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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Social Reproduction and Women's Oppression
IntroductionTonight’s Anti-Capitalist Meetup is the second part of my talk in Amsterdam and also the second part of the piece on the exploitation of labour in class societies, concentrating on...
View ArticleScientists have successfully grown sperm in a lab and created healthy offspring
A Chinese research team took a stem cell, turned it into sperm and fertilized an egg to produce healthy mice.Making sperm in the testes is one of the longest and most complicated processes in the body...
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The Daily Bucket - Friendly Seal's pup gets a fishing lesson!
You may remember my excitement last month when I saw my old friend and neighbor, the Friendly Seal, appear with her pup on a foggy morning on July 16. It was confirmation Friendly Seal is a female and...
View ArticleDad's turn to do the family planning
What keeps America so quiet about vasectomy? Why aren’t we seeing and hearing the compelling case for men to man up in a final act of family planning? These are no idle questions: of the many birth...
View ArticleThe Doomsday Scenario for Reproductive Rights if Trump is Elected
It's easy to complain on social media that Clinton isn't liberal enough (or is too liberal), that she can't be trusted, that she should have managed her emails differently. When it's time to cast a...
View ArticleIs an IUD Women's Only Hope for Surviving a Trump Presidency?
Women are now resorting to intrauterine devices (IUDs) to protect themselves during a Trump presidency. The stunning results have left women, people of color, the disabled, transgendered folks, and...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket - winter turkeys
It’s time for an update on the wild turkeys who live in my neighborhood!Early last summer I witnessed a turkey mating and wrote up a Bucket about it, wondering, among other things, if this small group...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket - Decorah eagle season begins!
Wildlife cams are addicting for some of us. Being able to get a peek into the life of wild creatures without disturbing them teaches us a great deal about them, and promotes awareness and respect for...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket - otters denning soon
Early March, 2017 Pacific NorthwestA lone otter at this time of year might be a female scouting out a den for starting this year’s family. I haven’t seen one yet this year doing that.Meanwhile...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket - eagle nest discovery!
Salish Sea, Pacific NorthwestJune 2017In my last Bucket I shared some unexpected birds I’ve been seeing lately. All those were pretty cool nature encounters, practically stumbling over gorgeous birds...
View ArticleAnticapitalist Meetup: Letting It All Hang Out in The Gender Wars
This blog today is going to be relatively long (I will try to identify sections so you can skip to the parts you like), disorganized (it is a huge controversial subject that in hindsight I have only...
View ArticleJudge Halts Indiana's Parental Notification Abortion Law
A federal judge Wednesday temporarily halted a portion of Indiana’s restrictive new abortion law. The law would have required judges who authorize abortions in minors to notify the parents of the minor...
View ArticleKinks, Locks & Twists: Environmental and Reproductive Justice Conference
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The Daily Bucket - Friendly Seal's new pup?
Salish Sea, Pacific NorthwestSeptember 2017I missed seal-pupping season this summer due to a back injury. From mid-June until well into August I was unable to walk or bicycle down to my favorite beach,...
View ArticleWe could do it tomorrow
Richard Paulson is the president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. He is an obstetrician-gynecologist in Los Angeles. Speaking at the ASRM annual conference in San Antonio, Paulson...
View ArticleStudy: Military Abortion Policy Harms Female Soldiers
Restrictive military abortion policies harm female soldiers’ health, emotional well-being, career prospects, and finances, concludes a study published last week in Perspectives on Sexual and...
View ArticleState Department gets sued after granting citizenship to one twin while...
Strict enforcement of outdated and incomplete immigration policies have left a sixteen-month-old baby with an expired tourist visa, while his twin brother holds a U.S. passport. This week, their...
View ArticleDawn Chorus: Birdies go a'Courting
Spring is in the air, and it’s that time — the birds and the bees. You may be seeing some of your local birdy neighbors getting a little frisky these days …. I sure have. Reproduction is much too huge...
View ArticleForced Sterilizations of Indigenous Women - Genocide - "Over Past 25 Years"...
xYouTube Video(This is an edited repost, which begins after the break)xI was hesitant to discuss this because it happened to me. I was sterilized in the U.S. through Indian Health when I was 21....
View ArticleFirst Gene Edited Babies resistant to HIV born in China
Today a Chinese IVF doctor in Shenzhen announced that twin girls whose genomes he had altered using CRISPR technology to make them resistant to HIV were born. This news comes as a complete surprise to...
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