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Wichita Doctor Takes Up Fight for Abortions
A.G. Sulzberger, New York Times
A strange, and fascinating, article about Dr. Mila Means and her attempt to take up Dr. Tiller’s place as an abortion provider in Wichita, a city at the front lines of the anti-choice wars for decades. Dr. Means, a strange and fascinating character herself, is a Wichita native who started her career as a physician looking for a position at a crisis pregnancy center. Now she has learned to perform early-term abortion procedures and is working to establish a surgical practice, motivated “as much about making money for her struggling practice as about restoring access to a constitutional right.”
War Without Humans: Modern Blood Rites Revisited
Barbara Ehrenreich, Guernica
Responding to the increased importance of robotics in waging contemporary warfare, FP author Barbara Ehrenreich imagines a future of “war without humans” in which war becomes entirely automated.
Unsolicited Advice for Bristol Palin: Call It Rape
Jaclyn Friedman, Good
Friedman urges Bristol Palin to stop referring to what Levi Johnston did to her as “stealing [her] virginity,” and start calling it rape.
Talk the Talk, Walk the Slutwalk
Katha Pollitt, The Nation
Love it or hate it, the Slutwalk phenomenon is now the most popular example of today’s feminist movement. Katha Pollitt explains the true roots of Slutwalk (rather than the mainstream media’s explanation of the movement) and why these marches are transformative while pointing out what is problematic about them as well.
Jos, Feministing
New social networking site Google+ requires its users to list their gender as either male, female, or other, creating discomfort for those who feel they have to settle for the vague label “other”. Facebook has continually resisted listing any options for gender besides female or male, although the website at least makes this information optional when signing up, whereas users are unable to create an account for Google+ without first stating their gender.
