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Abortion Around Roe

April 14, 2010

Last Tuesday at the Law School, Professor Reva Siegel and famed legal journalist Linda Greenhouse presented on their latest collaboration, a collected history of pre-Roe politics and materials.

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The Dubious Rise of Caesarean Section Rates in the United States

By ANNIE ATURA

April 1, 2010

This past week illuminated yet another instance of the health care system’s unsavory influence on women’s health decisions: on Tuesday, the National Center for Health Statistics released a report detailing the inappropriate increase in Caesarean sections over the past decade, due in no small part to hospital policy.

A Smile Is Not a Smile Is Not a Smile

By PRESCA AHN and ADRIEL SAPORTA

April 2009

Yale Psychology Professor Marianne LaFrance gave a talk on subtle sexual harassment on April 8. Broad Recognition sat in and took notes.

The Pleasures and Perils of “Divacup”

By ALICE BUTTRICK

April 1, 2010

On loveyourvagina.com, the “Moon cup Menstrual Cup”– a British version of the US’s well-known “Divacup”– is encouraging women to share their favorite nicknames for the vagina.

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Why Yale Students Don’t Understand Date Rape

By ADRIEL SAPORTA

December 2009

Many Yale students approach the topic of date rape with a disconcerting blend of hesitancy and cynicism. Neither Yale, nor its students, can be blamed in full for this ambivalence—few issues on American college campuses are as contentious, or as pertinent, as that of date rape.

Tepid Resolutions to Rape: Film Sends Mixed Messages to Freshmen

By CLAIRE GORDON

October 2009

At this fall’s Freshman Orientation, the film Relationships: Untitled replaced the traditional “Sex Signals” program ...

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Choose Life at Yale (CLAY) Makes A Bad Choice

By CHASE OLIVARIUS-MCALLISTER

April 5, 2010

In 2007, the first time Choose Life At Yale (CLAY) applied to be a residence group of the Women’s Center, I was on the Women’s Center’s Board.

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The Nostalgia Shall Be Visited Upon The Freshmen

By BLUEBALLS

October 2009

Around this time of year, BlueBalls gets a little nostalgic. And nostalgia, as always, shall be visited upon the freshmen. Most relationship advice to frosh takes the form of knowing grins about long-distance high school relationships ...