(From the excellent Editorial Cartoons of , from NewsWeek)
Some updates are coming this week. The structure of this blog is going to be overhauled a bit. It will include a blogroll of all the fine bloggers who have linked me, left comments, or just passed by.
Also, if you notice, the categories section of my blog includes several countries, which I’m going to organize a bit based on regions, i.e. Iraq, Iran, will go under Middle East, African countries under Africa, and so on. This will make the blog easier to navigate.
Finally, I’m going to add a “news section” to the website, where just links to news items on relevant topics - like women’s health and human rights - will be posted. Reading the blog statistics, I notice that most people that visit my blog based on search engine results (Google, Yahoo!, Altavista) are looking for specific information based on my postings (like the number of victims from natural disasters).
My wife is 4 months pregnant and we have been busy going to the doc and buying Christmas presents for all our relatives and such, so posting has been erratic. Trust me, I have a whole bunch of news to lined up, but my wife is always nagging at me, “what are you writing so much about in that computer of yours?”
In the mean time, go read the article by RH Reality Check, about the closing of Seattle’s (AWHC):
In its history, Aradia provided more than 54,000 women with abortion and gynecological health care services, trained more than 1,000 medical students in abortion care and served as a sort of public health prep-school for hundreds of staff women and volunteers. Aradia incorporated outreach, education and state-level legislative advocacy into its work, and became one of Washington State’s most energetic advocates for women’s health. Aradia helped pass the (our state’s version of Roe v. Wade ), worked to advocate for the , labored to , and all the while strove to for all women. AWHC was a remarkable force with which to be reckoned for more than three decades.
I know I’m not supposed to get on a pedestal, but when it comes to women’s health, at least my wife married a man who does not have the caveman, Bush-like type of mentality that seems to dominate the U.S. today. Of course, I’m a medical student that wants to be a pediatrician (with gynecologist a distant second place) so it’s easy, at least for myself, to worry about all this “women’s stuff”, because I strongly care about it. It’s going to be a part of my job, so if I want to be a good doctor I need to do more than just pretend that I care about the single mom that will come to my office asking for the professional, humane treatment that all patients deserve… unless , in which case I would refer Mr. Cheney to a physician that’s glad to treat him.
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