Tag Archives: Pregnancy
It’s Still A Man’s World: The Male-Dominated Abortion Discussion and Why It’s Weird
TweetI miss the days when men were afraid of childbirth; when they would take to the road in anxious desperation, trying to hide the grotesquely bloody scene behind them in a cloud of kicked-up dust. I almost miss the days when a woman on her period was considered unclean, because at least then she would [...]
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“This is a Catholic country”: Savita Halappanavar’s unnecessary death
Tweet On November 13 the Irish Times reported on Savita Halappanavar’s unnecessary death. They wrote: Savita Halappanavar (31), a dentist, presented with back pain at the hospital on October 21st, was found to be miscarrying, and died of septicaemia a week later. Her husband, Praveen Halappanavar (34), an engineer atBoston Scientific in Galway, says she asked several times over a [...]
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Rape and other demons
TweetThe problem with being a perennial cribber is that the moment you take a break to catch a breath, the world turns tables to embarrass you, to tell you that you slacked. I am on a fellowship with the World Press Institute in the United States with nine more journalists from different parts of the [...]
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On the sexual double standard
Tweet Ain’t that the truth?! It seems quite impossible to deny the fact that the issue of abortion or contraception would be entirely different if men could become pregnant. I really truly believe abortion would not even be an issue in any election if it was not tied to women’s rights. It seems to be [...]
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Mother’s Day is Over – But Pregnancy Discrimination Isn’t.