Sing it, sistah!

Quoted: The new president of the National Organization for Women says the Roman Polanski and David Letterman controversies are examples of why women are still treated like second-class citizens.

Pass on to your female friends...

Quoted: Critics say Yaz and Yasmin, the top-selling birth control line in the U.S., pose greater health risks to women.

Hm, it sounds to me like there are some problematic assumptions being made in this study...

Quoted: The birth control pill may have done more than just help liberate women — it may also have changed “the laws of attraction” between the sexes, according to a new study.

Yep...

Quoted: U.S. states whose residents have more conservative religious beliefs on average tend to have higher rates of teenagers giving birth, a new study suggests.

My graduate school studies were largely based around Ela Bhatt's work! Great profile...

Quoted: Ela Bhatt, whose Self-Employed Women’s Association offers a safety net to poor working women, is a Gandhian pragmatist for the New India.

Here's the real story on Katie Couric's interview with Cindy McCain. She DOES understand Roe v. Wade, and the official statement is that like Laura Bush, Mrs. McCain does not favor overturning Roe v. Wade, which guarantees the legal right to an abortion.

Quoted: Yesterday during an interview with CBS’s Katie Couric, Cindy McCain said that she does not oppose a woman’s right to an abortion in the case of rape or incest — a position that differs from the Arizona senator’s running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK).

Slate takes a look at the Alaska Parental Consent Act, put into effect by Sarah Palin.

Quoted: Last week, Democrats approved the first black major-party nominee for president. This week, Republicans countered with their first female nominee for VP. From race to sex to religion, the circle of opportunity is expanding.

Emily Yoffee is badass - great piece!

Quoted: A Slate colleague offered this challenge for my next Human Guinea Pig: to see if I could get in shape for the summer. Usually in Human Guinea Pig, I do outlandish things—like make my singing debut or become a paparazzo. But maybe trying to firm up, the kind of firm in which my skin becomes like human spandex, was the most outlandish experiment of all.

I never realized HPV could cause cancer in men. But I think vaccinating men for HPV will be treated a lot like birth control by legislators - in other words, it's a "woman problem."

Quoted: The virus that causes cervical cancer also leads to throat cancer in males. Now researchers are looking into whether the vaccine should be given to boys, both to prevent the spread of HPV, and to prevent the rarer, but no less deadly, cancers that can occur in men from the virus.