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wellesleyunderground:

French Students Protest Niqab/Burka Ban in style. Brilliant

‎Dear America, when you tell gay Americans that they can’t serve their country openly or marry the person that they love, you’re telling that to kids too. So don’t be fucking SHOCKED and wonder where all these bullies are coming from that are torturing young kids and driving them to kill themselves because they’re different. They learned it from watching you.

—Sarah Silverman (via e-pic)

(via wellesleyunderground)

Breech Water Birth at Home.

(contains images of naked ladies and normal physiological processes!)

Wow. Amen TIME Magazine!

The United States is already the butt of jokes in the international public health community. We spend more on health care than any other high-income nation, while simultaneously serving the lowest percentage of pregnant women, as several of our key health indicators continue to decline each year. According to Eugene Declercq of the Boston University School of Public Health, the U.S. now has the highest number of maternal deaths relative to all other high-income nations, and we also rank second worst for perinatal deaths.

Retro Sexism (n.): Modern attitudes and behaviors that mimic or glorify sexist aspects of the past, often in an ironic way. 

(Thanks Bitch Magazine)

“Our study demonstrates that neonates born by intended elective repeat cesarean delivery, with or without labor, have increased rates of admission to the NICU…as well as increased rates of respiratory morbidity as compared with the intended VBAC group.”