in mid-century Newark, N.J., the son of an Irish barkeep. He hailed from deep in the heart of Philip Roth territory and they didn't mince words back then. ...
Afghan Mullahs Promote Birth Control to Save Lives
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(March 2) -- Mullahs in Afghanistan are trying new strategies to prevent an ongoing health and economic crisis caused by high fertility and maternal mortality rates: They're passing out birth control pills and distributing condoms. The tactics might come as a surprise, given that women living under the Taliban faced centuries of repression and intolerance, including bans on work, socializing and choice of husband -- often in the name of Islam. But things are changing, and it's that same faith being cited as the motivation behind the bid to improve contraception use and reduce the number of ...
New Green Scheme Fights Carbon Emissions With Condoms
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON -- At next week's U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, world leaders will discuss a range of strategies to cut carbon emissions, such as boosting funding for clean energy projects and providing greater protection for rain forests. But a British charity claims that a cheaper, more effective way to halt global warming has been left off the agenda: birth control. "Every human being has a carbon footprint," says David Burton, an environmental strategist and member of Optimum Population Trust (OPT), whose supporters include famed wildlife documentary maker Sir David Attenborough. ...
Feeling Like a New Woman? That's Evolution
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyEvolution isn't quite done with us yet, according to researchers from Yale University. As reported in The New Scientist, a recent study of more than 2,200 women in Massachusetts indicates that while advances in health care may have pushed "survival of the fittest" towards extinction, differences in reproduction rates are still nudging human DNA into new directions. So, who is this new woman? According to researchers, she's a little bit shorter, a couple pounds heavier, has supremely good blood pressure and -- most interestingly -- she has a longer time frame in which to have children. Of ...
Margaret Sanger: The Other Side of the Story
By Ellen Chesler - Politics DailyEditor's note: Earlier this month, I posted a piece about the astonishing turn of phrase uttered by Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a recent interview. Justice Ginsburg stated flatly that reducing the birthrate among certain populations had been a motivating rationale for early proponents of legalized abortion. Carl Cannon weighed in on July 22 with a historically based article showing that eugenics did indeed play a pivotal role in the thinking of early birth-control advocates, including Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. Walter Shapiro of our staff then suggested that we solicit a different ...
Abortion, Eugenics and the Meaning of Margaret Sanger
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyThere is a disquieting reason Ruth Bader Ginsburg's defenders have been denying, however implausibly, the clear meaning of the Supreme Court justice's recent remarks about the history of abortion law, and that reason is this: Historically, eugenics has always been a significant component of the intellectual underpinnings – and political impetus – of the movement to legalize abortion. ...
Meghan McCain on Sex: Republicans Don't Get It
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyWell, if the guys Meg talked about in her dating story are any indication, it doesn't surprise me.In her newest column for The Daily Beast, Meghan McCain takes on the GOP's party line on sex, talks about the first time she heard about oral sex, and finds common cause with Bristol Palin. Still, for me, the lede is her campaign to get guys to buy more drinks for conservative women:The worst sexual double standard in politics right now is that too many subconsciously believe Republican women are void of sexual desire altogether.So, there you have it, fellas. Just hide that "Yes, We Can" button ...
Bristol Palin Says Abstinence Doesn't Cut It
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIn an interview with FOX News's Greta Van Susteren, Bristol Palin, the 18-year-old daughter of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin discussed her unplanned pregnancy, and the out-of-wedlock birth her son Tripp. She seems like a very loving parent and nice young woman who genuinely wants other teens to learn from her mistakes. In specific she says she has no philosophical or religious issue with teens using contraception, and realizes that abstinence isn't a "realistic" course of action for most people. Watch:Some may be surprised to hear Bristol's views on abstinence, but she's right on target. Studies ...
McCain on Viagra and Birth Control
By David Knowles - Politics DailyHere's the question of the day. Why is John McCain squirming so much in response to the following question?Here's one possible answer. ...
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