Jan. 25th, 2010

And assemblage of links that've piled up in my inbox over the past week. I'm home, and cheerful but exhausted. Catching up on email now.

On 3D viewing not working for a substantial percentage of people -- several members of my family can't view them without insta-migraines. They don't mention it in the article, but I know there are others out there with the same problem, who are getting increasingly frustrated with the prevalence of 3D movies.

A good dissection of the "childhood obesity epidemic"

Skeptico on fraudulent "bomb detectors" being sold and used in Iraq

CBS is mighty selective in what counts under its "no advocacy ads" policy for Superbowl programming

More on the bullshit persecution against Tiller and his patients when he was alive (from the Kansas AG, no less)

Meta-analysis fails to find correlation between increased intake of saturated fats and cardiovascular disease

ethan_greer found a cool little app that'll turn your LJ into a book format

About legal protections, and lack thereof, at work (jajy1979, they go into MMPI testing, too)

Pseudo-science and Pseudo-sympathy in the Abortion and Breast Cancer Debate

Will Women's Medical Records End Up In the Hands of George Tiller's Killer? and A general roundup on the Roeder case

And I haven't checked it out yet, but apparently there's a geek dating site: http://www.gk2gk.com/ (actually, I know there are several others out there, too, but I hadn't seen this one before)

Simple cervical cancer test could save 100,000 women annually in rural and developing countries
Since I'm so belated, I'm going to start with some links to other Blog for Choice entries worth reading:

Posts from Others:
So, no, I don’t trust women to always make the right choice or the best choice. And one consequence of that is that I sure as hell don’t trust any other woman (or man) to make the best decision for me about my body.

Via Broadsheet, we find that Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health have revealed never-seen-before video clips of the late Dr. George Tiller explaining why he is an abortion provider. On the 37th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade and the first day of opening statements on the murder trial of Dr. Tiller's assassination, we wanted to share.

My relationship to abortion has changed since Dr. Tiller's assassination. And so has my relationship to Dr. Tiller's words, "Trust Women," the theme of this year's Blog for Choice Day.

Posts from Me:
On of my own posts from right after Dr. Tiller's assassination, with numerous links and the dangers of taking a "lone wolf" view of clinic terrorism and yet more related links and articles

My "reproductive rights" tagged entries -- many of these, especially recently, have to do with abortion access and rights.


I'm still struggling over exactly what I want to write. So much about so many elements of this issue gets me riled, and it's hard to focus. Mostly, though, I've been thinking about issues of bodily integrity as they apply to abortion and to pregnancy.

On court-ordered interventions and how "fetal personhood" affects pregnant women's right

This isn't just theoretical stuff. This is affecting women now. If the laws continuing moving in this direction, it can only lead to women having less autonomy about decisions in childbearing, as well as abortion.

The Angela Carder case is a "worst-case scenario" of what this looks like

And my recent post with links to several other chilling cases

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