Posts Tagged ‘Sexual Health and Rights’
Last week, the Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a decision that a woman from Kansas could be sent to jail if she refused to testify against the man she accused of sexual assault. The 24-year-old woman initially filed charges in August 2012 against a 63-year-old Nebraska man for sexually assaulting her when she was 7 years old. Last year,…
Posted: May 17th, 2012
Categories:
Sex and Politics
Tags:
A Long Walk Home,
gender,
Law,
police and law enforcement,
Race,
Race and Sexuality,
racial justice,
Rape,
reproductive justice,
sex and sexuality,
sexual assaults,
Sexual Health and Rights
Did you get the memos? Stop. Don’t look. Don’t be aroused. And don’t have sex. Not until you are sure you’re going to marry that person. Provided that you are legally allowed to marry that person. That one person and no other persons. And let’s not miss the ridiculous idea that sexual freedom is bad…
Posted: April 6th, 2012
Categories:
Sex In The Public Square
Tags:
CNN,
E.L. James,
erotica,
Fifty Shades of Grey,
Frank Bruni,
Girls,
Joe Scarborough,
marriage,
Maureen Dowd,
Mika Brzezinski,
Morning Joe,
pornography,
Sexual Health and Rights,
sexual speech and expression,
William Bennet
This week the Georgia State Legislature debated a bill in the House that would make it necessary for some women to carry stillborn or dying fetuses until they “naturally” go into labor. In arguing for this bill Representative Terry England described his empathy forpregnant cows and pigs in the same situation. I have a question for…
I’ve got some great news to share with you! As you know, Woodhull joined our allies in testifying in Florida in favor of House Bill 367, prohibiting the use of restraints (shackles) on incarcerated women in labor, delivery and recovery. (Our testimony is here.) We’ve been working on this for two years and today –…
Posted: March 8th, 2012
Categories:
Sex and Politics
Tags:
civil rights,
Florida,
Human Rights,
incarceration,
prisoner rights,
reproductive rights,
Sexual Health and Rights,
Shackling,
Testimony,
Women