The Senate vote to defund Planned Parenthood (PP) was defeated on Monday. The vote followed weeks of controversy surrounding PP’s process of fetal tissue donation – which anti-abortion extremists call “selling aborted baby parts.” A crusade to defund PP gained traction in 2011, when Tea Party politicians took office, but as the 2016 Democratic presidential […]
Planned Parenthood (PP) is a favorite target for anti-choice activists. Their latest smear campaign against PP involves a series of undercover videos showing executives discussing the transactions regarding fetal tissue. Comedienne Sarah Silverman defended the use fetal tissue as well as reinforcing the fact that abortion is legal. Abortion is still legal in the great U.S of […]
Soon the reproductive landscape will see a big change with the introduction of the first FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approved male contraceptive since the condom. Vasalgel isn’t really a pill, it’s a non-hormonal drug expected to be available in the United States around 2018-2020. One injection would last for years. Vasalgel, created by Parsemus […]
Nobel Laureat, and strapping, manly biologist Sir Tim Hunt, decided to show the writers, scientists and engineers at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Seoul, just what a masculine specimen he is by berating women. At a luncheon for science journalists hosted by Korean women scientists, he thanked the women journalists “for making lunch,” warned […]
I think it’s great that I can put my money where my mouth is and make money by investing in solar projects. Back in September, I wrote about Mosaic, a forward thinking company based in Oakland, CA that puts people together with solar projects. The idea is to fund projects via crowd sourcing and pay […]