While I didn’t get a chance to see the entire Tea Party-sponsored debate among the Republican presidential candidates, I did see clips of a back and forth between Minn. Rep. Michele Bachman and Texas Gov. Rick Perry over the latter’s decision to mandate HPV vaccinations for school-aged girls. Here’s a brief snippet I found on […]
Gawker has a story about the accuser issuing a statement after the rape trail of two NYC police officers, who were acquitted last week of the charges. The statement reads: I know that in a criminal trial a verdict of not guilty does not necessarily mean the defendants were found innocent, but I am devastated […]
I heard this snippet of information yesterday morning while I was pulling away from the Chick-Fil-A with my egg and cheese biscuit and made a note to myself to check up on this when I returned home later that day. Sure enough, the U.K.’s Daily Mail isreporting some outlets have named the 32-year-old woman and even […]
>Women will make up claims of rape and incest just to get abortions. That’s according to Indiana State Representative Eric Turner, a Republican who introduced a bill that would make abortions after 20 weeks illegal. His bill would also prevent insurance companies from covering abortions under the new federal health care law. The Indiana House […]
>The Nation magazine has an excellent piece written by William Jelani Cobb regarding the case of more than a dozen black men and boys being arrested for the rape of an 11-year-old girl. It’s a really interesting piece and should add a new twist in the debate on the fiasco. These few paragraphs of the […]