Rape

I am really disturbed at the moment. My husband just received a text from his sister that her ex-boyfriend has been arrested in Portland for rape. I immediately told him to call her and he did.  Read More »

I am fighting back the anger on this one. I came across an article in CNSNews that really pissed me off. Basically a girl posing as a 13 year old went into a Planned Parenthood clinic and told a worker that she was pregnant and that the farther was a 31 year old.  Read More »

I had a very difficult conversation with a client on Monday. For the first time, she indicated to me a desire to part with her boyfriend, who is also in our program for homeless addicts. She feels threatened, however, not only because he has hit her in the past and, she feels, will do so again. She feels cornered because she doesn’t feel like she can report the abuse.  Read More »

Banned Books Review #19
Written by Poison_Ivy.  Read More »

In the past ten years, the sexual slave trade has been picking up dramatically in popularity. “Importing” women and children from other countries for the purpose of sex has grown to become the third largest money-maker for organized crime, with an estimated 14,500-17,500 slaves being shipped into the United States each year (Hodge, 2008).  Read More »

So, all day I have been formulating my anger and trying to find a cohesive way to put it into words without just writing up another rant filled with expletives and nonsensical phrases. I even see that we have a poll up about this particular topic; and for a short while, I had decided that I would leave it alone... move on, find something else to blog about.  Read More »

Regardless of what we think personally, the government has decided it needs to take part in what an individual woman should or should not do to/with her body in terms of pregnancy primarily. My question is why do they care so much?  Read More »