Again with the thinking that women having knowledge is dangerous or scary or just plain bad.

Birth control prices going up on college campuses.

South Carolina wants to force women to look at ultrasounds before having an abortion. Thoughts on that at Aunt B’s and in this previous post. Also, the underlying assumption that these silly women just haven’t *thought* about it is especially offensive.

Ohio Governor to defund abstinence-only sex ed.

The American Medical Women’s Association thinks women 30 and over should also be receiving the HPV vaccine, and has released a statement on cervical cancer prevention.

Anti-abortion folks are targeting urban, African-American women with their campaigns.

The CDC has adopted recommendations on HPV vaccination.

The Lactivist issues a World Breastfeeding Week Celebration Challenge, and dissects TSA breastfeeding policy.

Texas wants to pay women $500 to place babies for adoption rather than choosing abortion. Meanwhile, Surrogate Mothers, Inc. provides estimates of the average cost of having a surrogate mother (equivalent to what these TX women would be) ranging from $15,000-$50,000, depending on the method of fertiization. The Center for Surrogate Parenting website Experienced surrogate mothers will receive $23,000 – $30,000 as their compensation.” $500 is about 2% of that $23K figure.

The Women’s Bioethics Project blog has an interesting piece on “Bioethics Quilt Project: Black Americans and Medicine.”

The Washington Post ran an article describing a woman’s battle to get a second opinion on a breast imaging find. Kevin, MD points how how her efforts didn’t really lead to better care and incurred unnecessary costs. I can see both points – the woman didn’t really get the information or explanation she needed, but her efforts didn’t ultimately improve her outcome.

(Hat tips to Feministing, the Kaiser Network, the Lactivist, et al)

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