Some good stuff from recent days, in no particular order. If you follow my FriendFeed or StumbleUpon profiles, you may have seen some of these already, but several things will be new. And as usual, there’s a ton of good stuff over at Our Bodies Our Blog. Renee of Womanist Musings at Global Com...

The girls gather in small groups outside Alexandria's T.C. Williams High School most mornings, standing with their babies on their hips, talking and giggling like sorority sisters. Sometimes their mothers drop the kids (and their kids) off with a carefree smile and a wave. As I watch the girls carry...

Many of you who are interested in protecting reproductive rights may be breathing a sigh of relief with the election of Barack Obama and the defeat of many ballot initiatives such as the abortion ban in South Dakota. I’m there with you, but I have a creeping concern. In Tennessee, not only did...

Maybe my daughter will believe me now....An article appearing in the July 10 issue of the Journal of Pediatrics reports on more than 4,400 girls and young women, aged 14 to 21, who participated in the Growing Up Today study, an offshoot of the venerable Nurses Health Study II. A weight gain of 4 lb ...

Last week, TIME magazine reported on an alleged “pregnancy pact” made by teens at Gloucester High School, with school principal Joseph Sullivan claiming that “some girls seemed more upset when they weren’t pregnant than when they were” and indicating “early half t...

Last night’s episode of NOW on PBS focused on child prostitution in Atlanta, GA. According to an estimate provided in the introduction, “law enforcement sources say that across America, tens of thousands of children are involved in prostitution.” Let’s try that again, with em...

Newsweek has a current piece asking why Gardasil vaccination rates are less than might have been anticipated. Don’t run off to read the story just yet, though, for two reasons: 1) there’s nothing new in this piece, which reminds us that the shots are expensive, people are afraid it will ...