Category Archives: Musings

How can you protect healthcare and expand basic coverage for millions of women? Well, first off, if you live in the US you’re not in the 99%. Comparatively maybe you’re in the 99% within the US, but simply living here … Continue reading →

Having a baby? Perhaps by C-section? Have 10K sitting around for the hospital bill? Whether you do or don’t, the answer to whether you’d like to pay the 10k yourself is probably, ‘no’. The Affordable Care Act, which became law … Continue reading →

the FDA guide at http://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForConsumers/ByAudience/ForWomen/FreePublications/UCM207070.pdf includes information about how to use it, how to get it, the possibility of getting pregnant while using it, potential risks and whether it protects the user from sexually transmitted infections.

A proposal to include birth control in most health insurance plans is catching the country by storm, or rather, most conservative groups by storm, in a hotly contested debate on the subject. The Washington Post ran the story here. THe … Continue reading →

Now what? I think there’s going to have to be some form of adjustment to the way pro-choice ad pro-life campaigners talk to one another because right now it’s too dualistic, too black and white, too one sized fits all….. … Continue reading →