“Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they're not worried about the violent nature of video games or movies or books.” PeopleGivingBookMightKidsGamesInformationDiseaseViolentVideoWorriedPregnancyUnwantedUnwanted Pregnancy Author:Ellen Hopkins
“The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism, are especially plagued by [high rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and infant mortality], while the comparatively secular states of the Northeast conform to European standards.” StatesReligionReligiousLevelsUnitedUnited StatesDiseaseHighestStandardsRateAbortionComparisonMortalityPregnancySouthernSecularConformInfantSexuallyHomicideTeen PregnancyInfant MortalitySexually Transmitted Diseases Author:Sam Harris
“The thing about superheroes is that they don't have problems, right? A feminist hooker superhero wouldn't have to worry about assault, or pregnancy, or poverty, or disease, or eating and shelter, or police. In order to make her a superhero, you have to divorce her of the very context that makes her story possible. You have to gloss over the trauma.” StoriesProblemOrderPovertyWorryDiseaseEatingPoliceFeministDivorceTraumaPregnancyShelterAssaultSuperheroGloss Author:Daphne Gottlieb
“Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.” PoliticianDiseaseSexualityPregnancyHomosexualitySexuallyDeliveryAbstinenceStdsSexually Transmitted Diseases Author:Rachel Maddow
“If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.” IfsMenWayYearsEndsMightWould BeSufferingFightingRiskConditionsSubjectsStageDrinkDiseaseTrainAbortionPregnancySpellsCigaretteBellyEmergenciesControversialSexuallyAspirinFaintingSexually Transmitted DiseasesCirrhosis Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.” WayDifferentCoursesDiseasePregnancyCoveredDisabilityTypicalConfined Author:William Rehnquist
“According to the Western model, pregnancy is a disease, menopause is a disease, and even getting pregnant is a disease. Dangerous drugs and devices are given to women, but not to men- just for birth control. I've reached the conclusion that to many doctors BEING A WOMAN IS A DISEASE” MenGivenDangerousBirthDrugDiseaseModelsDoctorsWesternConclusionDevicesPregnancyPregnantBeing A WomanBirth ControlMenopauseDangerous Drugs Author:Barbara Seaman