Category Archives: SuppressionThe Huffington Post
Frank Schaeffer
New York Times best-selling author
Posted: July 26, 2010 06:52 PM
When God decided to make the first woman and donated her to the first man as a housewarming (or should I say garden-warming) present, God must have carelessly hurried her plumbing design. Soon after creation women’s botched plumbing began to weigh heavily on His Mind.
For those who can’t afford branded sanitary pads, NGO Goonj has a way out. Collecting used clothes from donors, it employs over 300 women to churn out a set of five re-usable cloth napkins for Rs 3 each
Pune Mirror
India
By Vishakha Sharma
Posted On Monday, July 12, 2010 at 11:31:36 PM
In a country which sees lakhs of people living below the poverty line, menstruation is a harbinger of shame for women who try to make ends meet.
Where people cannot afford two square meals, buying sanitary napkins from the market is out of the question. So does this mean that such women will have to be relegated to dark corners of their shanties during those difficult days?
Care2
July 10, 2010
You would think, if given evidence about thousands of potential rapists, who are quite possibly committing repeat offenses, that police departments across the country would see rape kits for what they are – an opportunity to stop horrifying crimes.
Irish Times
July 6, 2010
“FGM is unusual in Ireland, so people will be shocked and you have to explain over and over. That’s what makes people say, ‘No, I don’t want to go [to the doctor]‘” says Ifrah Ahmed of the End FGM European campaign led by Amnesty International.
Greater awareness among healthcare workers in Ireland is needed to help women who have undergone ‘female circumcision’, writes CATHERINE REILLY
AlterNet
By Daniela Perdomo
When most of us think of female genital mutilation, we probably think of faraway places. Well, peel off those blinders. In 1997, our very own Department of Health and Human Services estimated that 168,000 girls and women living in the United States had been or were at risk of being subjected to some form of the abhorrent practice known as female genital mutilation (FGM).
The Huffington Post
May 21, 2010
By Michele Swenson
Assuming responsibility for personal and institutional sins has not been a strong suit of the Church, fallen evangelicals, or corporate plunderers. It’s easier to blame a media campaign against the Church, or in Rep. Mark Souder’s case, a “poisonous” Washington environment seeking to twist “personal failing … for political gain.”
The political right has labored mightily for over three decades to link the term “entitlement” to social programs such as nutrition, health and child support — useful distractions from enormous entitlements bestowed on corporate power brokers who have corroded common culture and brought us to the economic brink.
Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
re: Cycling
Laura Eldridge’s new book In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women (Seven Stories Press, 2010) isn’t kidding with that subtitle. The last time I remember reading so much detail about contraceptive options was poring over Our Bodies, Ourselves when I was in my 20s.
Eldridge reviews every method of birth control known to modern woman–and, importantly, some that aren’t widely known. She even briefly reviews the history of contraception in 19th and 20th centuries, reminding us that birth control is not a new invention.
Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
re: Cycles
MenstruationResearch.org – Today, during an email exchange among the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research blogging team, research-advocacy experts on the menstrual cycle spoke out in response to the unbridled passion for the pill expressed by members of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists at their [...]
CARE 2.com
posted by: Ximena Ramirez
Promiscuous women cause earthquakes. Suntanned women deserve jail time.
You’d think I was making this stuff up, but sadly I’m not.
In an effort to enforce the highly conservative values of Iranian law – like women being covered from head to toe – religious and now police officials are cracking down on women’s behavior.
Thaindian News
April 25th, 2010 – 2:47 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, April 25 (IANS) Less than a week after a religious leader in Iran said earthquakes were caused by women who were promiscuous and wore revealing clothes, a school in Nepal’s west has expelled 29 girls for “angering the gods” as they had begun to menstruate, a report said.
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