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"The Irish government is finally getting round to drafting a new law on abortion. The law will only cover cases where the mother's life is in danger without an abortion. Even so, the Catholic Church in Ireland is opposing the legislation. How fixated do you have to be to oppose an abortion where the mother (and of course, the baby), will…

"Yes is meaningless if there is no way to say No."

Broken down by age and sex.

About domestic violence.

...and so few in Belgium?

My former colleague Vibeke (@GenderHopes) writes to her daughters.

From 0% to 50% of the 6 Maltese MEPs!

March is the cruellest month. Also, December.

A year of shouting back.

The great challenge for a senator isn't to go to Washington and represent the problems of his own family. It's to try to obtain the intellectual and moral perspective necessary to represent the problems of the people who don't have direct access to the corridors of power. Senators basically never have poor kids. That's somethin…

In brief: no.

Maria on the Magdalenes.

Prediction that SNP failure to back equal marriage means they think they'll lose the referendum

List of "fiction with third gender and or genderqueer characters".

"One of the best-kept secrets in Christianity".

"...the concept of abortionist saints is unique to Ireland, with no similar stories appearing in other European hagiographical texts."

Tansy looks at the early Guards books.

A first-person account.

Rebecca Watson: "I spoke out, then came the rape threats."

In that a well-known feminist is running for mayor.

Speaking out in one of the few ways they can.

Er, yes.

Micro-study of historical feminism in Manchester.

Everyone has linked to this Australian parliamentary debate, and rightly so.

Famous picture of an assault which nobody sees that way.

A political facebook meme that isn't true? How surprising. But I bet hardly anyone who reposted it bothered to check the facts.

An unexpected pregnancy at 44.

How to apologise.

International relations guru Anne-Marie Slaughter gets personal.