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August 2009

Crisis Pregnancy Centers Regularly Engage in Coercive Adoption Practices

by Cara August 31, 2009

Almost two years ago, I wrote about a distressing and eye-opening book called The Girls Who Went Away, which is about the women who surrendered their children for adoption under coercion in the years before legal abortion and when single or unwed parenting was ostracized. Most of the women who surrendered their children were threatened, [...]

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The Beatles: Rock Band: Top 10 Desired DLC Tracks

by Cara August 29, 2009

With less than 11 full days to go until 09.09.09 (OMG!), you shouldn’t be surprised that I’m inundating you with The Beatles: Rock Band coverage. Especially having played the Best Buy demo on Tuesday (unfortunately only on guitar — stupid Best Buy only having one instrument), I’m more excited now than I’ve ever been. Because [...]

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Does a Sexual Position Indicate Consent?

by Cara August 28, 2009

Posts have appeared recently at both Abyss2Hope and SAFER on a rape trial in which the most egregious rape apologism was committed not by a defense attorney, who can and probably should be expected to engage in such behavior, but the judge. Even worse, the judge interrogated the victim not during the course of the [...]

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Defense Attorney Calls Rape Victims “Whores,” and Worse

by Cara August 27, 2009

Trigger Warning Every single time I argue that a rape apologist defense attorney has hit a new low, I speak too soon. This time, the evidence that there was still further to sink just came at a particularly rapid speed, and with a particularly hard impact. Outside Charleston, West Virginia, a defense attorney defended a [...]

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Defense Attorneys Want Victim to Act Out Alleged Rape in Court

by Cara August 24, 2009

I’ve written about more disgusting instances of defense attorneys pulling all kinds of bizarre, misogynistic and unethical stunts during rape trials than I could even begin to count, let alone want to. But just when I think it’d be close to impossible for an attorney to sink even lower, such an instance arrives in my [...]

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Bill in the Bahamas Attempts to Outlaw Spousal Rape

by Cara August 22, 2009

Until the 1970s, spousal rape (or marital rape) was legal in most of the United States. It wasn’t until 1993 that the last U.S. state (North Carolina) made spousal rape a crime, and there are still numerous states that treat spousal rape as a lesser crime than rape committed by anyone else. Given this history [...]

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A Crime of Opportunity

by Cara August 20, 2009

Trigger Warning Three years ago in B.C., Canada, a woman woke up in the bed of the man in the image to the left. She was bleeding and bruised, and though she remembered going out for a night on town, she didn’t remember how she got in this bed, or what had happened to her. [...]

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New TSA Requirements Pose Risks to Trans Travelers

by Cara August 19, 2009

Those of us who have been to the airport in recent years know that it is a much larger hassle than it was in pre-9/11 days. (Remember back when friends and family could come with you and see you off at the gate?) But as is usually the case, it’s a much bigger hassle for [...]

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Anti-Sex Worker Bigotry Makes Its Way Into Rape Trial

by Cara August 17, 2009

Rape shield laws exist in the United States to prevent a defense attorney from questioning an alleged rape victim about her (or his) previous sexual history. And they exist for a damn good reason — because a sexual assault victim’s sexual history has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not she was actually raped. [...]

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The Beatles: Rock Band Track List Reactions

by Cara August 15, 2009

In the past several weeks, and with a mere 24 days left until the release date, we’ve received a whole ton of information about The Beatles: Rock Band. We’ve seen a preview of story mode, and learned some more about the drums and vocal trainers. We’ve seen some extra graphics, which just keep getting better. [...]

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