Join Me in Welcoming the New IJFAB Blog Editor, Alison Reiheld!

I am pleased to announce that Alison Reiheld is assuming Editorship of the IJFAB Blog. While I hope to still make the occasional contribution, I am stepping down as part of the journal’s transition to its new institutional home at … Continue reading

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Pro-Life Feminism: A Catholic feminist philosopher considers the consequences of punishing women for seeking abortions
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In 1986, an article was published in Commonweal encapsulating a view that to some people seems deeply incongruous.  The author of this article was Sidney Callahan and the article was entitled “A Case for Pro-Life Feminism.” The views Callahan laid out … Continue reading

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Anne Drapkin Lyerly, Carleigh Krubiner, and Ruth Faden pen a passionate call to look broadly at pregnant women’s health, through the lens of the Zika virus outbreak
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Over at the Baltimore Sun, Anne Drapkin Lyerly, Carleigh Krubiner, and Ruth Faden have penned an excellent op-ed on the need for further research on pregnant women.  They write: Pregnant women are at the crux of Zika’s most devastating consequences. … Continue reading

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Feminist Swag: Sellouts or sell out?
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Have you ever wanted to tell the world you are a feminist without speaking? Have you ever wanted a t-shirt that shows what intersectional feminism can by by depicting Rosie the riveter as women of color, women wearing headscarves, tall … Continue reading

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Bathrooms, Binaries, and Bioethics: Jamie Nelson takes on the American debate over gender and bathroom access
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With a blogpost over at Michigan State’s Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, feminist bioethicist Jamie Lindemann Nelson has dipped her toes into the acid bath that is the American debate over gender and bathroom access.  Nelson has … Continue reading

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The Brave Response to Anti-Abortion Legislation
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In the wake of the anti-abortion legislation we’ve seen from Utah, Indiana, Florida, Texas, and multiple other states, people across the country are forced once again to examine their beliefs around the legality and morality of the issue, especially in … Continue reading

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On The Costs of Simplistic Thinking: Reproductive Health Clinics Aren’t Just For Abortions
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The purpose of this post is not to argue against anti-abortion protesters. It is to narrowly and briefly explore what the harms done by principled, committed anti-abortion protesters when they assume that Reproductive Health Clinics, and procedures they perform, are … Continue reading

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When Does a Plea Become Pathology?
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NOTE: this author uses captions to describe the content of images so that visually impaired persons can have some access to the content of images through their audio readers. Readers with typical visual acuity may find some of the content … Continue reading

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Screaming into the Void and Other Annoyances: Public Intellectuals and the Disappearing Public

It is hard, even frustrating, to be a public intellectual these days.  Corey Robin concludes his thoughtful and timely piece about the status, function, and worries of, and about, public intellectuals by stating that We have the means, we have the material. What … Continue reading

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“The Official 2015 Feminist Killjoy Holiday Gift Guide”

Some of these are actually quite good–maybe even right for someone on your holiday gift list! Find the entire guide with links to the items at The Establishment. … Continue reading

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Getting Around The Rules To Study the Brain

This might be of interest to bioethicists, physicians, researchers, and so on.  What do you think? For better and long lasting erections it is very important for a person to purchase cheap viagra have a good and trusted site which … Continue reading

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“You’re scaring away all of our customers,” or Why Russia’s latest moral failure should not surprise you

So, a few days ago, this happened: Supermodel Natalia Vodianova has ignited a firestorm of discussion about the rights of the disabled in her native Russia after her autistic sister was kicked out of a Nizhny Novgorod cafe by the … Continue reading

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