Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross

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In all my years on planet earth, I have never seen such a disgusting attack on a woman's right to choose how she wants to have her family and enjoy her sex life. It's time for them to stop.

Who knew that the Pill could effect our sexual preferences?  A new study has found that hormones in the oral contraceptive suppress a woman's interest in
masculine men making boyish men much more attractive.  Here's how it breaks down: as a woman, you're attracted to nice, boyish men BUT when you're ovulating there's a distinct shift and you find yourself more attracted to masculine men who are more assertive.  However, when you're on the pill you never ovulate; hence, you find Johnny Depp much more attractive than Clive Owen.

Another wrinkle to this study has to do with male sexual preferences. 

I remember sitting with Betty in a NARAL board meeting preparing for the final f*cking from the Bush admin and fantasizing about Obama taking office and reversing all their attempts to restrict a woman's right to choose as well as our access to contraception.  It's all happening!

The outgoing Bush administration this week will finalize a regulation establishing a "right of conscience" allowing medical staff to refuse to participate in any practice they object to on moral grounds, including abortion but possibly birth control and other health care as well.

In transition offices across town, officials in the incoming Obama administration have begun considering how and when to undo it.

If you want to lower the number of abortions, then you need to make contraception affordable and accessible. Someone in England gets it!

Pilot schemes to enable pharmacists to give women the Pill without the need for a GP prescription will go ahead next year.  Two London primary care trusts (PCTs) have received cash to act as pilot sites to see if the scheme is suitable for rolling out across England.

Women will be able to obtain the oral contraceptive after an interview with a qualified pharmacist.  If the pilots are successful, the Pill could be put on the same footing as the morning-after pill, which is already available at pharmacies without direct authorisation from a doctor.

I was waiting for this...for Hillary Clinton to take off the gloves and go for one more round. What better way to go back to public life than with a public denouncement of the Bush Administration's lame attempt to define contraception as abortion:

"The Bush
Administration is up to its old tricks again, quietly putting ideology before
science and women's health. The U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services is poised to put in place new barriers to accessing common forms of
contraception like birth control pills, emergency contraception and IUDs by
labeling them "abortion."

The New York Times reports that the Bush Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services is drafting a rule that would place new restrictions on domestic family planning programs.

While current law allows health care providers and professionals to refuse to provide abortions based on their religious beliefs, this provision would threaten the funding of organizations and health facilities if they do not hire people who would refuse to provide birth control and defines abortion so broadly that it would include many types of birth control, including oral contraception.