HIV-Prevention Female Birth Control In First Field Test

Excellent news. For the first time, trials are beginning for a type of birth control that would allow women to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS, without the need for their partner’s knowledge or consent – a terribly important caveat for far too many women in awful situations all over the world. The new birth [...]

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American Conservatives Freak Over U.N. Sex Education Guide

SO. The U.N. tried to do this responsible, preventative thing by putting together a set of proposed international sex education guidelines, aimed at reducing H.I.V. infections among young people worldwide. Which, great, considering the following sobering facts: – we do not have a vaccine for AIDS – only 40% of young people aged 15 to [...]

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UK Advances Parenting Rights for Lesbians

A law change in England and Wales will now allow women in same-sex relationships to register both their names on the birth certificate of a child conceived as a result of fertility treatment. Female couples not in a civil partnership but receiving fertility treatment may also both be registered. The law is a great step [...]

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10 Year Olds Fully Under Pressure to Have “Perfect” Bodies

According to a study published in the journal BMC Public Health, children as young as 10- and 11-years-old already have notions about the ideal body. An analysis of more than 4,000 students revealed that young girls’ happiness with their body image is directly linked to how thin they are, while boys were happiest when they [...]

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DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK: California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who today eliminated ALL of the state funding for domestic violence shelters. Because clearly, women are second class citizens who do not matter. FAIL, dickbag. If you’re a resident of California, please click on Stop Family Violence’s action alert to urge lawmakers to reinstate funding for the [...]

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Big Tobacco Heads To Africa

Time magazine is reporting that for tobacco companies, Africa is the next great – and unsold – frontier. With relatively few smokers, and increasing disposable income (thanks in part to the commodity booms the continent has experienced over the last couple of years), Africa is a perfect market/target for the greedy tobacco industry. “In Ghana, [...]

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The Government Will Soon Regulate Our Snacking and Nap Times, Because Democrats Are a Bunch of Communist Pansies

Why do Democrats Hate Our Freedoms? • Lawmakers are trying to curb TeeVee commercials for prescription drugs aimed at curing people of preposterous maladies like deficient eyelashes, restless leg syndrome, and male urinary urgency, that may cause obscene side effects like four-hour erections. (Because honestly, wouldn’t a four-hour erection cause urinary urgency and restless leg [...]

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Male Unemployment, Irritability and Depression Are A Woman’s Problem, So Deal With It Bitch, Before I Smack You Again

Roughly 74 percent of the 6 million or so jobs lost in this recession have been men’s, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a statistic which has resulted in the uptick of another one: relationship problems (and subsequent divorces). This because earning a living is still centrally tied to male self-esteem, since Tarzan still [...]

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Planned Parenthood Action

In case you haven’t heard, anti-choice groups all over the country are trying to use health care legislation to strip access to abortion and other reproductive health care from millions of women. Please take a couple of minutes to stand up to these bullies and protect women’s healtchare by just signing your name to a [...]

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Some Guy Named Michael Karolchyk Thinks Dr. Regina Benjamin Is Too Fat To Be Surgeon General

I’ve tried to steer clear of the “controversy” surrounding Surgeon General nominee Dr. Regina Benjamin, as a means of undermining, or at least, not furthering or validating the insanity of arguments pertaining to her weight. Because I don’t see what a person’s weight, color or sex have to do with their mental ability, at all, [...]

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Today’s Headlines: 98 Percent Of Humanity Is Miserable, Rotting Trash

• Amnesty International accused Saudi Arabia today of using its campaign against terrorism as a facade for “a sustained assault on human rights.” Its report states thousands of people have been arrested and detain in virtual secrecy, while others have been killed in uncertain circumstances, following Saudi Arabia’s numerous counterterrorism measures since 9/11 which, combined [...]

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The Bush Administration Impregnated America’s Teens With A Shit Ton Of Babies, And Various Forms Of The Clap

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has released a study, and the findings will make you want to wear a condom while talking to a nun over the phone. Yessiree it seems that the YEARS of declining rates of teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases in American teens during previous presidential administrations, were “reversed or [...]

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The Abortion Issue Snags Health Care Debate Because Of Public Opinion

As if the debate over overhauling health care isn’t precarious enough, lawmakers (across party lines) now appear stuck on the abortion “issue.” House Reps as well as Senators are against voting for a health bill that includes abortion funding, claiming federal tax dollars should not be paying for abortion services. Because certain taxpayers might object. [...]

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Headlines: It Was The Explicit Intention Of The Founding Fathers That Every Fat, High School-Educated American Slob Own Five Handguns, Because Of 9/11

• American demand for handguns (SECOND AMENDMENT!) has fueled a 28 percent jump this decade in world exports of small arms, a global report said today. According to the survey, the U.S. alone was responsible for about half of the worldwide increase in legal international gun sales between 2000 and 2006; the United States now [...]

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Yes We Can, With Fries

The folks at the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) have NestleTM crunched the numbers and released their report on American obesity, and oh boy is it a doozy. The F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America 2009 has revealed these whoppers: • In the [...]

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You Can Get Swine Flu From A Telenovela

STAND UP! BE HEARD! THE PURITY OF WHITE PEOPLE AMERICANS IS BEING COMPROMISED! Did you know, that every single bloody person who lives in this country, outside of the few remaining and indigenous people (Natives), is an immigrant? Did you know the Europeans who settled and plundered this land, and the West Indies, and Africa, [...]

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