Rights of the Silent majority – Danielle Deaver
All across the world we as human beings are fighting for the rights of the “silent majority”. Women tend to outnumber us men, and rather than make grandiose comments about how useful/useless the other...
View ArticleA Taste of Things to Come – The Rise of the Back-Street Abortionist
“The assault on Planned Parenthood is unjustified. It is penny-wise and pound foolish. The law strictly and clearly prohibits the use of federal funds for abortion services. The Republicans’...
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Hypothetical Games
A friend and me once read a book by Yann Martell called Beatrice and Virgil. We both looked forward to it since Yann stated that his influences were Art Spiegel’s Maus which is one of my favourite...
View ArticleToddsplainin
Trigger Warning – Content that follows the jump contains a discussion of Rape and indeed Todd Akin’s comments… I don’t think I need to repeat what everyone else thinks about Todd Akin’s “Legitimate...
View ArticleRights of the Silent Majority – Femme? Fatal!
It’s all in the punctuation after all. This is the first FTB post on the Silent Majority theme. I try and group posts under various themes, so that people roughly know whats in the post. I quickly...
View ArticleFaith and Begorrah
Well faith certainly. As of now most of us have heard about the death of Savita Halapannavar who was denied life saving medical care. For those who haven’t? Savita required an abortion. Not because she...
View ArticleThou Shalt Not Tell Half Truths
I am not a part of the Con brigade here (The Conference Brigade… Not the FTB version of Hustle) so I rarely get to show people one of the major issues in pseudoscientific reporting. One of the major...
View ArticlePray For No Babies, But Condoms Work Better
One of the earliest articles I wrote about was the nature of abortion in the Philippines and in particular what it would mean for an America entranced by the usage of abstinence only education and...
View ArticleReducing Abortion
Richard M. Doerflinger’s article on Washington Post has me intrigued. How do you reduce abortion? From a medical standpoint? Abortion can be a medical or a surgical procedure, each with specific risks....
View ArticleColonoscopies and Abortions
Guess which party Senator Donna Campbell belongs to? Hint? She is in Texas. Well she is in favour of Senate Bill 537 which would force all State Abortion Clinics to comply with regulations involving...
View ArticleStrawmanning the Abortion Argument
According to Marc Thiessen, our stance on Todd Aiken was pretty justified if only if we treat the statement by a Planned Parenthood official the same way. That during a hearing of a Florida Bill to...
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A Taste of Things to Come – Rise of the Backstreet Abortionist
American women have lost a great deal of freedom in the past few weeks. All across the USA various states are planning to either reduce funding to bodies such as Planned Parenthood or to try and make...
View ArticleUnreported World – Philippines
This one is an old show. After a political battle beyond compare the Philippines finally legalised contraception. But it is kind of chilling to watch what a society with abstinence only education and...
View ArticleStar Parker Doesn’t Understand Abortion
Big News there? A right wing conservative doesn’t understand medicine? In other news, water is wet and it’s hot in India. In a poll done by Gallup earlier this year, the biggest complaint lodged...
View ArticleIt’s Not Empowerment, It’s Quackery
Prior to the Obstetric/Gynaecological adoption of abortion, it was one of the most riskiest procedures out there. Abortions historically have had some of the worst mortality rates and were generally a...
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The Corkscrew – An Idiot’s Guide to Safe Sex
Warning!This is an article about sex. The kind you learn on the discovery channel. The goal of this is to not just educate but also amuse because sex isn’t just serious. If you cannot laugh about sex...
View ArticleAbortion Myths Debunked
Christian Post’s pro-life brigade were out in force over the week. The problem with such reporting is that it’s an outright lie. And the best lies told are the ones where the teller believes in the...
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A Response To A Pro-Life Atheist and The Friendly Atheist
I am a fan of Hemant Mehta, as one of the few asian atheists online, reading his work got me writing my own stuff. However I disagree with his guest blogger, Kristine Kruszelnicki who is the president...
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