Can you imagine how much greater the scandal would have been if Bill Ayers was actually a Facebook friend of Obama’s? That would have been considered hard proof of a relationship, and a sign of the degree of intimacy and access they granted each other. Of course, they weren’t Facebook…

I was your typical middle school nerd who still giggled at fart jokes and would easily blush if any of my classmates brought up the word “sex.” Although, even then, I knew a multitude of friends and schoolmates were already regularly engaging in sex. In fact, it was not…

There’s a bunch of interesting stories about contraception I came across in my news round-up this morning. The first is the announcement of a new and completely natural birth control pill. Lauren Proper at Empowerher reports on oddly-named Qlaira, “the first “natural” contraceptive pill made from a bioidentical hormone.” It’s…

This Sunday marks the 44th anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court decision that granted married couples the right to use contraception. It has also become an occasion anti-contraceptive operatives have seized in an effort to scare women from using birth control. This weekend marks the second year…

I can think of several scenes from various movies where a teenage boy or overeager man has his first or new sexual encounter; the sex lasts all of two minutes and the boy, or man, climaxes leaving the woman unsatisfied and wondering what just happened. My favorite is in…

In our pain, anger and profound sadness over the murder of Dr. Tiller, pro-choice people risk losing an opportunity to see a better day as a country and a movement. In the wake of our loss, it is tempting to continue to categorize in one fixed way all who…

Today, Will Saletan took a shot at me in his Slate column, Human Nature , lecturing me on common ground in the context of the Tiller murder. Below in my response… Dear Will, First off, very glad to know that common ground is here to stay, the proof of…

In college, my best friend was the president of the local chapter’s National Organization for Women. She would organize pro-choice rallies and demonstrate for women’s rights. I remember sitting down with her and having a conversation about kids; at the time, in our early 20s, we both swore up…

We usually associate risky sexual behavior with characteristics like inconsistent or nonexistent use of condoms and other contraceptives or having multiple sexual partners. However, a new study out of the University of Florida has discovered that there is one more factor that could possible outweigh these characteristics: the character…

For those who would like to think today’s murder in church of Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider, is an isolated incident, here’s the horrifying news: You are wrong. The pattern is clear and frightening. In March 1993, three months into the administration of our first pro-choice president, Bill…