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Again with the thinking that women having knowledge is dangerous or scary or just plain bad.
Birth control prices going up on college campuses.
South Carolina wants to force women to look at ultrasounds before having an abortion. Thoughts on that at Aunt B’s and in this previous post. Also, the underlying assumption that these silly women just haven’t *thought* about it is especially offensive.
Ohio Governor to defund abstinence-only sex ed.
The American Medical Women’s Association thinks women 30 and over should also be receiving the HPV vaccine, and has released a statement on cervical cancer prevention.
Anti-abortion folks are targeting urban, African-American women with their campaigns.
The CDC has adopted recommendations on HPV vaccination.
The Lactivist issues a World Breastfeeding Week Celebration Challenge, and dissects TSA breastfeeding policy.
Texas wants to pay women $500 to place babies for adoption rather than choosing abortion. Meanwhile, Surrogate Mothers, Inc. provides estimates of the average cost of having a surrogate mother (equivalent to what these TX women would be) ranging from $15,000-$50,000, depending on the method of fertiization. The Center for Surrogate Parenting website Experienced surrogate mothers will receive $23,000 – $30,000 as their compensation.” $500 is about 2% of that $23K figure.
The Women’s Bioethics Project blog has an interesting piece on “Bioethics Quilt Project: Black Americans and Medicine.”
The Washington Post ran an article describing a woman’s battle to get a second opinion on a breast imaging find. Kevin, MD points how how her efforts didn’t really lead to better care and incurred unnecessary costs. I can see both points – the woman didn’t really get the information or explanation she needed, but her efforts didn’t ultimately improve her outcome.
(Hat tips to Feministing, the Kaiser Network, the Lactivist, et al)
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As Sean Braisted is reporting from the hill, and this vote tally page seems to confirm, HB1580 has been voted down by the Health and Human Resources Committee. The bill, covered in this previous post, would have taken authority to require vaccines away from the Commissioner of Health and given it to the General Assembly when the disease is sexually transmitted. Lawmakers made a grab for this authority in reaction to the new HPV vaccine.
The Christian Conservatives oppose this because they want to have cervical cancer as a threat to hang over their daughters heads so that they don’t have sex; the state is looking out for the best interest of the girls whose parents are over-confident in their ability to control their daughter’s sex life.I wonder if these same Republicans who are questioning this vaccine, would have put the same grilling towards the polio vaccine? Debra Maggart is comparing the HPV Vaccine to Ritalin…seriously, what is with the Republican aversion to science?
Although much attention has been paid to efforts to make HPV vaccination mandatory, very little has been paid to attempts of this type to circumvent legitimate public health professionals for the sake of the agenda of those who would prefer to deny access to information and healthcare when it comes to adolescents and sex.
The condom amulet to the left was made for me by the blogger at a little red hen, knitting activist and fellow Oberlin alum Naomi Bloom, complete with NYC Condoms for my collection. Visit the Safe Sex section of her blog for more about her condom amulet and condom distribution work – Naomi is especially passionate about HIV/AIDS prevention work in women over 50, and is generally a kick-ass, impressive, and generous woman. Go visit her site.
Naomi – I apologize for the quality of the photo – I had to take it on my cell because the regular digital camera is on the fritz. Thanks so much.
Everybody else – The photo doesn’t do it justice, but the amulet is styled in Oberlin colors with a knitted loop to make it wearable around the neck.
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I’ll be guest-blogging at at NashvilleIsTalking, run by local ABC affiliate WKRN, this weekend. Come check it out.
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