War on Women Continues – Is Menstruation Going to be Monitored Before Absurdity Ends?

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Breast Cancer Survivor Wants Protection from Work-Related Carcinogens

Breast cancer survivor Sandy Knight wants workers to press for more safety measures in factories. (Courtesy of Brandon Knight)  Brophy and Keith, who have worked in occupational and environmental health for 30 years in the Windsor, Ont., area, have combined provincial labour inspectors' reports with the observations of female workers employed in the plastics industry

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Breast cancer survivor Sandy Knight wants workers to press for more safety measures in factories. (Courtesy of Brandon Knight)

A breast cancer survivor who was exposed to a toxic mix of cancer-causing chemicals on the job at a plastic factory 20 years ago is warning that the health of workers still isn’t protected enough.

Sandy Knight, a former health and safety chairperson at a plastics factory in Windsor, Ont., now speaks to men and women about potentially dangerous substances in the workplace.

The Right to Abortion Equals the Right to Kill Infants?

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Both the fetus and the new-born infant are only potential persons without any interests. Therefore the interests of the persons involved with them are paramount until some indefinite time after birth. To emphasise the continuity between the two acts, they term it “after-birth abortion” rather than infanticide.

Birth Control is Pricey – even for those who can afford it

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Ninety-nine percent of women have used contraception, but that hasn’t stopped far-right critics of the rule from trying to turn birth control into a controversy, one that has intensified in the past week. No one has spun the issue better than Georgia Representative Tom Price, who claimed that no woman has ever been denied access to birth control because she could not afford it. “Bring me one woman who has been left behind. Bring me one. There’s not one,” Price told ThinkProgress when it asked how low-income women could access contraception if it were not insured

Women Glaringly Absent in Gov’t Discussion on Birth Control – Again

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In the January 1970 Senate testimony on the safety and effectiveness of the first birth control pills – women were not only not allowed to testify – but they were forced to sit in the Senate balcony….far removed from the discussion.  40 years later and women are still ‘not allowed’ to participate in testimony and Continue Reading …

Do we need a morality pill?

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“If continuing brain research does in fact show biochemical differences between the brains of those who help others and the brains of those who do not, could this lead to a “morality pill” — a drug that makes us more likely to help? Given the many other studies linking biochemical conditions to mood and behavior, and the proliferation of drugs to modify them that have followed, the idea is not far-fetched. If so, would people choose to take it?

The pill, reduced period pain and the ongoing delusion

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Society for Menstrual Cycle Research re:Cycling January 20th, 2012 by Laura Wershler Is there a woman over the age of 18 anywhere who doesn’t know that taking the birth control pill can make her periods lighter and less painful? Most women know this, but not many know why. The news stories swirling around a new study Continue Reading …

Baby Dies After 9 Vaccines in One Day

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Vac Truth By Christina England | January 19th, 2012      The end of last year was masked with sadness for Belgium parents Raphaël Sirjacobs & Béatrice Dupont, as their nine week old daughter Stacy Sirjacobs lost her fight for life. Stacy died just one week after her first vaccinations and left her twin sister Continue Reading …

Special Message About SOPA from Holy Hormones Journal

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SOPA and PIPA legislation infringes free expression and are unacceptable in a world that values an open, secure, and free Internet. SOPA and PIPA are badly drafted legislation that won’t be effective at their stated goal (to stop copyright infringement), and will cause serious damage to the free and open Internet. More importantly, SOPA and PIPA build a framework for future restrictions and suppression…think China, Venezuela, and Iran.

Rosa Parks

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Iconic Woman and The Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement As we celebrate Martin Luther King Day I think it is only right that we take a moment to honor the Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement, Ms. Rosa Parks, born Rosa Louise McCauley, on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Rosa Parks’ childhood Continue Reading …