Here’s all the news on our radar for today!
• We warned you about Rick Perry’s call for a second special session on SB5. After about eight hours of testimony last night, the Texas House voted to approve these restrictive abortion regulations.
• NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia confirms that Crisis Pregnancy Centers purposefully uses false medical information to dissuade patients from seeking abortions. [Feminist Wire]
• Speaking of Crisis Pregnancy Centers, student Lucy Vernasco shares her upsetting experience with one, highlighting why access to family planning is crucial. [Feminist Campus]
• A conservative blogger exposes Texas Senator Wendy Davis’s natural hair color and thereby disproves feminism. [Slate]
• Remember when a UNM professor fat-shamed PhD candidates on Twitter and tried to pass it off as a research project? Looks like he’ll keep his job. [Huffington Post]
• Artist Nickolay Lamm recreates Barbie using proportions based on the CDC’s measurements of the average 19-year-old American woman. [My Deals]
Did we miss anything? Let us know what you’re reading in the comments.
On Our Radar: Feminist News Round Up
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during next week's mass hunger strike protesting solitary
Victoria Law replied on
confinement, let's not forget that women are also held in solitary confinement. And, in California, they're being held simply in 22-24 hour isolation because the state over-incarcerates and doesn't have any other place to put its excessive number of prisoners:
http://solitarywatch.com/2013/07/01/women-in-california-prison-isolation...
correction
BrookieB replied on
It was not an NYU professor who fat shamed, it was a UNM (University of New Mexico) prof. Thanks!
Fixed this!
Sarah Mirk replied on
Thanks for the note!
Texas Abortion Restrictions: Correction
MissEdith replied on
Actually, though it's probably going to get through, the abortion restrictions have NOT passed the house yet. They were voted out of committee. There's still a ways to go.
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