The movie titled Unpregnant has been on my list for a while, but I’ve just subscribed to CRAVE. One, I was appalled to see that the movie is categorized as a comedy. I suspect the categorizing is done not by CRAVE staff, but according to the movie’s submitted metadata, which means it’s the writer, director …
Category: abortion
Feb 23 2025
Use protection. Use contraception. A HUGE difference.
When we talk to/about men and condoms, we say ‘Use protection’, but when we talk to/about women about various options, we say ‘Use contraception’. The difference is NOT insignificant. In the second case, we’re talking about preventing conception, about not becoming pregnant, about not becoming a parent. In the first case, we’re talking about protection …
Feb 08 2025
Abortion bans linked to people leaving states – duh.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abortion-ban-laws-linked-to-people-leaving-states-research/
Jan 08 2025
“Your body, my choice.” WTF?!
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/11/business/your-body-my-choice-movement-election/index.html
May 16 2024
If men could get pregnant …
“She glances down at the members of Parliament strolling in across the pea-green carpet below. Suits, bald heads, and shoes shinier than mirrors. The men who never in their lives had to worry about getting pregnant, dying in childbirth, or trying to access an abortion within their own restrictive system.” Looking for Jane, Heather Marshall …
Apr 12 2024
Eggs and Chicken and Abortion
(thanks to Dead Wild Roses https://deadwildroses.com/2023/03/05/the-dwr-sunday-religious-disservice-eggs/)
Dec 20 2023
Pat Murphy’s “Motherhood” – well worth the quick read
And it’s here: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/motherhood/
Nov 21 2023
“If you can’t trust me with a choice …”
“If you can’t trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?” brilliant bumper sticker from The Onion
Aug 09 2023
Dawkins (and Monty Python) on the ‘human potential’ argument against abortion
“[T]he logical conclusion to the ‘human potential’ argument [against abortion] is that we potentially deprive a human soul of the gift of existence every time we fail to seize any opportunity for sexual intercourse. Every refusal of any offer of copulation by a fertile individual is, by this dopey ‘pro-life’ logic, tantamount to the murder …
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