Elisabeth Garber-Paul is a recent graduate from The New School's Eugene Lang College, where she was the Editor in Chief of the New School Free Press. She now interns at The Nation magazine in New York, and has been published in OMMA, Media, and The Nation.
Don’t like condoms? Cringe at the thought of exposing your body to a daily hormonal treatment? According to recent tests, there may be a safe, all-natural method to avoid conception with your partner.
Iraq is a disaster and every day more details surface to show us just how completely we, as a country, destroyed millions of lives.
A dozen years and more than a billion dollars later, the federal government is still sinking funds into abstinence-only education, despite multiple studies from across the nation that prove it simply doesn’t work.
Now, for the umpteenth round of "keep your laws off my body."
Sure, it’s safer to implant the embryos one by one, but that quickly drives up the cost. However, implanting multiple embryos can lead to risky pregnancies—including "infant mortality, low birth rates, long-term disabilities and thousands of dollars’ worth of medical care," says the Times.
Conservative states are finally realizing that teenagers have sex—even
if you tell them not to—and taking that into account in legislation addressing education.
Last Tuesday a South Carolina House panel approved a law that would require women to submit to an ultrasound and wait 24 hours before receiving an abortion. What’s next? A state-mandated cup of tea with my mother before I can buy condoms?
Sick of birth control’s side-effects? Had enough with the bloating, lack of sexual appetite and risk of blood clot? Now there’s birth control for men.
