The Hand Mirror

In recent public debate about child poverty blame has been laid once again on parents having too many children.  Correspondents and opinion...

In a couple of months I will be transforming my life, and my body, again, through the addition hopefully of another baby.  To answer the sta...

This is a guest post by George Parker: 5 quick-fire reasons why I have a problem with the public health approach reported in the New Zeal...

It’s trite to say that books take you places. But true nonetheless. With books, you can disappear into other times, cultures, im...

Content warning:  Rants related to rape, victim blaming, rape apologists, and ridiculous sex education that helps no one, all contained with...

Thanks to Women's Health Action Trust for allowing me to re-publish this media release here.  It refers to this case in the media last w...

The raw statistics will be released today for abortions in the year to December 2011.  The full commentary and data doesn't come out unt...

I want to write on some related issues to this piece of bigotry by Rosemary McLeod, which I shall try and do later, but in the meantime: ...

By smkreig, cross-posted from The Comfort As many of you may remember, there was a heated debate earlier in the year about supposed ‘sec...

By pohutu, cross-posted from threewisewomen When you’re in a defensive crouch in the face of those on the march against reproductive righ...

A comment over at another post calling a pregnant woman a mother, and expecting duties and obligations to be fulfilled by the sheer action o...

I was so sure it would be the Tuesday.  No particular reason, just a hunch.  Due date was the first or second of September; the midwife s...

Make no mistake:  parental notification for teen abortions is actually about parental consent for teen abortions. Let's consider the b...

Many thanks to Foggy in Nelson for this contribution, on the eve of Mothers' Day.  Wanting to write this has driven FiN to set up her ow...

stratos has finally become available on freeview, and i'm loving it. not only the access to al-jazeera programmes, but the documentarie...

well, since periods have been so much the topic of discussion lately, i thought to myself that it must be time to do a post about them. most...

Cross posted The New Zealand Herald contacted me yesterday, wanting a comment on this invitation being sent out by Te Papa (the New Zealand ...

Cross posted When I was pregnant, I was very careful about how much alcohol I drank. From vague recollection, I think I had a couple of hal...