Category Archives: Feminism

Formula: the new big mac?

By The Midwife | Published: July 25, 2006

So, I wouldn’t exactly say that I’m back, but I’m certainly around again, which is a start (although woefully behind on all the latest news). Moving is a drag, and this move has been a very long, drawn out process. Would you believe that most of our stuff is still in boxes??? We’ve spackled and […]

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Contra-contraception

By The Midwife | Published: May 11, 2006

Better late than never: check out this article from the New York Times magazine last weekend, which featured a long, in-depth look at the growing anti-contraception movement in America. A few highlights includes a detailed description of the entire Plan B over-the-counter approval-process debacle which happened last year, culminating in the resignation of Susan Woods, […]

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Speak out against rape today

By The Midwife | Published: April 21, 2006

Via Feministing, there’s a rally being held today by the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault at Union Square, which started at noon today. While this notice is a bit late, there’s a 24-hour vigil and “Say-So” (Sexual Assault Yearly Speak Out) with continuous reading of survivor’s stories that will be going on all […]

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Further thoughts on FGM

By The Midwife | Published: April 19, 2006

The pendulum swings in one direction, and then it swings back again. Last night I was awash with guilt and worried that I hadn’t done the right thing. Today, as I continue to process and sift through my thoughts on this subject, I am beginning to change my mind on some of it. The circumcision […]

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Circumcision or mutilation?

By The Midwife | Published: April 18, 2006

The exam today began like any other routine postpartum exam: we talked about her birth, cooed over her baby, was she having any problems? Breastfeeding was going well? Bleeding had stopped? Had she started having sex again? What was she planning on using for birth control? Then, after all the listening and talking and note […]

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The anti-birth control/anti-abortion band wagon

By The Midwife | Published: March 23, 2006

Seems like ever since the FDA announced that two more women have died after taking RU-486, one of the drugs used during a medical abortion, the abortion debate has reached a new pitch as pro-lifers have eagerly added this news to their arsenal and pro-choicers have feverishly girded themselves for pitched battle. Naturally, this has […]

Also posted in Choice, Contraception, Politics | 1 Comment

The difference between a journal and a blog

By The Midwife | Published: March 20, 2006

I’ve haven’t been writing much lately because the school/work/school/work vortex has been unusually intense for the past two weeks. I’ve been having a hard time staying afloat, and on days when it seems really difficult to take care of basics, like feeding myself and getting enough sleep, blogging unfortunately gets relegated to the very bottom […]

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The morality of forced motherhood?

By The Midwife | Published: February 26, 2006

Wow, just read a brutally blunt article over at the Tennessee Guerilla Women website that really lays into the morality of forcing women to have unwanted babies in a society that is anti-family, anti-health and anti-life (and no, not life as in pro-life, but anti-living well and healthy, on every level: physical, emotional, spiritual etc.). […]

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South Dakota set to ban abortions

By The Midwife | Published: February 23, 2006

This didn’t take long at all.

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The Keeper

By The Midwife | Published: February 9, 2006

We’ve been talking so much about menstruation lately that it seems only natural that the subject of alternative menstrual gear would come up at some point. In fact, just last week we were talking about it after class one day, and I ended up bringing my Keeper to school with me to show to a […]

Also posted in Menstruation, New Products, The Soapbox, Women's Health | 8 Comments