Dear The Right, this is what happens when you make abortion inaccessible.

(And aside from fears of damaging side effects taking place without the oversight of medical personnel, I don’t think it’s a half-bad option.) For Privacy’s Sake, Taking Risks to End Pregnancy By JENNIFER 8. LEE and CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times, January 5, 2009 Amalia Dominguez was 18 and desperate and knew exactly what [...]

Ladies: take a drug for your depression, and then get some Viagra

Pfizer has just figured out how to make more money off Viagra: Give it to women that suffer a reduced sexual appetite due to consumption of antidepressants. The company has completed a small-scale study that would require corroboration with a much larger sample. But the small study indicates that among women that took antidepressants for [...]

“Final period”

Several days ago, the New York Times published an op-ed about a new form of birth control marketed by Wyeth called Lybrel with the above title. The fourth paragraph is a sarcastic listing of all the arguments for a pill that will allow women to never menstruate: After all, periods and their mood swings are [...]